Educational Psychologist x 8
London Borough of Hounslow
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Job summary
London Borough of Hounslow is seeking Educational Psychologists to join a growing Specialist Practice & Advice Service. You will work across schools and settings to deliver inclusive, system-wide interventions, with a strong emphasis on early intervention and collaboration with families and professionals.
The role offers hybrid working, regular supervision and clear opportunities for professional development within a supportive team.
Qualifications
- HCPC registration (or Year 3 EP trainee)
- Eligible for enhanced DBS
- Strong grounding in psychological theory and practice
- Commitment to inclusion, equity and early intervention
- Enjoy collaborative, multi-disciplinary working
- Motivated to contribute to service development and innovation
Responsibilities
- Apply psychology creatively and systemically to support inclusion in schools.
- Collaborate with a wide multi-disciplinary team across education, health and care settings.
- Contribute to assessment, consultation, training and workforce development.
- Develop partnerships with families and schools to support children and young people.
Skills
Job description
We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.
With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
Hounslow's Educational Psychology Service is expanding and evolving-and we are looking for motivated Educational Psychologists to join us at an exciting point of transformation.
We are part of a newly developing multi-disciplinary service - Specialist Practice & Advice, bringing together EPs, Speech & Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Portage, Early Years practitioners, and specialist teachers. This creates rich opportunities for integrated, systemic, and preventative work that goes far beyond traditional models of EP practice.
Whether you are a qualified EP or a Year 3 Trainee, we offer a supportive, reflective, and ambitious environment where your practice can flourish.
Our service is committed to keeping the voice of children and young people at the centre of everything we do.
This role will best suit someone who has some post-qualification experience of working with children and young people and is interested in further development and working in innovative ways.
- Apply psychology creatively and systemically to support inclusion.
- Work closely with schools to develop early intervention approaches.
- Contribute to assessment, consultation, training, and wider strategic work.
- Build strong partnerships with families, schools, and multi-agency colleagues.
Our service is committed to keeping the voice of children and young people at the centre of everything we do.
This EP team sits within the multidisciplinary Specialist Practice and Advice Service. The Specialist Practice and Advice team provides professional advice and guidance to support the inclusion of children and young people across Hounslow schools and settings. The guiding ethos of Specialist Practice and Advice is to apply our expertise to strengthen systems and communities around children and young people. Across the service, we offer:
- A supportive and ambitious environment, where you will receive regular supervision.
- A range of professional development opportunities, including opportunities to develop skills in training and coaching, and learning from the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Support to further develop relevant areas of clinical interest, in line with service needs.
- Be part of a rapidly developing, innovative service model.
- Contribute to early intervention and systemic work at scale.
- Participate in the rollout of the DfE "Experts at Hand" initiative, with protected time to engage in consultation, workforce development, and preventative work
- Collaborate daily with a wide multi-disciplinary team.
- Influence outcomes across education, health, and care systems.
- Develop skills working with a range of ages, in a wide range of settings including primary and secondary schools, and early years settings.
- Opportunity to work in both core (non-traded) and traded services (e.g. training, interventions).
- Strong culture of evidence-informed and reflective practice.
- Opportunities for training delivery, ELSA supervision, and programme work (e.g. NEN, EarlyBird Plus).
- Structured support and regular supervision.
- Pathways into supervision and leadership for experienced colleagues.
- A balanced model: manageable statutory work alongside meaningful early intervention.
- Hybrid working with high autonomy and flexibility.
- Strong CPD and team support
- Are HCPC registered (or current Year 3 Trainee EP)
- Eligible for an enhanced DBS
- Have strong grounding in psychological theory and practice.
- Are committed to inclusion, equity, and early intervention.
- Enjoy collaborative and multi-disciplinary working
- Are motivated to contribute to service development and innovation.
Check out our other vacancies on the London Borough of Hounslow website or get in touch to discuss the opportunities available. We warmly welcome informal conversations about our roles.
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
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