Senior Educational Psychologist

Overview Are you an experienced Educational Psychologist looking for an opportunity to shape the future of educational psychology practice?

This is an exciting opportunity to join Buckinghamshire's Educational Psychology Service at a time of significant innovation and development. As a Senior Educational Psychologist, you will combine strategic leadership, operational oversight and people management responsibilities, while helping to shape the ongoing development of our ambitious Experts at Hand model.

Alongside your locality leadership responsibilities, you will lead a designated area of strategic development, helping to design, implement and evaluate new approaches to educational psychology delivery. This includes influencing how educational psychology contributes to system-wide improvement across education, health and care, extending our impact beyond traditional school patch working.

Working as part of our SEND Service, you will play a key role in improving outcomes for children and young people aged 0-25 through evidence-informed practice, partnership working and service innovation.

About us About the Buckinghamshire Educational Psychology Service Buckinghamshire Educational Psychology Service is a highly regarded team of Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists and Assistant Educational Psychologists committed to improving outcomes for children and young people through consultation, assessment, intervention, research and systems-level work. We are a reflective, supportive and forward-thinking service that values professional autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.

We are currently implementing an ambitious service transformation through our Experts at Hand model. This approach builds upon the strengths of traditional locality working whilst creating greater opportunities for Educational Psychologists to contribute specialist expertise across communities, sectors and strategic priorities. As a result, our Educational Psychologists are increasingly able to work at individual, organisational and system levels, influencing practice across the wider SEND system.

About Experts at Hand Buckinghamshire's Experts at Hand model builds on the strong foundations of our existing model in which Educational Psychologists have worked in close partnership with schools, Specialist Teachers, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and other professionals to support inclusion and build capacity. Through our School Partnership Teams, Educational Psychologists have developed a strong reputation for collaborative consultation, systems development and solution-focused approaches that help schools meet the needs of children and young people.

Experts at Hand enables us to build on this successful model by creating additional capacity and flexibility in how Educational Psychology expertise is deployed across the system. While School Partnership Teams continue to provide a consistent relationship with schools and settings, the model creates greater opportunities for Educational Psychologists to deliver direct interventions, facilitate organisational change, provide clinical supervision, and lead reflective practice and work discussion groups.

This allows us to strengthen both preventative and early intervention support while extending our impact beyond individual casework.

A key feature of the model is the development of specialist Communities of Practice, which bring together Educational Psychologists, practitioners and partner agencies to develop expertise, innovation and system-wide improvement in priority areas. Our current Communities of Practice focus on Early Years, Post-16, Alternative Provision and Specialist Provision, creating opportunities to shape new approaches to partnership working, develop targeted support offers, and influence strategic developments across the county.

Senior Educational Psychologists play a central role in this work, helping to design and implement new areas of practice and ensuring that Educational Psychology continues to evolve in response to the needs of Buckinghamshire's children, young people, families and communities.

This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to and influence the next phase of this development, helping to shape how Educational Psychology supports children, young people and families across the county.

About the role

This is an exciting senior leadership opportunity for an experienced Educational Psychologist who is passionate about driving…