Research Assistant - England South
Based at our hub in England
Status: Permanent
Salary: Band 5, £31,049 - £37,996, per annum, dependent on experience, plus 5% Outer London Fringe Allowance
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 16:30, hybrid, 2 days in office
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About Us:
Combat Stress is the UK’s leading mental health charity for veterans. For over a century, we’ve been helping former service personnel deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from military service. We have teams across the UK providing online and in-person treatment and support, depending on the individual’s needs and circumstances of those who need us.
About the role:
This is an exciting role to join the Combat Stress Research Department as a Research Assistant. The role is supporting the research department and will include getting involved with a number of different research project and working to support the dissemination of research findings both internally within Combat Stress and externally.
Key responsibilities of the role will include:
- Provide administrative support to research department
- Liaise between the Research Department and other departments within Combat Stress
- Clinical teams to facilitate recruitment of participants for clinical research studies.
- Support with collection and cleaning of data to support research activities
- To support the writing up of research data for peer-reviewed publication
- Conduct literature reviews to support the research activities of the department
- To represent Combat Stress at external and internal research meetings
- To support the dissemination of research findings
- To help translate research findings into layperson summaries
- To manage the research section of the Combat Stress website
- Support the running of the International Veterans Dataset Project
- Conduct qualitative research to explore the experiences of veterans engaged in treatment with Combat Stress
- Organise annual Combat Stress Research stakeholder meeting
- Responsible for writing 10-year Combat Stress research summary to be delivering on 2023
- Generate quarterly or bi-annual research summaries to be used internally by Combat Stress
Key Skills
- Good SPSS and Excel skills
- Evidence of qualitative & quantitative research skills
- Evidence of, or willingness to, publish research findings
- Experience presenting to mixed staff groups
This role is subject to a DBS check.
What we offer:
You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base.
Benefits:
• 27 days annual leave, with an increase to 30 days annual leave upon 5 years of continuous service, plus bank holidays and an additional increase to 33 days annual leave upon 10 years continuous service, plus bank holidays.
• Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 11% of salary
• Discount shopping vouchers
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• Death in Service Scheme
How to apply:
Thank you for your interest in working for Combat Stress.
If your application is shortlisted, one of the team will contact you shortly after the closing date to let you know the next steps.
Please be aware that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to all applicants. If you do not hear from the team within 3 weeks of the closing date, we will not be taking your application further on this occasion.
We will keep your details for up to 6 months after the vacancy has been successfully filed. Please feel free to contact us if you no longer wish us to hold your details.
Once again, thank you for your interest in working at Combat Stress.
To apply, send an up to date CV and covering letter to recruitmentsouth@combatstress.org.uk
If you have been informed about the role by a current employee, please state this and the employees name in your covering letter.
For further information about the role please contact Dominic Murphy, Head of Research on dominic.murphy@combatstress.org.uk
Please note, you MUST have the right to work in the UK to apply for our vacancies and work at Combat Stress.
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Closing date: Friday 8 May 2026
Interview date: TBC
Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early, should we receive a sufficient amount of applicants
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