Band 7 Psychosexual Therapist
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustSolihull, West Midlands
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust based in Solihull. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515. It is an Band 7 post. Applications close on 27 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Psychosexual Therapist COSRT/BACP/UKCP accredited Umbrella is a unique comprehensive partnership of local service providers including community pharma...
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Essential: - *Post Graduate Qualification in Sex and Relationship Therapy awarded from COSRT accredited course; - *COSRT accreditation or working towards or UKCP registered
Desirable: - *MSC Psychosexual Therapy; - *Desirable Qualification in clinical supervision and/or extensive experience in role to provide competencies to provide supervision; - *Trauma informed therapeutic model
Essential: - A comprehensive understanding of the range of presenting psychosexual and relationship issues and experience of direct client contact and provision of specialist therapeutic interventions.; - good and effective understanding of the range of psychosexual therapeutic interventions and their application; - 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; - A sound understanding of human sexuality; - An absolute understanding of confidentiality.; - An exact understanding of safeguarding and the integration of practise and procedure; - Experience of assessing psychosexual referrals and the ability to differentiate between appropriate and non-appropriate referrals; - Experience of working with clients presenting with a range of sex and relationship difficulties; - Experience of working with a diverse client group with a wide range of presenting problems and significant levels of distress; - Experience of using a range of therapeutic interventions and approaches with clients with sexual disorder; - Experience of multidisciplinary working; - Experience of applying research-based knowledge into appropriate practice; - Experience of policy development and implementation; - Experience of regular supervised practice including receipt and provision of clinical supervision in a variety of settings i.e. peer, individual and group; - Experience of teaching/mentoring less experienced qualified or trainee therapists
Desirable: - Previous experience of working within an NHS/healthcare setting; - Experience of contributing toward service development, audit and outcome measures
Essential: - Professional appearance; - Displays genuine interest in the post applied for; - Positive and enthusiastic attitude; - Caring and approachable; - May be required to work cross site
How this role compares
We hold 865 NHS vacancies in West Midlands that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £34,428. This role pays more than about 71% of them.
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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has 64 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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