Educational Psychologist

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                            Educational Psychologist
• Job Location:                     Shire Hall 
• Salary:                               £50,627 - £60,1600 (+ up to 3 SPA) 
• Hours per Week:               37.00 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                     10/11/2024 
• Job Requisition Number:   9491 
• This post is not open to job share

The Gloucestershire Educational Psychology Service (EPS) apply specialist knowledge to support children and young people, schools and families across Gloucestershire.

“To find solutions and improve outcomes for children and young people through partnership”.

The Headlines:

We are recruiting for 3 groups of EPs as part of a service expansion:

• Trainee EPs qualifying in September 2026 (current TEP Y2)
• Trainee EPs qualifying in September 2025 (current TEP Y3)
• Qualified EPs who share the same values as our team

Key Dates

There is an open evening for EPs or TEPs who would like to meet the team and find out more on 4 November (Online) at 1900hrs

For an informal discussion, please contact Greg Cotton, Countywide SEP (greg.cotton@gloucestershire.gov.uk)

There will also be an evergreen vacancy on Gloucestershire jobs for interested EPs whilst we build our expanding capacity

Why we believe you might want to join our service

The Detail

We align our service values with the recent BPS Campaign (October 2024) for equitable access to EPs in England.

We seek to:

• Ensure every maintained education setting has a linked Educational Psychologist based in their local authority, that is free at the point of delivery, where they can have maximum impact working in partnership with colleagues in education, health and social care;
• Place greater focus on measures to retain Educational Psychologists working in local authority employment, alongside a fully funded and costed workforce plan to enable equitable delivery of educational psychology services;
• Have a holistic perspective of the positioning of SEND within the wider education system to enable increased focus on early intervention and preventative support for children and families and a truly inclusive education system

We believe that psychologists are best effective when they are in schools/settings with enough time to do a range of work.  As such, we have moved to a planning/consultation model offering a wide core offer to all schools and settings in the county - alongside the establishment of a comprehensive workforce development offer and strategic projects. 

We have strategic initiatives which include mental health in schools; ELSA and ELKLAN, promoting functional skills and independence for young people.

To allow us to be the service we want to be, we have received funding to increase the size of the EPS.  We are recruiting to a number of additional EP posts across the county.

The recruitment is intended to allow EPs to spend more time in schools and settings building relationship and inclusion by working on bringing about change rather than documenting needs, as well as promoting projects and wider application of psychology within education.  

We are looking for innovative and solution focused EPs, committed to consultation to join us and be part of this journey. They will have a firm commitment to the delivery of children’s workforce development and development support for parents.

We can offer:

• The opportunity to work in an exciting and growing consultation service with scope to deliver a range of different work as part of your service to schools and wider community
• A variety of work in both rural and urban settings in a fantastic part of the country
• A strong CPD programme and training opportunities
• A strong induction support package
• An established programme of professional supervision and peer support
• A range of generic and specialist work within the 0-25 age range in all types of educational settings
• We pay of Soulbury Scale 5-10 (+3 SPA points)
• Offer a welcome package including recruitment and retention payment* (currently pending)

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Educational Psychologist Job Profile

This Position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.