Specialist Educational Psychologist

Warwickshire County Council; Radford Semele; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in the UK seeks a highly skilled Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist to join their community-focused Educational Psychology Service. This role requires a minimum of three years’ experience and HCPC registration. The specialist will work collaboratively with a leadership team on strategic initiatives, addressing Neurodiversity and improving outcomes for children and young people. Offering flexible working and a generous benefits package, this position emphasizes professional development and community engagement.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Agile working options

Generous annual leave

Access to benefits platform

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years' experience as an Educational Psychologist.
• Ability to engage and improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.
• Fluency in spoken English for public communications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership on strategic and operational activities.
• Conduct individual, group, and system level work and project research.
• Provide creative solutions and improve outcomes for stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

Solution-oriented

Resilience

Creativity

Research skills

Education

HCPC registration

Job description

Overview

Due to increasing demand for our traded and local authority work, Warwickshire County Council are looking to recruit more Specialist Senior Educational Psychologists. Warwickshire Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is a community focussed service, which strives for inclusion by removing barriers. We have developed our offer, supported settings and other services, and continue to focus on gaining positive outcomes for Warwickshire's children, young people and families. The service is a large, vibrant team of over forty Educational Psychologists (EPs). Each team is led by a Senior Educational Psychologist. The breadth and range of work across the service is varied. We contribute to and lead a range of strategic initiatives within the Local Authority such as:

• Senior Mental Health Lead Training
• Attachment Aware and Trauma Informed Schools Projects
• Emotional Based School Avoidance Pathway
• Building Inclusive Schools Project
• Literacy for All Project

We value work-life balance and provide an established programme of professional supervision through line management and peer approaches. We can offer a range of generic and specialist work within the 0-25 age range in all types of educational settings. Flexible working practices are available, and all EPs are issued with a Surface Pro to support this.

Why join us

If you want to be challenged to apply educational psychology to facilitate and coach improved outcomes across a variety of traded and statutory clients, if you want to work in a supportive, flexible, responsive, and ethically driven environment, and if you want to work in partnership with EP colleagues and others on a range of projects of interest, then please apply.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly skilled, enthusiastic, and creative Specialist Senior EP with a minimum of three years\' experience to work collaboratively with our leadership team and wider partners. The post holder will also have a patch of schools and will fulfil two specialist roles in the area of Neurodiversity. The responsibilities include working with our leadership team on strategic and operational activity, and conducting work across individual, group, and system levels, including research and project work.

Key Skills and Experience

• Motivated, enthusiastic, skilled, creative, and successful EPs who can improve outcomes for children, young people and families through individual, group, and system level activity, and through research and project work.
• Reflective practitioner, resilient, solution oriented, and an excellent communicator.
• HCPC registration is required.
• The Fluency Duty is required per the Code of Practice on English language requirements for public sector workers; must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

Working for Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision.

Safeguarding and DBS

Warwickshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Successful applicants will be subject to pre-engagement checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our policy, an individual assessment will be completed if there is a declared offence. The council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Benefits

Your future matters to us. We offer a generous pension scheme (employer contribution typically around 19 percent per month) and a valuable package of benefits for members and dependants. The pension scheme includes access to the Warwickshire Pension Fund. Other benefits include agile working, generous annual leave entitlement, bank holidays, an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.