Senior Educational Psychologist

Brighton & Hove City Council; Brighton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Senior Educational Psychologist to lead innovative educational psychology services. The role emphasizes early intervention and strategic initiatives, aiming to benefit local communities through collaboration with various stakeholders. This position offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment focused on creativity and teamwork.

Benefits

Supportive senior leadership team

Established peer supervision model

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive CPD programme

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified and registered with Health Care Professionals Council.
• Experience in leading and managing educational psychological services.
• Passionate about preventative local authority work.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team to deliver educational psychology services.
• Innovating service delivery in response to rising needs in education.
• Supporting multi-disciplinary outreach teams and local authority projects.

Skills

Leadership

Creativity

Intervention Strategies

Team Work

Education

Professional qualification in Educational Psychology

Job description

• Contract Permanent
• Closing Date Apply by 29 June 2025

Location

Job Summary

Job reference

• Positions available 1

Working hours

• Working hours 29.6

Job category

Organisation

• Organisation Brighton & Hove City Council

Job introduction

Are you looking for an Educational Psychology Service where you can work creatively with colleagues to deliver more than statutory work? Would you like a leadership role where innovation and creativity is valued? As a Senior Educational Psychologist in Brighton & Hove, you will play a key leadership and strategic role as part of the team.

We are looking for a Senior Educational Psychologist who is passionate about preventative local authority work to join our creative and experienced team. With a focus on early identification and intervention work, innovative service delivery in the face of rising need, and many opportunities to work with our own multi-disciplinary outreach teams, and those from social care and health, we think that Brighton & Hove EPS is a service that can satisfy your professional development needs.

Interview date: Interview date: 9th or 10th July at Portslade Hub, Mile Oak Road, BN41 2PG

For an informal discussion, please contact:

As a senior EP you will play a key role in leading, managing and providing professional support to a team to deliver a balance of early intervention and statutory work. The role also includes exciting opportunities to lead and develop strategic initiatives, supported by an established leadership team.

Our Educational Psychology Service has strong leadership and is well respected in Brighton & Hove. We like to innovate and have developed supportive tools for our practitioners and settings, such as our Attachment Aware Behaviour Regulation Policy Guidance and ATTEND guidance, a robust process for understanding EBSA. We deliver SENCo support through forums, induction, training, reflective practice and supervision.

Opportunities to develop your own interests in psychology is a key part of our service development. We support a range of local strategies, projects and developments including Education & Learning Inclusion working groups, Anti-Racist Strategy, PINS, Inclusion Intervention Spaces, SEND AP Change Programme and EMHWB across age stages. EPs work collaboratively with BHISS teams including early years, autism, language, sensory needs, literacy and SEMH. We also work within the Virtual School, Adolescent Service, and with all special schools, specialist provisions and local colleges.

We are continuing to expand our team as a response to our strategic leaders understanding the need for psychology to support all areas of SEND and Inclusion, beyond the statutory role. We have collaborative CPD days across the year and our service plan is developed with the team. Everyone’s view is valued. Past years have focused on measuring the impact of our prevention work, becoming anti-racist practitioners, consultation, developing robust assessment and intervention practice such as ELSA training, Emotion Coaching, VIG, motivational interviewing, and dynamic assessment.

Benefits include:

• Supportive senior leadership team
• Well established peer supervision model and regular supervision with your line manager
• Working together on service development
• Opportunities to develop leadership roles and areas of interest
• Flexible working arrangements and trust in professional autonomy
• Comprehensive induction and CPD programme

Our team members tell us that supportive colleagues, team spirit, breadth of work, creativity, relationships with schools and opportunity to develop as a psychologist are all real strengths of the service.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with the Health Care Professionals Council.

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Supporting statement guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

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