Medico-Legal Reports Psychologists (Contractor & Volunteer)
Contractor MLR Psychologists: £450 per medico-legal report, sliding scale for other types of report
Volunteer MLR Psychologists: Unpaid
Hours: A minimum of approximately 1 day per fortnight for a minimum of 2 years
Location: Sheffield, attached to Manchester centre. Some work may be remote.
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Expected date of interviews: TBC
Mandatory training: An in-person training will be held in Manchester in Spring/Summer 2025– dates to be confirmed.
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Freedom from Torture is the Winner of the Overall Award for Excellence and the top prize for Campaigns and Advocacy at the 2023 Charity Awards.
We have an exciting opportunity for MLR Psychologists to join our organisation.
MLR Service
Our Medico-legal Report service relies heavily on volunteer and contractor clinicians who give their time and skills to provide clinical assessments of torture and produce medico-legal reports on clients, documenting evidence of torture and ill-treatment, which are used as evidence in survivors’ asylum claim and other legal processes. Successful candidates will work in a team of clinicians spread across all 5 centres: Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, and London.
You will have extensive clinical experience post-qualification as a psychologist. Work patterns can be flexible but please kindly note that we would need you to be available on a regular basis.
To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click here.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact our Head of MLR Service: Janine Bonnet jbonnet@freedomfromtorture.org
About you
Please note a CV and a cover letter addressing the job description and person specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.
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 account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.
We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.
Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS/PVG disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
No agencies please.
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