Psychosexual Therapist/ psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a qualified psychosexual and relationship therapist or psychologist to work within The Royal Marsden Hospital's Adult Psychological Support Service (APSS). The post holder will provide direct clinical services to cancer patients and their partners, offering specialist advice and consultation to multidisciplinary teams. Key responsibilities include clinical supervision to trainees and colleagues, and contributing to service policy and development. This is a part-time position (0.4wte) requiring two days onsite per week across Chelsea and Sutton locations.
Essential criteria
- Post-Graduate Diploma level training in Psychosexual Therapy, accredited by COSRT
- AND Professional health care practitioner training such as nurse, occupational therapist, accredited by appropriate professional body AND
- Registered with COSRT/ BACP or other recognised psychological therapy professional body
- Post-Graduate Master's level training in Psychosexual Therapy, accredited by COSRT, or psychotherapy training
- Registered with COSRT/ BACP or other recognised therapy body
- Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical/ Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), accredited by the BPS
- Registered with HCPC
- Specialist assessment and therapy using an integrative psychosexual therapy approach incorporating CBT, Couple/ Systems Therapy & Biomedical management principles
- Specialist psychosexual assessment and treatment of a variety of client groups across the lifespan, presenting with a wide range of clinical severity
- Specialist psychosexual assessment and treatment of patients with a long-term and / or life limiting illness
- Collaborative work within multi-disciplinary teams within a hospital setting, and the ability to form good working relationships
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychosexual care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified clinician and within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working as a qualified psychosexual therapist within a multi-cultural setting
Desirable criteria
- Training and experience in couple's therapy.
- Service development in outpatient settings
- Specialist psychosexual assessment and treatment of patients with cancer
- Provision of supervision (group and 1:1) to trainee and qualified psychosexual therapists/ psychologists/ counsellors
- Teaching & training to psychological and other health care practitioners on psychosexual matters
- Evidence of research productivity
- Skills Abilities/knowledge
- Post-graduate level knowledge of Psychosexual Therapy
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychosexual assessment and intervention frequently requiring use of sustained and intense concentration
- A high-level ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively in written and oral format, to patients, their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside of NHS
- Skills in providing consultation and advice to other professional and non-professional groups
- Post-graduate level knowledge and experience in research design and methodology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by COSRT/ BPS/ BACP
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance to maintain high quality clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotional and distressing material
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Knowledge of legislation and implications for clinical practice
- Knowledge of theory related to couple's therapy
- Training in the supervision of psychosexual therapists/ psychologists/ counsellors
- Training in the delivery and process of supervision of other healthcare professionals, clinical nurse specialists
- Knowledge of psycho-oncology theory and practice of psychosexual and psychological therapies applied to cancer care settings
- An understanding of the impact of illness on patient's psychosexual and psychological wellbeing
- Enthusiasm for psychosexual therapy, its application to physical health care, specifically psycho-oncology, and a wish to continue to develop expertise
- Team player
- Able to be self-directive and act as an autonomous practitioner
- Ability to effectively manage competing demands
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to contain and understand the stress of others in a team
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, including audit, and service development
- Ability to provide appropriate support to carers and staff
- A commitment to keeping abreast of literature and of new developments in the field
- Computer literate (including Excel), and ability to use multi-media materials for presentations
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance and audit mechanisms to reflect, assess and maintain the effectiveness of clinical practice
- Ability to articulate and interpret the role of psychosexual therapy in local and national contexts
- Able to work on both sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role
- Able to adapt to a constantly changing environment and to respond under pressure
- Education/Qualifications
- Post-Graduate Diploma level training in Psychosexual Therapy, accredited by COSRT
- AND Professional health care practitioner training such as nurse, occupational therapist, accredited by appropriate professional body AND
- Registered with COSRT/ BACP or other recognised psychological therapy professional body
- Post-Graduate Master's level training in Psychosexual Therapy, accredited by COSRT, or psychotherapy training
- Registered with COSRT/ BACP or other recognised therapy body
- Post-Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical/ Counselling Psychology (or i
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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Psychosexual Therapist/ psychologist
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
We are looking for a psychosexual and relationship therapist, or psychologist/ psychotherapist with sex and relationship therapy experience, to work at The Royal Marsden Hospital.
We are looking for a 0.4wte, AfC band 7 qualified clinician. The role requires the postholder to be onsite 2 days each week (1 day in Chelsea and 1 day in Sutton).
The Adult Psychological Support Service (APSS) provides psychosexual and relationship therapy to cancer patients and their partners to manage the impact of cancer and its treatment on functioning and emotional intimacy.
As well as providing direct clinical services, you would provide specialist advice and consultation on patients' cancer related sexual and relationship difficulties to APSS, medical, nursing and AHP colleagues through multidisciplinary team meetings and attendance at clinics as appropriate. You would offer clinical supervision to trainees in the service; as well as to medical, nursing and AHP colleagues. You would also input to service policy and development.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified psychosexual and relationship therapy service to cancer patients, as partof the Adult Psychological Support Service (APSS), within a specialist cancer treatment centre at The Royal
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