Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

• Job Purpose
• To work autonomously as a Senior Psychosexual Clinical or Counselling Psychologist within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
• To deliver systematic provision of a highly specialist short and medium-term psychosexual therapy service to individuals and couples referred to the service.
• To offer highly specialist advice and consultation to other health professionals.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
• To implement teaching and training within the service and to outside agencies if required.
• To contribute to policy development and implementation within the Service.
• To undertake advanced and highly specialist continuing professional development in psychosexual therapy.
• Communications and
• Working

Relationships: Communication with: Clinical Service Manager Clinical and Management supervisors Other clinical colleagues Business Administrator Trainees To work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting

Key Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the management and treatment, by psychosexual therapy, of patients with complex sexual problems, and manage difficult intimate situations with sensitivity, skill and an understanding of anatomy, physiology and psychology underlying sexual dysfunction.
• Manage, independently and autonomously, the organisation of highly complex clinical caseload in line with targets agreed with the Clinical Service Manager.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry and recording (including patient journey).
• Undertake highly specialised assessments of referrals for psychosexual psychotherapy, under supervision, based upon knowledge, understanding, and the integration of psychotherapeutic concepts and evidence-based practice and the range of treatments available.

This will involve a) determining whether psychosexual psychotherapy would be an appropriate treatment; b) when psychosexual psychotherapy is deemed the treatment of choice, formulating a care plan that recommends a mode of treatment, i. e. couple, individual, time-limited; c) communicate to patients, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, including formulations of the patients difficulties and the basis for treatment recommendations; d) consult with and communicate to referrers and other clinicians a specialist psychosexual formulation of the patients difficulties, as well as recommendations for their future management and treatment.

Where this is appropriate, recommend alternative treatment and support, taking into account other treatment options and therapeutic models.

• Undertake specialised risk assessments and risk management with individual patients in line with the principles of psychosexual psychotherapy and provide advice on aspects of risk to other clinicians and services, as necessary.
• Clinical Teaching, Training and

Supervision: a) participate in planning, organising other teaching and training activities of the service such as workshops, conference presentations and lectures, as required; b) receive regular, clinical, management and professional supervision from a more senior psychotherapist according to professional and Trust guidelines; c) provide clinical supervision to junior and trainee psychologists for all aspects of their work; d) plan and undertake teaching and training of pre-and post-qualification psychologists or psychotherapists and specialised training to other professions as required.

• Liaise, as appropriate, with clinicians and managers outside of the service regarding clinical and other issues, while remaining within the psychotherapeutic boundaries and parameters.
• Research and
• Service

Development: a) lead on/assist in the development and maintenance of a strong research culture in order to encourage the critical evaluation of practice and take part in ongoing research that may lead to publication. b) utilise theory, current literature and research to support evidence-based practice in direct clinical work, and in consultations with other clinicians and staff groups. c) keep up to date with advanced and specialist research in the field of individual and couple psychosexual psychotherapy regarding the understanding of human sexuality and development, and the principles of psychosexual practice. d) communicate, disseminate and share research information, as appropriate, with other clinicians, so that clinical practice is appropriately informed by current developments in the field. e) utilise research in the writing of academic papers, as an aspect of advanced and highly specialist continuing professional development.

• Clinical

Governance: a) assist in the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD, training and development programmes. b) initiate and participate in audit, service evaluation and clinical outcome measures with colleagues within the service and the Trust to help develop and improve services to patients. c) work in accordance with the principles of psychosexual psychotherapy and within the parameters of good practice, in accordance with the policies and procedures of the clinical Governance Framework, and, where necessary, seek advice regarding these matters. d) maintain high standards of clinical and professional practice by undergoing continuous professional development in accordance with the requirements of the HCPC/COSRT/BABCP and the Trusts terms and conditions and the services Clinical Governance Framework.

• Assist in the continuing development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service, including advising clinicians and managers on aspects of psychosexual therapy when these interface with national and local organisational Trust issues.
• Contribute significantly to policy development and implementation within the Service.
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