Senior Educational Psychologist

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Rugby; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

About the Team

Warwickshire Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is a community focused service, which strives for inclusion by removing barriers. We have continued to grow and further develop our offer and have maintained our well-founded reputation for supporting settings and other services. We have developed innovative ways of delivering support to parents/carers, children/young people, schools and other settings and continue to focus on gaining positive outcomes for Warwickshire’s children, young people and families.

Senior Educational Psychologists East Area:

You will support the EPS leadership with specific strategic and management assignments to extend the leadership of the Educational Psychology Service, working proactively to ensure value added outcomes for children and young people (CYP) as part of the wider Education Strategy. We welcome applicants with a minimum of five years experience working full time (although 0.8FTE would be considered).

You will take the lead within a geographical area for service delivery, supervision and line management of the area team.

We are a large, vibrant and strong service of over forty EPs. Each team is led by a Senior Educational Psychologist. The breadth and range of work undertaken across the service is hugely varied. We contribute and take a lead in 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 place a high value on work-life balance. We 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 setting. We have very successfully developed a range of flexible working practices and all EPs are issued with a Surface Pro to support this.

Would you like to 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 working environment; and,
• If you want to work in partnership with EP colleagues and others on a range of projects of interest, then please apply!

Key Requirements

We need motivated, enthusiastic, skilled, creative and successful EPs able to improve outcomes for children, young people and families through individual, group, and system level activity, and through research and project work. You need to be a reflective practitioner, resilient, solution orientated, and an excellent communicator. You must be HCPC registered.

Closing date: midnight Monday 31^st March

Interview date: W/C Monday 7^th April

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.