Psychosexual Therapist

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

We are seeking dedicated and skilled Psychosexual Therapists to join our dynamic team.  This is a hybrid role, primarily delivered remotely. However, you are expected to be able to provide face-to-face sessions (subject to clinic room availability) in Kent, The service currently operates in multiple locations across Kent, including Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Gravesend, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Margate.

About the Service: Our Psychosexual Therapy Service offers time-limited, structured therapy to individuals and couples experiencing sexual difficulties, as well as those with concerns around sexuality or gender. We work across a range of delivery modes, with an emphasis on solution-focused therapy.

Main duties of the job

As a Psychosexual Therapist, you’ll be responsible for:

• Managing a complex caseload independently, including assessing and delivering brief therapy
• Working with interpreters or advocates where necessary
• Safeguarding adults and children through appropriate risk management
• Contributing to service development and evaluation
• Maintaining accurate records in line with governance standards

About You To apply, you should have:

• A postgraduate diploma in Psychosexual Therapy (validated by COSRT or IPM)
• COSRT accreditation, or be actively working towards it
• A minimum of 200 hours of supervised clinical practice
• Experience in delivering brief, time-limited psychotherapy
• Knowledge of psychosexual therapeutic approaches, sexual health, gender, and sexuality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

You must be registered with a professional body and adhere to its code of conduct. A full UK driving licence and the ability to travel (if face-to-face work is agreed) is required.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship.  Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

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