# Volunteer Psychology Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Dartford
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Contract type:** Voluntary
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-15T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01T14:22:22.449Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Erith/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Volunteer/Volunteer-v8124985
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8124985?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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

## Job Details

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

## Job Description

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

## Responsibilities

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

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

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847)
- [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659)
- [volunteer psychology assistant (pdf, 136.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10421655)
- [volunteer psychology assistant (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10421654)
- [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656)

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