Educational Psychologist - CH02226 in Walsall

Walsall Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is seeking to recruit Educational Psychologists to join our values-driven service. Walsall EPS holds at its core, the following values:

• Meaningful: We have a positive impact by being meaningful and purposeful in what we do.
• Collaborative and Facilitate change: We work in collaboration with stakeholders to facilitate change and promote positive outcomes.
• Anti-oppressive practice: We work in an anti-oppressive way to promote equity.
• Creative and Innovative: We are creative and innovative in our application of psychology, which we apply in a diverse range of ways.
• Child-centred: Everything we do is done with the child/young person’s best interests in mind. We work with children/young people to generate a holistic understanding including the child/young person’s views and strengths.
• Supportive: We are supportive and compassionate with each other and with the individuals and communities we work with. We work to foster supportive systems that enable individuals, teams and communities to flourish.

In response to national SEND Reforms, we are seeking to appoint an EP who will support the delivery of our new Experts at Hand offer through:

• Providing EP services to schools and leading multiagency support for settings focusing on systemic and organisational change and whole school strategic support for inclusion.
• Contributing to our offer at the Targeted and Specialist tiers, through the creative application of psychology.
• Working alongside EPS team members to support the delivery of our central training offer to schools (e.g. ELSA, EBSA, SCERTS).
• Delivering supervision to ELSAs across Walsall schools.
• Develop and deliver an early intervention project aligned to your area of interest and current local authority SEND priorities.
• Contribute Psychological Advice to EHC Needs Assessments.

Walsall EPS is committed to offering a balance of work and operates an allocation model which caps statutory work to enable our EPs to support early intervention and preventative work. The greatest proportion of time will be spent delivering a wide range of psychological support to schools through our Experts at Hand offer.

Walsall Educational Psychology Service is a creative and dynamic service looking to recruit Educational Psychologists to expand our growing team, and support us to embed our new Experts at Hand Offer across the borough. We have a strong team identity driven by our shared service vision and values. Our team currently consists of Assistants, Trainees, Maingrades, Specialist Seniors, and Senior EPs led by our Principal EP. We are a consultation-led service and have recently invested in refreshing our delivery model of consultation and are looking forward to further development and CPD in this area.

Walsall EPS has grown strong multiagency partnerships with other local authority teams such as Youth Justice Service, Virtual School, Violence Reduction Partnership, Attendance Team, and colleagues in Health and Social Care, allowing the development of innovative EP practice in a variety of diverse contexts.

We offer a range of central training to settings including ELSA, EBSA, and SCERTS to support inclusive practice in schools. As a service, we are committed to supporting early intervention, and we are currently developing projects around supporting transitions of vulnerable children, the reintegration of children following exclusion, and whole-school inclusion.

Working for Walsall EPS has many benefits including:

• Regular opportunities for formal and peer supervision, which is protected within our allocation model.
• A program of in-house and externally commissioned CPD. Service members have the equivalent of 12 days of CPD (1.0 FTE) within their allocation.
• A generous annual leave entitlement. Service members have up to 35 days of annual leave (1.0 FTE).
• A flexitime system and agile working.
• A central office base which includes an on-site café, excellent IT support and equipment, a variety of open-plan working spaces, bookable room spaces and access to free parking.
• Access to administrative support teams.

We would be interested in hearing from qualified Educational Psychologists as well as those currently in Year 2 or 3 of the professional training course. All applicants must hold the relevant professional qualification and be registered with the HCPC (or be eligible on completion of qualification).

For an informal discussion or to find out more please contact Senior EPs, Dipak Choudhury (dipak.choudhury@walsall.gov.uk) or Nina Purewal (nina.purewal@walsall.gov.uk).

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form. Please do not add a CV as we do not accept them.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding this job vacancy. We are not accepting agency applications or referrals at this time.

Walsall Council’s Children’s Services are the only Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ local authority in the Black Country. During a visit in May 2025, Inspectors described Walsall Council as a place where children were at the heart of. The council’s journey of continuous improvement started in 2017 and has since transformed into a service with a clear vision, clear priorities and a clear plan, all informed by the views of our staff and children. Staff are at the core of delivering great outcomes for children and young people in Walsall, which is underpinned by our Walsall Right 4 Children vision. The latest Ofsted inspection demonstrated that staff in children’s services are proud to work for Walsall Council and feel supported to do great work.