Educational Psychologist; Parents Plus Parenting

Cardiff Parenting Services are strategically led by a Principal Educational Psychologist. We are proud to have 8 more educational psychologists as part of these services and are excited to be looking for an enthusiastic Educational Psychologist to cover a maternity leave.

Parents Plus (0-5) and Parents First (5-18) are the psychology-led parenting services within Cardiff Parenting. The current post is intended to sit within the Parents Plus team, specifically working with parents who are pregnant or parents or carers who have an infant or child in the early years.

Parents Plus is led by a Senior Educational Psychologist. The successful candidate will support the Senior Educational Psychologist with the input of psychology both to the team and the wider workforce.

The Parents Plus team is made up of other Educational Psychologists and highly skilled early years parenting practitioners, who carry out targeted and specialised bespoke work with parents, carers and young children in the home. These interventions are personalised and are co-formulated and clinically supervised by the educational psychologists. The psychologists in the team also provide consultation and training to the team and to the wider organisation.

We have office bases across Cardiff, and also have equipment to work remotely.

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After working with us, parents have said:
"We’re connecting and having fun together and our bond is stronger than ever’.

The Educational Psychologist in the Parents Plus Service has a role in applying psychology to inform personalised pieces of work with parents and carers and their babies and infants across Cardiff.

The Educational Psychologist makes an initial observation and assessment of the parent and child’s unique strengths, circumstances, and possible areas for change, during an initial home visit. Personalised targets for change are co-constructed with the parent during this session and the tailored piece of work is formulated by the EP and the Psychology-Led Practitioner. The practitioner carries out the intervention in the family home with regular supervision from the EP.

The main role of the EP will be:

• To promote the confidence, efforts and capacity of the parents and carers we work with to support parent-child interactions and relationships and meet their baby or child’s unique developmental needs.
• To contribute to improving outcomes for babies and children by promoting their growth, development, learning and wellbeing.
• To assess, co-formulate and supervise the psychology-informed parent-child interventions that are delivered by the practitioners within the team.
• To carry out individual pieces of casework, using approaches that have been shown to improve parent-child interactions and relationships (e.g. Video Interaction Guidance).
• To engage in consultation and training to promote a psychological approach within the team and wider Early Help services.
• To undertake relevant psychological research and dissemination.

You will be supported with ongoing professional development opportunities and will be provided with a telephone, personal computer and the resources and support required to feel confident and safe in your role.

Our staff retention is high and our colleagues say:

“As a psychologist, contributing to a change process over time is hugely satisfying. Being able to spend time having in depth discussions using a problem solving framework, planning interventions followed by ongoing review and hypothesis testing, allows time to think about and apply psychology”

“Having worked as a school EP for a number of years, moving to work in a different context was a risk, however the organisational ethos and support is extremely positive. The CPD opportunities are excellent and time is given for growth and development.”

“Working in this lovely supportive team gives…