Contractor MLR Doctor: £650 per report
Volunteer MLR Doctors: Unpaid
Hours: A minimum of approximately 1 day per fortnight for a minimum of 2 years
Location: Newcastle
Closing date: 11th April 2025
Expected date of interviews: TBC
Job ref: VA739
About the role
Our Medico-legal Report service relies heavily on volunteer and contractor Doctors 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 claims and other legal processes. Successful candidates will work in a team of doctors spread across the country based in Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, and London.
You will have extensive clinical experience post-qualification as a doctor. Ideally, you will have completed post-graduate training in your specialty; however, if you have not completed this, but you can demonstrate the skills and competencies listed in the Person Specification, please get in touch to discuss.
Work patterns can be flexible, but please kindly note that we would need you to be available on a regular basis. Our standard reports typically take between 20-30 hours to produce, spread over 4-6 weeks.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK to be considered. 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.
About you
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.
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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