Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist

TN United Kingdom; Derby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

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Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist, Derby

Client:

Helen Bamber Foundation Group (Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid)

Location:

Derby

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

9dd7b0e4f828

Job Views:

2

Posted:

28.03.2025

Expiry Date:

12.05.2025

Job Description:

As the Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist delivering the partnership with the British Red Cross, you will be based in two BRC Refugee Support services in Leicester and Derby while remaining part of the Helen Bamber Foundation Team. You will be responsible, with support from the senior Helen Bamber Foundation clinical team, for delivering assessments of individuals referred by the BRC Senior Psychosocial Practitioner. You will support effective referrals into local mental health services and, where treatment cannot be provided elsewhere and would have significant benefits, deliver a range of therapeutic interventions to a small number of BRC clients. You will provide and support outreach and training of local health care providers to increase their capacity to support trauma survivors.

This role will include the delivery of highly specialised psychological assessments for both medico-legal and clinical purposes, provision of appropriate evidence-based therapies, delivery of training to local mental health providers as well as to staff from non-clinical backgrounds who have significant client contact, internal relationship and partnership building, monitoring of outcomes, and potentially the supervision of a trainee clinical psychologist on a final year specialist placement. The role will include input into partnership development, policy, research, and fundraising.

We are looking for someone who is committed to working therapeutically with individuals who have experienced human rights abuses and have developed trauma spectrum disorders as a result. In addition to proven experience in working therapeutically with this client group, the candidate will have a passion for human rights work beyond individual client work and a desire to contribute to effecting change at a policy level. This role requires the ability to react and respond creatively and appropriately to the needs of the service and the partnership. You will be required to travel to London occasionally to participate in meetings, professional development, and other activities (this travel will be reimbursed).

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Provide specialist psychological assessments and deliver psychological therapies to clients of the BRC Refugee Support services in Leicester and Derby (and where approved other services in the East Midlands);
2. Contribute to the monitoring of activity and outcomes from the partnership;
3. Work closely with the BRC Senior Psychosocial Practitioner to develop training and outreach for the local mental health providers and where appropriate the BRC Refugee Support service teams;
4. Train in the preparation of medico-legal reports and contribute to the preparation of these reports for clients of the East Midlands BRC Refugee Support services;
5. Develop and carry out audits and research projects relevant to the Helen Bamber Foundation or the partnership (in collaboration with the BRC Senior Psychological Practitioner and the Director of Therapy and Executive Director of Clinical and Counter-Trafficking);
6. Provide internal and external training in collaboration with the HBF clinical management team;
7. Supervise junior staff; and
8. Liaise with other non-statutory and statutory organisations on matters of clinical care and policy.
9. Where applicable, contribute to policy and position statements with other members of the Helen Bamber Foundation and the British Red Cross and represent the partnership at conferences and other events.