Educational Psychologist - CH

Walsall Council, Educational Psychologist:

Salary: £49,215 - £65,423 (Scale A 3‑11 inc. up to 3 SPA points). Minimum start point 5.

Contract:

Full time, permanent.

• Meaningful: We have a positive impact by being meaningful and purposeful in what we do.
• Collaborative and Facilitate change: We work in collaboration with stakeholders to facilitate change and promote positive outcomes.
• Anti‑oppressive practice: We work in an anti‑oppressive way to promote equity.
• Creative and Innovative: We are creative and innovative in our application of psychology, which we apply in a diverse range of ways.
• Child‑centred: Everything we do is done with the child/young person’s best interests in mind. We work with children/young people to generate a holistic understanding including their views and strengths.
• Supportive: We are supportive and compassionate with each other and with the individuals and communities we work with. We work to foster supportive systems that enable individuals, teams and communities to flourish.

• Providing EP services to schools and leading multi‑agency support for settings focusing on systemic and organisational change and whole school strategic support for inclusion.
• Contributing to our offer at the Targeted and Specialist tiers through the creative application of psychology.
• Working alongside EPS team members to support the delivery of our central training offer to schools (e.g. ELSA, EBSA, SCERTS).
• Delivering supervision to ELSAs across Walsall schools.
• Developing and delivering an early intervention project aligned to your area of interest and local authority SEND priorities. All EPs within Walsall EPS are allocated half a day a week protected time to develop their early intervention project.
• Contributing Psychological Advice to EHC Needs Assessments within an allocation model that caps statutory work to enable EPs to focus on early intervention and preventative work.

• Regular opportunities for formal and peer supervision, protected within our allocation model.
• A program of in‑house and externally commissioned CPD. Service members have the equivalent of 12 days of CPD (1.0 FTE) within their allocation.
• A generous annual leave entitlement of up to 35 days (1.0 FTE).
• A flexitime system and agile working.
• A central office base with an on‑site café, excellent IT support and equipment, a variety of open‑plan working spaces, bookable room spaces and access to free parking.
• Access to administrative support teams.

Only qualified Educational Psychologists and those currently in Year 2 or 3 of the professional training course are invited to apply. All applicants must hold the relevant professional qualification and be registered with the HCPC (or be eligible on completion of qualification).

For an informal discussion or to find out more, contact Senior EPs, Dipak Choudhury (di) or Nina Purewal ().

Closing date: 14th June. Interviews provisionally 19th June.

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public‑sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care. All staff must share this commitment. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children, young people and vulnerable adults. Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to any time they were overseas.