Assistant Educational Psychologist

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports. Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services. We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’.

Help Shape the Future of Inclusion

Halton Borough Council and NHS partners are seeking innovative, passionate and highly skilled professionals to join our new Experts at Hand Team, an ambitious and transformative service designed to strengthen inclusion, build capacity within mainstream settings and improve outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). This is a unique opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team that brings specialist expertise directly into schools, early years settings and colleges, ensuring that the right support is available at the right time.

Through coaching, modelling, consultation and practical intervention, our Experts at Hand Team will help educational settings develop the confidence, skills and knowledge needed to meet a diverse range of needs.

Hours:

37 hours per week

Apply psychology within the context of children/young people and adults, in schools /settings and families, to contribute to the Educational Psychology service plan under the guidance and support of the EP team through involvement with consultation, training and overall service delivery – available to schools, settings and families through core time, Experts at Hand and traded models.

Assist the Educational Psychology Service in the delivery of services with reference to those Children and young people who are not attending educational settings due to difficulties with their emotional health and wellbeing.

Conduct and evaluate small scale research-based projects to add to the practice-based evidence base for intervention under the supervision of Educational Psychologists within the team through Core, Experts at Hand and traded models of service delivery. Promote Inclusion, Educational achievement / attainment, and Social and Emotional development.

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service with the option to purchase an additional four-day of unpaid leave for our Annual Christmas Closedown
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Flexible working arrangements
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme

If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you –

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.

Interviews will take place on 05 November 2026.