Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteer
- Grade
- Volunteer
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-8124985-VOL
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Erith Centre,
- Town
- Erith
- Closing
- 15/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Volunteer Psychology Assistant
Volunteer
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
1. Admin tasks related to the psychology team. E.g. adding referrals to our spreadsheet, sending out the acknowledgement letter
2. Compiling and printing out psychology resources for clients and groups e.g. psychoed for anxiety, writing up and formatting clients’ relapse prevention plans.
3. Supporting psychology groups within the service
4. Administering brief pre/post outcome measures for groups and other projects, inputting data into our spreadsheet and doing basic descriptive statistics on these
5. 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)
6. 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.
7. To gain experience in creating accessible written materials for clients
Working for our organisation
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re
- We Listen
- We Care
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
1. Admin tasks related to the psychology team. E.g. adding referrals to our spreadsheet, sending out the acknowledgement letter
2. Compiling and printing out psychology resources for clients and groups e.g. psychoed for anxiety, writing up and formatting clients’ relapse prevention plans.
3. Supporting psychology groups within the service
4. Administering brief pre/post outcome measures for groups and other projects, inputting data into our spreadsheet and doing basic descriptive statistics on these
5. 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)
6. 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.
7. To gain experience in creating accessible written materials for clients
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- a Knowledge of how to create charts, graphs and collate or summarise data
Skills
Essential criteria
- applicant must be calm, patient and respectful at all times.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of various IT packages is required
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Langford
- Job title
- Voluntary Services Development Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088368511
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