Senior Educational Psychologist

£61,721 - £66,156 Soulbury B 4-7 pay rate plus up to 3 SPA points if applicable

This role sits within a well defined pay band, offering clear progression as you grow your career  part of a forward thinking workplace where you’re supported to grow and you can truly #Be The Difference  at BCP
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Internal colleagues are also normally appointed at the bottom of the band, unless moving within the same profession and skill level, where the pay band is the same they can be appointed to the existing pay point.

If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and young people with SEND, and possess the skills and experience required, we invite you to apply for this rewarding position. We are looking for an experienced Senior Educational Psychologist, or an experienced Educational Psychologist ready to step up into a new role, with good interpersonal and communication skills with energy and drive to take on new and exciting challenges connected to innovative service deliveries and and to help shape the service going forward.

Do you enjoy working collaboratively, compassionately and creatively to apply psychology to improve outcomes for children and young people? Do you enjoy solution-focussed thinking? Are you looking to grow your career into strategic and systemic leadership?

We are committed to early intervention and passionate about inclusion to support children and young people with a range of needs which make them additionally vulnerable.

Soulbury B 4–7 plus up to 3 SPA points where applicable

Are you an experienced Educational Psychologist ready to take your next step into leadership, or a Senior EP looking for a new challenge?

This is an exciting time to join our service.

Through our Experts at Hand programme, we are developing cluster-based ways of working that bring professionals together around children, families and schools. Alongside wider SEND reforms, this is an opportunity to help shape how Educational Psychology contributes to earlier intervention, inclusion and improved outcomes.

Our belief is simple: when we understand a child or young person better, we are better placed to make a difference.

We want our Senior EPs to help create the conditions in which excellent psychology can flourish.

You will lead and support EPs and Assistant EPs, contribute to strategic planning and service development, and help us respond creatively to emerging needs across schools, families and the Local Authority.

You will have opportunities to lead projects, develop and evaluate innovative practice, and contribute psychological thinking across Children's Services. We want to be an outward-facing service: learning from excellent practice elsewhere, developing our own approaches and sharing what we learn.

I am committed to supporting our Senior EPs to develop as leaders. I value a collaborative leadership approach, where we identify challenges together, draw on our collective expertise and take shared responsibility for finding solutions.

Our Senior EPs have an important role in enabling EPs to flourish – supporting their professional development, encouraging excellent applications of psychology and creating a positive and rewarding working environment.

I want our Senior EPs to feel confident in taking on new challenges, developing ideas and leading innovation. We value openness, reflection and learning from experience, alongside the professional courage to question established…