Band 7 Psychosexual Therapist

Job Summary

Psychosexual Therapist COSRT/BACP/UKCP accredited

Umbrella is a unique comprehensive partnership of local service providers including community pharmacists, general practitioners, third sector and other partners, NHS Trusts and Birmingham City Council Services.

Umbrella Sexual Health offers a fully integrated and accessible service to patients throughout Birmingham and Solihull, encompassing all aspects of sexual health.

We are looking to recruit a qualified part-time (18.75hrs) Psychosexual Therapist to join our dynamic and innovative team. The successful candidate will have experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team offering a holistic approach to care and understand the treatment and management of psychosexual problems, including initial diagnostic assessment for those who feel they have gender dysphoria.

The successful applicant should have excellent communication skills and be able to work as part of team. They should be flexible and able to adapt to the needs of the service and have the ability to work autonomously.

For Further Details / Informal Visits Contact

Natasha Anderson-Foster &Jara Phattey

Natasha.Anderson@uhb.nhs.uk

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post Graduate Qualification in Sex and Relationship Therapy awarded from COSRT accredited course
• COSRT accreditation or working towards or UKCP registered

Desirable

• MSC Psychosexual Therapy
• Desirable Qualification in clinical supervision and/or extensive experience in role to provide competencies to provide supervision
• Trauma informed therapeutic model

Experience

Essential

A comprehensive understanding of the range of presenting psychosexual and relationship issues and experience of direct client contact and provision of specialist therapeutic interventions.

good and effective understanding of the range of psychosexual therapeutic interventions and their application

A good understanding of physiological and psychological sexual disorder and the ability to develop a framework of care that identifies the predisposing, precipitating and maintaining factors using evidence based theoretical knowledge

A sound understanding of human sexuality

An absolute understanding of confidentiality.

An exact understanding of safeguarding and the integration of practise and procedure

Experience of assessing psychosexual referrals and the ability to differentiate between appropriate and non-appropriate referrals

Experience of working with clients presenting with a range of sex and relationship difficulties

Experience of working with a diverse client group with a wide range of presenting problems and significant levels of distress

Experience of using a range of therapeutic interventions and approaches with clients with sexual disorder

Experience of multidisciplinary working

Experience of applying research-based knowledge into appropriate practice

Experience of policy development and implementation

Experience of regular supervised practice including receipt and provision of clinical supervision in a variety of settings i.e. peer, individual and group

Experience of teaching/mentoring less experienced qualified or trainee therapists

Desirable

Previous experience of working within an NHS/healthcare setting

Experience of contributing toward service development, audit and outcome measures

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Professional appearance
• Displays genuine interest in the post applied for
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Caring and approachable
• May be required to work cross site
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

• Jara Phattey
• jara.phattey@uhb.nhs.uk
• 07500443174
• Pay scheme
• Agenda for Change
• Band
• Band 7
• Salary
• £49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
• Contract
• Permanent
• Working pattern
• Part-Time, Flexible Working
• Reference number
• 304-1103006
• Job locations
• Solihull Hospital
• Lode Ln
• Solihull
• West Midlands
• B91 2JL
• Attachments

Job Description

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