Job Opportunity
Job Description: Indigo Counsellor
Special Terms: Full-time, permanent Hybrid working (ideally two days in our office in
Manchester for collaborative work)
Salary: £29,761.62 + 10% pension
Accountable to: Indigo Lead Counsellor
Accountable for: N/A
Closing Date: 13th May
Interview Date: 30th May
(We appreciate there will be a short turnaround and therefore have been advertising the interview date in advance so pre-emptive availability can be organised.)
Indigo Gender Service is an NHS commissioned primary care service for trans and non-binary
people in Greater Manchester. A collaborative, innovative model of care between the LGBT
Foundation and gtd healthcare, setting the national standard for a pioneering, localised and
person-centred primary care led partnership that enables trans, non-binary and gender variant
people to reach their full potential.
Your role will be to provide psychological therapy treatment and mental wellbeing support for
trans, non-binary and gender variant people, as well as carrying out associated administrative
duties. You will work closely with other members of Indigo Gender Service, such as Care
Navigators, to deliver on the core responsibilities of the Greater Manchester trans health service
specification. You will have good knowledge of holistic care interventions in a trans health
setting and robust experience of supporting trans and gender non-conforming people as a
therapist.
Indigo Gender Service is part of the Go-To-Doc (gtd) Healthcare family, so whilst you are
employed by the LGBT Foundation, you will have connections with gtd. gtd healthcare is a
values-driven, not-for-profit provider of primary care, urgent care and out-of-hours dental
services across North West England. Led by a clinical Board, the organisation has been
providing safe and high-quality care to patients for more than 20 years. Importantly, gtd aligns
itself with the NHS and embraces the ethos of social enterprise, reinvesting surpluses
generated back into our services.
The Indigo partnership involves close working with care navigators, speech and language
therapists, psychotherapists and psychologists from LGBT Foundation, and Nottingham Centre
for Transgender Health.
As this role focuses on working for a service specifically designed by and for trans and non-binary communities, we believe lived experience of being trans and/or non-binary and having
experienced NHS gender transition services will be hugely valuable to the role.
Our values and behaviours are an important part of who we are. We feel it is essential to get the
right people to work with us, so these values need to be as important to you as they are to us.
Trans people are the experts of their own experience – our services are trans led, with trans and
non-binary people guiding and feeding into them at all levels.
