Educational PsychologistinPatchwayinPatchwayPUBLISHED THU 27 FEB 2025
South Gloucestershire CouncilrBoQ3q4i
Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on child development and learning.
Collaborative work environment with a friendly and supportive team.
Engagement with diverse stakeholders, including children, families, schools, and local agencies.
Access to ongoing training and professional development to enhance skills and expertise.
Ability to specialize in areas of interest and influence practice within schools.
Generous annual leave and employee wellbeing support as part of the benefits package.
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
The South Gloucestershire Council is seeking an Educational Psychologist for a part-time role (33.3 hours per week) in Patchway. The successful candidate will work within a supportive team to enhance child development and learning through psychological practices aimed at fostering inclusion. Responsibilities include conducting psychological assessments for Education, Health, and Care (EHC) needs, collaborating with individuals, educators, families, and local authorities to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. Additionally, the role involves supporting systemic approaches in schools, delivering training, and leading specialized areas of interest within the service.
Applicants should have experience as an Educational Psychologist or Trainee, demonstrate high-quality casework abilities, and possess knowledge of relevant educational legislation. The role offers a favorable benefits package, including generous annual leave and employee wellbeing support. South Gloucestershire Council emphasises a strong team ethos, professional development opportunities, and a commitment to safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, inviting talented individuals to contribute to their mission of making a meaningful impact in the community.
Applicants should have experience as an Educational Psychologist or Trainee, demonstrate high-quality casework abilities, and possess knowledge of relevant educational legislation. The role offers a favorable benefits package, including generous annual leave and employee wellbeing support. South Gloucestershire Council emphasises a strong team ethos, professional development opportunities, and a commitment to safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, inviting talented individuals to contribute to their mission of making a meaningful impact in the community.
Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on child development and learning.
Collaborative work environment with a friendly and supportive team.
Engagement with diverse stakeholders, including children, families, schools, and local agencies.
Access to ongoing training and professional development to enhance skills and expertise.
Ability to specialize in areas of interest and influence practice within schools.
Generous annual leave and employee wellbeing support as part of the benefits package.
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
How You'll Make a Difference
Working within a friendly and supportive team, you will promote inclusion by applying psychology to bring about positive change. Utilising a solution focused and innovative approach, you will play a key role in promoting child development and learning.
What You Will Be Doing
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Educational Psychologist - Job Description
Working within a friendly and supportive team, you will promote inclusion by applying psychology to bring about positive change. Utilising a solution focused and innovative approach, you will play a key role in promoting child development and learning.
What You Will Be Doing
- Regularly, you will work with individual children, teachers, families and other local authority officers and partner agencies to contribute to the best outcomes for the children and young people of South Gloucestershire.
- Supporting schools, you will help deliver the graduated approach for children, young people and young adults through systemic work, casework, delivering training and with knowledge of evidence informed interventions.
- You will complete psychological assessments as part of the Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment and annual review process.
- Leading on an area of interest within the service, you will contribute to the development of joined up working with other relevant professionals and agencies. This could contribute to the development of expertise in areas that schools would wish to purchase.
- When required, you will support others where concerns are raised as outlined in the Code of Practice 2.
- Please refer to the attached job description for a detailed breakdown of the role's requirements.
- You should have experience of working as a main grade Educational Psychologist or Trainee Educational Psychologist and must be able to demonstrate the ability to deliver high quality casework and use your initiative to develop project work, contributing to the development of new and existing areas of the traded service.
- You will be able to demonstrate evidence of having developed special interests within the field of psychology.
- You must have knowledge of relevant legislation affecting schools and early years’ settings.
- It would be beneficial to have experience of working or delivering a traded educational psychology service model.
- This is a part-time role, working 33.3 hours per week. Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
- Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Educational Psychologist - Job Description
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