Overview
Join a powerful and passionate human rights organisation and winner of the UK charities 2023 Overall Award for Excellence. This included successfully challenging the UK government on the lawfulness of the Rwanda scheme for people seeking asylum and leading a multichannel, survivor-led campaign to directly compel 4 out of the 6 airlines to rule themselves out of flying refugees to Rwanda, including survivors of torture.
About the role
This is a wide-ranging position, and your key areas of responsibility will include:
- Support a multi-disciplinary team, including paid staff and volunteers from different professions and disciplines, and provide professional and clinical supervision to qualified clinicians and trainees.
- Provide remote clinical supervision, support and advice as well as line management and guidance around risk and safeguarding to clinicians across other centres as required.
- Ensure Freedom from Torture’s clinical model continues to be fully rolled out, with particular emphasis on survivor empowerment and evidence-based practice for addressing PTSD and other mental health impacts of torture.
- Champion people development and influence delivery of evidence-based practice, clinical standards, quality initiatives and audit-based services.
- Formulate psychological treatment and management plans for survivors of torture and provide psychological treatment for a caseload, using a range of psychological interventions in line with our clinical pathway that draws on evidence-based models for the treatment of survivors of torture.
- Be an effective role model and leader to encourage, develop and enhance skills of others.
Qualifications & Experience
To be considered for this role you must fulfil the professional qualification section of the person specification.
- Post-qualification experience of using evidence-based trauma-focused therapy models.
- Professional experience of working with clients with complex PTSD.
- Clear understanding of the experience of refugees and people seeking asylum, both pre-flight and living in exile.
- Previous management and supervision experience with demonstrable examples of leading and influencing clinical teams within community or healthcare settings.
- Knowledge of appropriate clinical standards and external regulatory bodies.
- Sound financial awareness and experience of balancing quality care against budgetary parameters.
Benefits & Salary
We offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and a 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution). The full-time salary range is Psychological Therapist £48,734 – £56,531, Clinical Psychologist £56,700 – £66,772.
Additional information: we also offer access to high quality clinical supervision and a clinical caseload alongside your management practice. Freedom from Torture is committed to showing the salary for all advertised roles and not negotiating salaries for roles, to prevent structural inequality.
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