Senior Specialist Educational Psychologist

Warwickshire County Council is looking to recruit more Specialist Senior Educational Psychologists due to increasing demand for our traded and local authority work. 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 are looking for highly skilled, enthusiastic, and creative Specialist Senior EPs with a minimum of three years’ experience to work collaboratively with our leadership team and wider partners. We are seeking to fulfil two specialist roles in the area of Neurodiversity. The post holder will also have a patch of schools.

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.

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 Skills and Experience: 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.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

For further details of working within Warwickshire EPS please contact Tracey Underwood – Principal Educational Psychologist on 01926 742921 or traceyunderwood@warwickshire.gov.uk.

Closing date: 2nd of March 2026

Interview date: Monday 9th March 2026.

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

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