Psychosexual Therapist/ psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Specialist assessment and therapy using an integrative psychosexual therapy approach incorporating CBT, Couple/ Systems Therapy & Biomedical management principles

• Experience

  Specialist psychosexual assessment and treatment of a variety of client groups across the lifespan, presenting with a wide range of clinical severity

• Experience

  Specialist psychosexual assessment and treatment of patients with a long-term and / or life limiting illness

• Experience

  Collaborative work within multi-disciplinary teams within a hospital setting, and the ability to form good working relationships

• Experience

  Exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychosexual care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified clinician and within a multi-disciplinary team

• Experience

  Experience of working as a qualified psychosexual therapist within a multi-cultural setting

• Other Requirements

  Enthusiasm for psychosexual therapy, its application to physical health care, specifically psycho-oncology, and a wish to continue to develop expertise

• Other Requirements

  Team player

• Other Requirements

  Able to be self-directive and act as an autonomous practitioner

• Other Requirements

  Ability to effectively manage competing demands

• Other Requirements

  Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to contain and understand the stress of others in a team

• Other Requirements

  Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Other Requirements

  A commitment to the evaluation of services, including audit, and service development

• Other Requirements

  Ability to provide appropriate support to carers and staff

• Other Requirements

  A commitment to keeping abreast of literature and of new developments in the field

• Other Requirements

  Computer literate (including Excel), and ability to use multi-media materials for presentations

• Other Requirements

  Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance and audit mechanisms to reflect, assess and maintain the effectiveness of clinical practice

• Other Requirements

  Ability to articulate and interpret the role of psychosexual therapy in local and national contexts

• Other Requirements

  Able to work on both sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role

• Other Requirements

  Able to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to respond under pressure

• Education/Qualifications

  Post-Graduate Diploma level training in Psychosexual Therapy, accredited by COSRT

• Education/Qualifications

  AND Professional health care practitioner training such as nurse, occupational therapist, accredited by appropriate professional body AND

• Education/Qualifications

  Registered with COSRT/ BACP or other recognised psychological therapy professional body

• Education/Qualifications

  Post-Graduate Master’s level training in Psychosexual Therapy, accredited by COSRT, or psychotherapy training

• Education/Qualifications

  Registered with COSRT/ BACP or other recognised therapy body

• Education/Qualifications

  Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical/ Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), accredited by the BPS

• Education/Qualifications

  Registered with HCPC

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Post-graduate level knowledge of Psychosexual Therapy

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Skills in the use of complex methods of psychosexual assessment and intervention frequently requiring use of sustained and intense concentration

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  A high-level ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively in written and oral format, to patients, their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside of NHS

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Skills in providing consultation and advice to other professional and non-professional groups

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Post-graduate level knowledge and experience in research design and methodology

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by COSRT/ BPS/ BACP

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotional and distressing material

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

• Skills Abilities/knowledge

  Knowledge of legislation and implications for clinical practice