Educational Psychologist x 2

About Us

At Hounslow, we’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough with brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture. We’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is a world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

Commitment To Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It’s about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

Hounslow’s educational psychology service offers a centrally funded service to primary and secondary schools, with contracts for traded non-statutory work with the borough’s Academies and Free schools. We work in partnership with parents, carers, schools and settings to provide consistent, high-quality professional EP services to children, young people and young adults (0-25) with additional needs. We use evidence-informed approaches to support their well-being, achievement and life chances, whilst keeping the views of young people at the heart of our processes. We have close links with health, social-care colleagues and other partner agencies, meeting regularly to identify and improve collaboration. There are many opportunities to contribute to a range of work—both individually and systemically—to promote the very best outcomes for young people in the borough. EPs deliver training to SENDCos, schools and other services, as well as to parents. Several EPs are involved in delivering NEN (Neuroinclusive Education Network) training to schools and the National Autistic Society EarlyBird Plus programme to parents. We have a quality-marked ELSA offer in Hounslow and invite all EPs to take on a training and a supervisory role within this. In addition to individual supervision, we offer regular peer support and opportunities for team CPD. Opportunities to develop skills and supervision of EPs are also available to suitably qualified EPs. The service is diverse and strives to develop practices that support the educational needs of the most vulnerable children and young people in the borough.

About The Role

Hounslow’s Educational Psychology Services is expanding. We are keen to welcome more maingrade Educational Psychologists to join our diverse and supportive service. If you are an HCPC registered and fully qualified EP (or 3rd Year Trainee Educational Psychologist) looking to join a friendly and established service, we would be very interested to hear from you. We are a highly valued EP service within Hounslow borough, committed to a collaborative and reflective approach to our service offer and team development. You will have a statutory assessment workload and play a central role in supporting mainstream schools to meet the needs of children and young people through early intervention advice and consultation. You will report to the Principal Educational Psychologist (Service Manager for Specialist Practice and Advice).

About You

• Sound knowledge of psychological theories and models on which to base and evaluate practice.
• Ability to apply psychology to facilitate inclusion and maximise educational achievement and well-being.
• The ability to work as part of a team of EPs and in partnership with others in a multi-professional environment.
• Ability to work effectively with children and young people and promote their views.
• A positive and flexible approach to evolving work styles and patterns of service delivery.

Qualifications

• An Honours Degree in psychology recognised by the British Psychological Society as conferring eligibility for graduate basis for registration.
• Successful completion of a recognised post-graduate professional training as an Educational Psychologist (doctorate or equivalent) that confers eligibility for registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as a practising Educational Psychologist in the UK.

Essential For The Role

Enhanced DBS check is required.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role is in the role profile. If you have any further questions about the role, please contact Senior Educational Psychologists Emilia Misheva, Katherine Pugh or Claire Wraight. Email: Telephone: 020 8583 4188 Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing: 20th April 2026.