Educational Psychologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Manchester; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The Educational Psychologist will join the Educational Psychology and Specialist Outreach team serving schools linked to Melland High School for Bright Futures Educational Trust. The role covers therapeutic intervention and casework across the full range of educational psychology services, with supervision from experienced EPs and collaboration with local authority teams.

Enhanced DBS and right to work in the UK are required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Enhanced DBS check
• Right to work in the UK

Responsibilities

• Deliver the full range of educational psychology services to schools
• Provide therapeutic intervention
• Respond to critical incidents
• Carry out casework at pre-statutory level
• Work with local authority statutory assessment teams and EP services

Job description

This Educational Psychologist post sits in the Educational Psychology and Specialist Outreach team, serving schools linked to Melland High School for Bright Futures Educational Trust. The work spans the full range of educational psychology services, including therapeutic intervention and critical incident response, with casework at pre-statutory level. Supervision comes from one of two supervising EPs and is kept separate from line management, which sits with the school principal. Enhanced DBS and right to work in the UK are needed, as visa sponsorship is not available.

What the job involves

• Deliver the full range of educational psychology services to schools
• Provide therapeutic intervention
• Respond to critical incidents
• Carry out casework at pre-statutory level
• Work with local authority statutory assessment teams and EP services

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check
• Right to work in the UK