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GP (CMAGIC Gender Identity Service) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £73,113 - £110,330 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L2 2AF |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6908520/350-MED6908520 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a GP with a special interest in improving health care to those service users who identity as Trans or Non-Binary.
This post will involve working within an established team of medics, nurses and AHP's, providing assessment, diagnosis and interventions to service users. An effective MDT with support from Endocrinology and national Leads for Gender Healthcare assists with complex cases and decision making. This is coupled with training in this specialist area from the RCP.
The role is predominantly delivered digitally and as such, applicants who wish to work remotely will be considered.
The Cheshire and Merseyside Area Gender Identity Collaborative (CMAGIC), delivered by Mersey Care is an NHSE 2 year pilot and will provide comprehensive primary care based medical interventions for those who identify as Transgender, Non-Binary or Gender Incongruent. We are looking to appoint a GP or GP's providing2 sessions per week, where the post-holder will provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and medical interventions, alongside referring or signposting to appropriate services and agencies, such as Endocrinology, SALT and Psychology etc.
Applicants must be fully registered with the GMC and on the GMC’s GP Register. Applicants should have proven experience, or a specialist interest in working with people with gender dysphoria and a clinical background appropriate for the prescribing and monitoring of relevant medical interventions, such as hormone therapy.
For informal discussions regarding this post please contact Ryan Donaghy, Operational Lead, Mersey Care NHS Trust:
Email:ryan.donaghy@merseycare.nhs.uk, Tel: 07760 998771
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
• To provide high quality assessment of need and plan of interventions for people who identify as Trans, Non-Binary or Gender Variant.
• To refer to appropriate associated services ie Psychology/Endocrinology, as necessary, in a timely manner.
• Liaise with the service user’s registered general practitioner, as required, to support shared care during the patient journey.
• To maintain appropriate standards of record keeping for each individual referred.
• To suggest alternative sources of help and refer where appropriate.
• To maintain professional updating through professional body and be subject to Trust’s annual appraisal policies.
• To participate in peer supervision and training
• Undertake to operate clinical services either remotely or in clinic as required by the service. Delivery of this during extended hours is desirable, but will remain a matter for negotiation between individual clinicians and the clinical director.
• To support and be an active member of the wider collaborative network, supporting persons who identify themselves as Trans, Non-Binary or Gender Variant.
This advert closes on Wednesday 15 Jan 2025