Clinical Psychologist

The Helen Bamber Foundation is looking for a Clinical Psychologist to join our therapy team to spearhead a new partnership with the BRC. The partnership aims to increase access to trauma focused interventions for those fleeing conflict (particularly the conflict in Ukraine), trafficking, torture and other forms of human cruelty and who find themselves in locations where they have little access to much needed mental health treatments. The BRC's Psychosocial Mental Health Team alongside the BRC' Refugee Support caseworkers will, in partnership with the Helen Bamber Foundation deliver direct casework, psychological assessment, formulation and diagnosis, and treatment support into two BRC Refugee Support service offices in Leicester and Derby over the course of two years.

As the Clinical Psychologist delivering the partnership with the BRC you will be based in two BRC Refugee Support services in Leicester and Derby but will remain part of the Helen Bamber Foundation Team. You will be responsible, with support from the Director of Therapy and Executive Director of Clinical and Counter-Trafficking, 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 in order to increase their capacity to support trauma survivors.

This role will include 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 who 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 the 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 monthly to participate in meetings, professional development and other activities (this travel will be reimbursed).

The Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid is an equal opportunities and Living Wage employer. We are committed to attracting and recruiting diverse candidates as we are keen to make sure that our staff, trustees, volunteers and ambassadors reflect the communities we serve and the wider community we work in at every level within the organisation. We particularly welcome applications from Minority Ethnicities.

Full time for two years and six months, applications for part-time welcome and we will consider one site per part-time position (extension of programme likely)
Salary
£46,000 p.a
Responsible to
Director of Therapy