Leicester City Council
Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist
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Reference: REQ7919
Description
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Soulbury Senior and Principal EP Scale B Points 2 to 5 (up to) 3 additional points for SPA.
This is a full time post 37 hours per week to include Specialist Senior EP 0.6FTE and link school work 0.4FTE.
Join us in Leicester City's forward-thinking Educational Psychology Service at a pivotal time of SEND transformation and inclusion reform. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Educational Psychologist to shape developments, lead innovative practice and make a lasting difference for children, young people and families across our diverse city.
In your role as Specialist Senior EP (Transformation for Inclusion) you will provide a specialist educational psychology service, working alongside a range of partners, to support developments for the inclusion of children and young people in Alternative Provision, Internal Alternative Provision, Resource Bases, Post 16 and Out of City placements for Leicester City Council. Your work will include complex casework to support inclusion in these provisions.
What You’ll Be Doing
- You will develop the specialist role for Transformation for Inclusion, across a range of specialist provisions and mainstream settings, building strong relationships with colleagues and partners.
- You will have opportunities to develop evidence-based practices through Collaborative Action Research projects and contribute to LA strategic initiatives.
- Alongside your work in specialist settings, you will support stability and inclusion within mainstream schools and settings through school systems level and psychological assessment and intervention.
- You will provide leadership as the Specialist Senior EP (Transformation for Inclusion) which includes management, supervision and development of Educational Psychologists and the promotion of reflective practice.
About Our Service
We are friendly, welcoming and have a strong commitment to personal and professional development for all our staff. We have a culture of collaborative working both within and across local services, and we continue to deliver a broad range of psychological services. We are committed to working relationally and being culturally responsive and anti-racist in our practice.
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Our Service Model Includes
- Working with all of our City schools through a link EP arrangement, giving the opportunity to develop our creative delivery of psychology and promote new ways of working.
- Protected time for all EPs for development work which involves training, consultation and local area strategy work.
- Working with the virtual school, international new arrivals, anti-bullying (Positive Peaceful Places) and with designated specialist provisions in mainstream settings.
- Exploring different ways of working through the EHC assessment process, as one of the Change Programme Partners, supporting us to be up to date with our EHCA workload.
- An integral role in the LA EBSA strategy and working closely with our Children’s Hospital School.
- An expanding accredited ELSA training and supervision offer.
- Opportunities for all staff to develop areas of professional interest and well established links with the Universities Doctoral EP training courses.
What You’ll Need
We are looking for an experienced, reflective and values-driven Educational Psychologist who can demonstrate leadership and high-quality practice.
- You will have considerable experience working with children who need alternative pathways to successfully access and complete their education, including those with neurodivergence and social and emotional needs.
- You will have strong interpersonal skills to quickly build relationships with families and those around them.
- Successful applicants will be able to evidence a sound knowledge and commitment to using psychology for effective inclusion and demonstrate experience of leading and playing an active role in local authority or school development projects.
- You will be able to lead and work well within multi-professional teams, as well as showing autonomy in work planning and management.
- Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with the HCPC.
- An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
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What We Can Offer You
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance to support personal circumstances and family life.
We are committed to professional growth and offer excellent CPD, professional development, peer supervision and opportunities to shape innovative city-wide practice.
- You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.
- In addition, you can choose from a number of benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.
- For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact Mohammed Bham, Principal Educational Psychologist at mo.bham@leicester.gov.uk or 07874 642822.
Region
Central
Location
New Parks House
Salary
Soulbury Scale B point 2 to 5 plus up to 3 SPA points
Package
- Contractual hours: 37
- Basis: Full time
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