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Volunteer Psychology Assistant


Location
Dartford, England
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Deadline
15 Jul 2026
Contract Type
Voluntary
Posted Date
01 Jul 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Job overview

The post holder will have the opportunity of working alongside psychologists and therapists in the Bexley ICMP Psychology team.

Specific opportunities and roles include supporting with admin tasks around referrals and appointments, creating and printing psychology resources for clients and groups, administering and analysis of outcome measures, and supporting the running of psychology groups

Main duties of the job

  • Admin tasks related to the psychology team. E.g. adding referrals to our spreadsheet, sending out the acknowledgement letter
  • Compiling and printing out psychology resources for clients and groups e.g. psychoed for anxiety, writing up and formatting clients’ relapse prevention plans.
  • Supporting psychology groups within the service
  • Administering brief pre/post outcome measures for groups and other projects, inputting data into our spreadsheet and doing basic descriptive statistics on these
  • If deemed appropriate, calling clients to remind them of appointments or check if they still want to access psychology (under direct supervision of a clinical psychologist)
  • To gain experience in being with clients’ experience distress in a supervised way through supporting our psychology groups and, if deemed appropriate, through supervised phone calls to clients.
  • To gain experience in creating accessible written materials for clients

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will have the opportunity of working alongside psychologists and therapists in the Bexley ICMP Psychology team.

Specific opportunities and roles include supporting with admin tasks around referrals and appointments, creating and printing psychology resources for clients and groups, administering and analysis of outcome measures, and supporting the running of psychology groups

  • Admin tasks related to the psychology team. E.g. adding referrals to our spreadsheet, sending out the acknowledgement letter
  • Compiling and printing out psychology resources for clients and groups e.g. psychoed for anxiety, writing up and formatting clients’ relapse prevention plans.
  • Supporting psychology groups within the service
  • Administering brief pre/post outcome measures for groups and other projects, inputting data into our spreadsheet and doing basic descriptive statistics on these
  • If deemed appropriate, calling clients to remind them of appointments or check if they still want to access psychology (under direct supervision of a clinical psychologist)
  • To gain experience in being with clients’ experience distress in a supervised way through supporting our psychology groups and, if deemed appropriate, through supervised phone calls to clients.
  • To gain experience in creating accessible written materials for clients

Person specification

Skills

Essential

  • applicant must be calm, patient and respectful at all times.

Knowledge

Essential

  • a Knowledge of how to create charts, graphs and collate or summarise data

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of various IT packages is required

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This advert is for Volunteer Psychology Assistant with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Dartford, London, England. It is listed as a Healthcare support worker role. The contract type is Voluntary. The application deadline is 15 Jul 2026.

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