Brent Council
Educational Psychologist
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Educational Psychologist
# Senior/Leading Educational Psychologist Salary range: £51,383 – £61,721 (+ £3,803 Inner London weighting) Permanent | Full-time (36 hrs) or Part-time (min. 21.6 hrs) | Civic Centre + sites across Brent
About Brent Council
Transform young lives through educational psychology. Brent is a dynamic London borough with unparalleled diversity — a place shaped by its vast cultural, social, and economic mix. We’re passionate about improving lives through supportive, innovative services for some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people (CYP).
Our Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is evolving: we’re transitioning to agile consultation models, integrating multi-discplinary insights and advancing court-based interventions. This forward-thinking role embraces change — while staying grounded in compassionate, intelligence-driven concordance.
About the Educational Psychology Service (EPS)
A leadership position within a treatment-focused intervention model where collaboration and systemic impact are core to our approach. Areas of focus:
- Substantiated child protection system interventions, with a trauma-informed EDIAS (Education–Diagnostics–Interventions–Adjudications–Safekeeping) framework.
- Court-based special educational needs (SEN) and time-limited crisis support.
- Evaluation/innovation: Genie funding to develop data-led, school-based magic programs and evidence-based outcomes.
Key pillars of our work: ✔ Consultancy & cross-agency leadership: Partnering with healthcare, schooling, and families on escalated cases. ✔ Innovative models: Enhancing EBSA (Emotionally-Based School Avoidance) pathways and multi-agency panels. ✔ Equity-focused training/consultation: Supporting SEBD and ADHD strategies, befriending relationships, and systems over individuals.
Your Role
As a bona fide expert within a developing service, you’ll lead and inspire to:
- Reshape EPS by influencing practice to deliver national and international models of excellence, with a focus on child-centric SEN support.
- Develop effectiveness/court evidence to inform decision-making and protect vulnerable CYP.
- Co-design programs (e.g., Genie) to bridge gaps between schools, outcomes, and systemic success.
- Mentor trainees & colleagues through collaborative specialisations across autism, social emotional needs, and neuro-diversities.
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Key responsibilities:
- Consultancy & Advice
- Deliver consultative and contributory advice to schools and safeguarding partners during grave failures.
- Support care plans and courts’ findings in securing rights for CYP.
- Shaping EPS
- Propose and pilot innovations (e.g., pupil “belonging” measures).
- Lead specialist training areas such as ADHD tools, NASEM decisions, and emotion-fostering interventions.
- With Child Focus
- Champion a whole-child approach within and beyond schools.
- Drive redirection of resource through data insights and creative mechanisms.
- Service Growth
- Develop collaborations (e.g., Experts at Hand ) with safeguarding structures, Inclusion Service, and health practitioners.
About You
We’re looking for a visionary practitioner with:
- HCPC registration + clinical psychological skills in SEN or emerging system interventions.
- Direct path influence across circuits/Courts and education professionals.
- Passion for system-building and the courage to challenge status quo outcomes.
- ** nuovo brilliance**—we thrive on originators, eager to carve beyond thresholds.
- Flexibility: First appointment may be 18–20 hours/week, evolving to 36 hrs as preferences stabilise.
Bren pointez benefits (You Deserve This)
Brent Council doesn’t just pay lip-service to quality of life. Join a workplace that:
- Invests in you: Up to 33 days leave (incremental), generous pension (LGPS), and £2,500 relocation assistance if needed.
- Freedom via Flex: Hybrid working with office base at state-of-the-art Civic Centre (home to Wembley, shopping, transport hubs).
- Vital support:
- Boutique employee assistant program (24/7).
- Organisations offering Free Flu, Pensions Advice, plus 50% eye-wool discounts.
- Commute friendly: Cycle-to-Work scheme, cheap/valuable off-site parking.
- Wider life:
- Covid adaptation—amended wellbeing schemes will finalise shortly.
- Free government childcare vouchers + employer approved education development funds.
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Developing Together
EPS rewires wellbeing into work. Lateral links with training teams (The Ponti workshop*), NAS, and impact researchers are all built-in.
Value Diverse Identities
Join us as barriers to collaboration crumble:
- Disabled & ‘hidden-disability’ applicants: Abbeyment notices extended, interview processes pre-negotiable.
- Anticipating empathy: Cultural responsiveness evident at all levels sets our teams apart.
- Confidential diversity suite: Mandatory but future-proofing science.
�τές Your application—our promise If you’re HCPC (or Y3-Trainee) submit a 3-page statement addressing:
- Your system redemption (How do you achieve outcomes concrete goals within a security framework?).
- Past transformative examples (<2000 words) including:
- What navigation tool would you design for hopeful, consultative safeguarding?
- How might structural barriers drive pre- and post-intervention research?
- Accompanying references—we’ll want your endorsements.
Deadline: 30 June 2024 at 17:00. Apply before the realm of key constraints grows.
Why Us? Brent is awarded Overall Outstanding in Ofsted—tradition meets momenting, kids come first, and leaders journeys bend.
[✨Apply for us—your counsel is paving the path. We cannot thank you enough. ✨]
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