Specialist Senior Educational Psychologists

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for Specialist Senior Educational Psychologists to join their expanding Educational Psychology Service. This role involves active participation in leadership and management, focusing on key areas such as parental engagement and complex needs. You will supervise qualified educational psychologists while also delivering essential psychology services to children and families. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in the community while working in a supportive environment dedicated to professional development and diversity. If you are passionate about educational psychology and have the required qualifications, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• Must be HCPC registered Educational Psychologists with minimum 2 years experience.
• Experience in supervision and management of EPs and assistant psychologists.

Responsibilities

• Supervise qualified EPs and assistant psychologists in service delivery.
• Deliver psychology services through consultation with children, parents, and schools.

Skills

Educational Psychology

Supervision

Consultation

Parental Engagement

Education

HCPC Registration

2+ years experience as qualified EP

Job description

Specialist Senior Educational Psychologists - 2 posts.

Soulbury EP Scale B 2-8 £54609-£63836 including 3SPAs

Working 36.5 hours per week

We are seeking to expand the city’s Educational Psychology Service in order to meet the high demand for our services and need committed aspiring or experienced managers and leaders to support these endeavours.

Specialist Seniors have active roles and responsibilities within the four area teams and are part of the senior leadership team. There are a number of priority areas within service delivery we wish to review or begin development under the specialist strategic lead of a SSEP including parental/carer engagement, complex needs in the specialist sector, cognition and learning, and SEMH. As a manager, the role will involve supervision of qualified EPs and assistant psychologists. Alongside the specialist and management activities, you will provide generic work for up to 30% of your time: especially delivering a psychology service through consultation and working with individuals and groups of children, parents and carers, schools and early years providers, the local authority, and partner agencies.

Applicants must be HCPC registered Educational Psychologists with at least 2 years experience as qualified EPs.

Applications Deadline: 05.05.25

Provision interview dates: week commencing 19.05.25

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Personal Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Personal Statement should outline how you meet the essential criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills, and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining, and developing all of our people.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information regarding the interviews for this post.

For any informal enquiries please contact: Dr Pauline Bromfield, Head of Service - Educational Psychology. [e-mail]

Ref: BCC2737

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Job Description and Person Specification

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