Clinical Lead, Adult Team Manager

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. Would you like to use your clinical skills to lead a team who provide tailored psychological therapies to help improve the lives and wellbeing of survivors of torture and organised violence? We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychological Lead to work with an innovative and friendly multidisciplinary adult team at our London Centre. You will manage and coordinate a team of highly skilled and dedicated clinicians, in the service delivery of a range of NICE guideline recommended therapy interventions, offered to our clients, who are survivors of torture and organised violence. You will report to the Head of Clinical Services, London and operate as an integral part of the London Clinical Services Team. This is an exciting chance to join us as we place survivor empowerment and movement building at the heart of our strategy, it is based in a centre specifically designed to be a safe and welcoming environment for survivors.<br>About the role<br>This is a wide-ranging position, and your key areas of responsibility will include:<br>To manage 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 in the service including, clinical/counselling psychologists.<br>This role may also include providing remote clinical supervision, support and advice as well as line management and guidance around risk and safeguarding to clinicians across our other centres as required.<br>To ensure that 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.<br>Championing people development as well as influencing delivery of evidence‑based practice, clinical standards, quality initiatives and audit‑based services.<br>To formulate psychological treatment and management plans for survivors of torture and to provide psychological treatment for a small caseload, using a range of psychological interventions in line with our clinical pathway that draws on a range of evidence based models for the treatment of survivors of torture.<br>Being an effective role model and leader to encourage, develop and enhance skills of others.<br>This is an important role within Freedom from Torture. To be successful in this role you must have a high level of commitment to maintaining excellent standards of client care and service delivery. It is a key requirement that you must have knowledge of appropriate clinical standards and external regulatory bodies. You must also have sound financial awareness and experience of balancing the provision of quality care against budgetary parameters.<br>Qualifications<br>To be considered for this role you must be a Psychologist registered with HCPC and have qualified with a doctorate or equivalent in either clinical or counselling psychology. You must have professional experience of working with clients with complex PTSD and have post‑qualification experience of using evidence‑based trauma focused therapy models. It is essential that you have a clear understanding of the experience of refugees and people seeking asylum, both in terms of pre‑flight experience and the experience of living in exile. You must have previous management and supervision experience and be able to provide demonstrable examples of how you have successfully led and influenced clinical teams within community or health care settings.<br>You will also have the opportunity to work closely with the Head of Clinical Services and to attend a range of forums and working groups to support the clinical development of Freedom from Torture.<br>Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to Salary: GBP 46000 - 52000 per year

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