Psychosexual Therapist/Counsellor

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a psychosexual therapist to join our newly reconfigured Relationship and Sexual Service at the Porter Brook Clinic in Sheffield. We are ambitious in taking this service forward and our aim is to ensure the continued delivery of high quality, outstanding care to service users referred to us with relationship and sexual difficulties. We are developing innovative ways of working with partner organisations to expand our offer to service users. In addition, we are establishing trusted pathways with the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and IAPT so that integrated interventions can be provided to service users across a variety of settings. This means that whilst your key role will be to deliver psychosexual therapy to couples and individuals within the service, there will also be opportunities for multi-disciplinary working across departments and Trusts. The clinic has a high profile in delivering training to medical students and you will be able to participate in this as well as providing consultation to other professionals on psychosexual issues.

To apply you will need to have completed (or nearing completion) a psychosexual COSRT accredited training course as a psychosexual therapist and be registered with COSRT as a member, working towards accreditation; or be accredited by UKCP's College of Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapy.

Main duties of the job

As a psychosexual therapist, you will be responsible for assessing and implementing specialist, evidence-based interventions for service users referred into our service with sexual psychosexual difficulties. You will have a sound knowledge of the bio-psycho-social practice of psychosexual therapy and be able to demonstrate how you draw on models such as cognitive behavioural, systemic, person-centred and psychodynamic in an integrated way to inform your work. It is expected that you will have prior experience of working with the range of sexual and relationship issues that service users referred to a clinic such as ours are likely to present with. You must be confident and competent in delivering psychosexual therapy to both individuals and couples. We are keen to explore the potential of developing groupwork and experience in this is desirable. You will need to be able to work independently as well as part of a team. Innovative thinking, passion and enthusiasm are key qualities we are looking for as well as the capacity to work under pressure, using sustained concentration and drawing upon your own resources. Excellent clinical and managerial supervision will be provided to support you in your role. Your base would be within a vibrant and busy out-patient environment in a leafy area of the city, which has spacious and comfortable office and therapy space. We are keen to provide a flexible service, both in terms of face to face and remote working.

About us

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.

Date posted

11 October 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year pro rata for part-time position

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

457-22-4634307

Job locations

Porterbrook Clinic

Osborne Road

Sheffield

S119BF

Job description

Job responsibilities

General Requirements

To manage a caseload of clients using specialist skills and evidence based, client centred principles. To assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and review psychosexual interventions. Assessments to include a risk assessment and a collaborative formulation, shared with the service user, with an outline of the therapeutic treatment plan. To signpost or refer on to a more appropriate service or intervention, when the Relationship & Sexual Service is not best placed to meet the service users needs.

To meet patient needs by working according to demand. To offer one early appointment and one late appointment per week, or two late appointments per week (outside 9-5pm working hours) and Saturday working on occasion if required.

To offer professional advice to referrers and other professionals on psychosexual issues and suitability of referrals.

To liaise with GP referrers regarding concerns and treatment outcome.

To use data, outcome measures and supervision to reflect, guide and improve your own practice.

Principal Duties

To provide assessment and psychosexual counselling to those using the service.

To formulate and implement psychosexual treatment plans.

To have autonomous professional responsibility for clients referred.

To deliver psychosexual therapy to couples, individuals and possibly groups.

To formulate and implement a counselling contract based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users presenting issues.

To implement specialist client centred interventions for individuals, couples and/or groups, based on a collaborative formulation of the clients difficulties, to achieve therapeutic goals.

Torecognise and assessrisk(including child and vulnerable adult protection)and raise matters in line with SHSC policy.

To manage all aspects of arranging and working with interpreters whenassessed as necessaryfor the Counselling contract.

Tosensitivelycommunicate complex information to clients to encourage therapeutic engagement.

To ensure record keeping in line with SHSC standard operating procedures. This includescontemporaneousnotes completed within 24 hours on the agreed patient record system, checking SHSC patientadministrationsystem prior to taking on new patients to check any risk or suitability issues and to send a discharge summary to GP practices once completed treatment.

Tomaintaina high levelof clinical practice by attending individual and groupsupervision in accordance with professional practice UKCP and/or CORST and Trust guidelines.

To provide consultation and support to referrers and other professional colleagues regarding the suitability of psychosexual therapy for service users.

Work daily online or face to face, offering psychosexual therapy to individuals and/or couples to service users.

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post-holders professional and service manager(s).

To maintain active engagement with current developments in the field of psychosexual therapy and related disciplines.

To maintain professional registration and/or accreditation with UKCP and/or CORST.

To contribute to training provided by the Relationship & Sexual service, including the ongoing development and delivery of a training programme to SHSC staff.

To ensure all mandatory training is up to date in line with service protocol.