Sex and Relationship Psychosexual Psychotherapist Team Leader

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and progressive Psychosexual Service providing excellent therapeutic intervention to the residents of Lancashire and Blackpool. The successful applicant will demonstrate highly experienced therapeutic and supervisory skills in addition to managerial and leadership expertise working closely within the team and alongside the service lead. Their managerial position will enable them not only to creatively contribute toward the provision of excellence in service delivery and service user experience and outcomes but also to be forward facing moving the service and the team toward positive change and development.

Main duties of the job:

• Formulation of a clear job plan combining therapeutic client work and clinical supervision alongside dedicated time to work with the service lead from a leadership/managerial perspective.
• 50% of the role will be direct team management and service development.

Working for our organisation:

SHARE is a dedicated team that have the ultimate best interest of the clients at the heart in all they do. The team is demonstrably professional and there is a tangible supportive team ethos despite the challenges that we experience geographically which restricts working together in venues. The therapist and administrative staff are supportive of each other and demonstrate team loyalty and cohesion. As a unit we understand expectations set and work tirelessly to reach audit and KPI targets working within the current financial landscape of the NHS. We try at all times to face challenges head on with a 'can do' approach and are extremely supportive, understanding the importance of individual development and service progression. We take staff well-being extremely seriously to ensure optimum engagement and role satisfaction.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Act as an expert practitioner in Psychosexual Therapy.
• Maintain a specific caseload and manage such reporting to the Principal Therapist.
• Work effectively with multidisciplinary colleagues to provide an efficient and high-quality standard of care for clients referred into the service.
• Maintain a high standard of personal clinical practice including access to regular supervision as specified by the College of Sex and Relationship Therapists (COSRT).
• Contribute to the maintenance of a positive and efficient service waiting list.
• Provide evidence of effective service delivery through ongoing monitoring and evaluation in line with key performance indicators.
• Support the governance and quality improvement agenda for the organisation; ensure supervision and Care Quality Commission standards and regulations are embedded in practice.
• Provide leadership for the service and advice, consultancy, teaching and training to colleagues within and outside the Trust.
• Contribute to the development of policies, procedures and protocols in relation to clinical intervention/practice and service management.
• Support the Head of Service to ensure the budgetary management for the service remains observed within the parameters set.
• Adhere to Trust clinical and management policies and procedures.
• Support innovation and change within clinical practice in line with Trust requirements, and emerging national priorities and guidance.
• Ensure that all clinical interventions carried out are evidence-based and clinically effective.
• Possess the skills and wide range of clinical knowledge to work as an autonomous practitioner to undertake independent, direct consultation and provision of care.
• Formulate, provide and evaluate intervention/treatment for complex patients including rationale for decision-making.
• Adopt the concept of customer care and challenge performance or interactions which fail to deliver a quality service to internal and external customers.
• Be a role model for the service demonstrating a clear understanding of service and organisational goals and represent the beliefs and values of the organisation.
• Comply with all training to identify and manage risk including safeguarding concerns, ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Maintain own professional registration and hold responsibility for own continued professional development, meeting requirements to maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrating evidence of reflective practice.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Post Graduate Qualification in Sex and Relationship Therapy awarded from COSRT accredited course.
• History of managerial experience at staff and/or service level.
• Qualification in clinical supervision and/or extensive experience in role to provide competencies to provide supervision.
• COSRT Accreditation.
• A comprehensive understanding of the range of presenting psychosexual and relationship issues and experience of direct client contact and provision of specialist therapeutic interventions.
• 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.
• An absolute understanding of confidentiality.
• An exact understanding of safeguarding and the integration of practice and procedure.
• Experience of assessing psychosexual referrals and the ability to differentiate between appropriate and non-appropriate referrals.
• Experience of working with a diverse client group with a wide range of presenting problems and significant levels of distress.
• Experience of multidisciplinary working.
• Experience of working with the dyad.
• Experience of applying research-based knowledge into appropriate practice.
• Experience of policy development and implementation.
• Previous experience of working within an NHS/healthcare setting.
• Experience of contributing toward service development, audit and outcome measures.
• Experience in managing change processes at an operational level.
• Ability to effectively contribute toward the management of a diverse caseload and effectively manage and contribute to the overall reduction of the service waiting list.
• Ability to ensure compliance with CQC requirements, manage and mitigate clinical risks.
• Recognised management qualification or at least 2 years experience of management.
• Evidence of awareness of current financial landscape in healthcare provision with financial and resource management experience.
• Experience of using service user outcomes and feedback to drive change.
• Supervisory experience.
• Registered or accredited psycho sexual Supervisor.