Educational Psychologist

Are you looking for an Educational Psychology Service that delivers more than statutory work? Would you like a role where innovation is valued, and you can be part of service improvements? Do you like to work creatively with colleagues in a range of applied educational psychology work? We are looking for Educational Psychologists who are passionate about preventative local authority work to join our creative and experienced team.

With a focus on early identification and intervention work, innovative service delivery in the face of rising need, and many opportunities to work with our own multi-disciplinary outreach teams, and those from social care and health, we think that Brighton & Hove EPS is a service that can satisfy your professional needs. Year 3 trainee EPs are very welcome to apply.

Our Educational Psychology Service has strong leadership and is well respected in Brighton & Hove. We like to innovate and have developed supportive tools for our practitioners and settings, such as our Attachment Aware Behaviour Regulation Policy Guidance and ATTEND guidance, a robust process for understanding EBSA. We deliver SENCo support through forums, induction, training, reflective practice and supervision. Opportunities to develop your own interests in psychology is a key part of our service development.

We support a range of local strategies, projects and developments including Education & Learning Inclusion working groups, Anti-Racist Strategy, PINS, Inclusion Intervention Spaces, SEND AP Change Programme and EMHWB across age stages. EPs work collaboratively with Brighton and Hove Inclusion Support Services (BHISS) teams including early years, autism, language, sensory needs, literacy and SEMH. We also work within the Virtual School, Adolescent Service, and with all special schools, specialist provisions and local colleges.

We are continuing to expand our team as a response to our strategic leaders understanding the need for psychology to support all areas of SEND and Inclusion, beyond the statutory role. We have collaborative CPD days across the year and our service plan is developed with the team. Everyone’s view is valued.

Past years have focused on measuring the impact of our prevention work, becoming anti-racist practitioners, consultation, developing robust assessment and intervention practice such as ELSA training, Emotion Coaching, VIG, motivational interviewing, and dynamic assessment.

Benefits include:

• Well established peer supervision model and regular supervision with your line manager
• Working together on service development
• Opportunities to develop leadership roles and areas of interest
• Flexible working arrangements and trust in professional autonomy
• Comprehensive induction and CPD programme

Our team members tell us that supportive colleagues, team spirit, breadth of work, creativity, relationships with schools and opportunity to develop as a psychologist are all real strengths of the service.

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Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. Hybrid Working - We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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Encouraging a diverse workforce: Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.