SENIOR EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST (CARDIFF PARENTING - EARLY YEARS)

Cardiff County Council; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Cardiff is seeking a Senior Educational Psychologist to lead an early years psychology-informed parenting service focused on supporting parents of young children. The role involves managing staff, contributing to evidence-based practices, and developing local parenting policies. A successful candidate must be HCPC registered, possess leadership experience, and have a strong background in psychological theory and practice.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in psychological settings.
• Recent professional development pertaining to educational psychology.
• Experience in training and supervising staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the early years psychology-informed parenting service.
• Train staff and supervise the Parents Plus team.
• Contribute to evidence-based delivery through research.

Skills

Detailed knowledge of psychological theory

Experience of applying theory to casework

Leadership & management experience

Experience of direct work with parents

Education

HCPC registered educational psychologist

Job description

About The Service

Cardiff Parenting & Play Services are strategically led by a Principal Educational Psychologist.

Parents Plus is a psychology-led parenting services within Cardiff Parenting. It is recognised by the Parent-Infant Foundation as a Specialised Parent-Infant Relationship team. The team work with parents who are pregnant or who have an infant or child in the early years.

The Parents Plus team is made up of other Educational Psychologists and highly skilled early years parenting practitioners, who carry out targeted and specialised bespoke work with parents and young children in the home. These interventions are bespoke and are co-formulated and clinically supervised by the educational psychologists. The psychologists in the team also provide consultation and training to the team and to the wider organisation.

We have office bases across Cardiff, and also have equipment to work remotely.

After working with us, parents have said :

“We’re connecting and having fun together and our bond is stronger than ever.”

About the job

As the Clinical Lead and Manager of the service, the Senior Educational Psychologist will be required :

• To manage and lead an early years psychology-informed parenting service for parents of babies, infants and early years children across Cardiff.
• To train staff, supervise, monitor and evaluate the interventions by the Parents Plus team based on evidence-based psychological approaches and theories.
• To contribute to evidence-based delivery, through research and training for Early Help
• To contribute to improving outcomes for early years infants and children by promoting the confidence and capacity parents to impact their child’s early development, wellbeing, emotional and mental health
• To contribute to the development, implementation and review of local and national parenting policies, procedures and inter-agency working and to reflect these in the services offered through Early Help

Salary: B - B + opportunity to gain up to SPA (£, - £, (up to £,))

What We Are Looking For From You

We are looking for a suitably qualified and HCPC registered educational psychologist, who has :

• Detailed knowledge of psychological theory and experience of applying theory to casework
• Portfolio of recent relevant continuing professional development
• Leadership & management experience
• Experience of direct work with parents