Senior Educational Psychologist
Senior Educational Psychologist
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicestershire LE3 8RF
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Soulbury B 58 up to 3 SPA)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 28th April 2025
Interview Date(s): 12th May (in person at County Hall)
About the Role
Leicestershire are seeking applications from Educational Psychologists who are seeking a change or who want to take the next step in their career development. Leicestershire EPS (LEPS) is a service that provides great opportunities for diverse meaningful and innovative EP work within a supportive environment. The aim of our service is to provide access to highquality psychological practice to a range of partners to improve the lives of children and families within our local communities. This post offers a fantastic opportunity to join our Educational Psychology Leadership Team with opportunities to undertake a broad range of leadership activities across a range of systems enabling us to maximise our reach and impact.
You will:
- Line manage and supervise a team of Educational Psychologists acting as a leader role model and mentor within the service.
- Lead on critical areas of service activity and service development drawing on your personal strengths and skills.
- Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of service delivery (inc. quality assurance activity).
- Balance a caseload of work alongside team management activity and wider strategic and systems work.
- Work closely with the Principal Educational Psychologist supporting key decision making and representing LEPS in critical spaces within the LA and across the Local Area Partnership.
- Contribute to large scales projects and transformation programmes such as PINS the LLR Neurodevelopmental Inclusion workstream and Shaping SEND Futures
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Professional postgraduate qualification in Educational Psychology and HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Significant experience as an Educational Psychologist in an LA environment with expertise in applying psychological skills at child group and systems levels.
- Proven leadership experience including project and/or people management leading to positive outcomes.
- The ability to work flexibly decisively and independently demonstrating a collaborative approach with the ability to develop successful partnerships
- Detailed understanding of relevant legislation guidance and policy in relation to SEND and safeguarding with the ability carry out all duties in line with LCC Safeguarding policies and procedures.
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities with the ability to apply this to strategic work and daytoday situations
Leicestershire Educational Psychology Service
We are a partially traded service with demand for our commissioned work growing year on year. Our offer currently includes:
- Service level agreements with individual schools including specialist provisions
- Statutory work undertaken for the SENA Service
- A traded training offer to support inclusive practice in schools
- Accredited ELSA training and ELSA supervision.
- MELSA Training
- Whole School Approach project work in partnership with Public Health
- Support to the Local Authority including our Critical Incident Response Team and membership of Inclusion Forums
Leicestershire EPs have access to:
- Excellent wholeservice and individual CPD opportunities
- Structured timeallocation model promoting wellbeing and a balance of work
- Regular and highquality individual supervision sessions and access to peer supervision
- Wellappointed central office base and firstclass facilities within County Hall Glenfield
- Local touchdown bases across the county to reduce travel time
- Uptodate ICT equipment for mobile / agile working
- Flexible family friendly working arrangements
- Social events organised by team members to promote connectedness
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
We are committed to welcoming individuals who embrace equality diversity and inclusion. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Dr Helen Tyson Principal Educational Psychologist
Telephone: 0
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2 or raising a ticket via our online portal:https://emss/support.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
