Ballard House
Permanent and Fixed Term Available
52 weeks per year
Soulbury A points 1-6 inclusive of 3 SPAs
Educational Psychologist Role Profile
Plymouth
City Council
Educational Psychologists
Permanent
and Fixed term contracts available
Soulbury
A points 1-6
Plus
up to 3 SPAs
Up
to 2 previously awarded SPAs will be honoured
These posts form part of the Educational
Psychology offer to undertake a range of statutory, early help and traded work
across the city. We welcome applications from psychologists who are interested
in job share and can be flexible regarding additional working hours.
We are offering the opportunity to work as part of our
valued and highly rated Community Psychology Service. The findings from our
Ofsted inspection were positive noting particular strengths of the strong
multi-agency approach adopted across Plymouth.
We deliver a range of core and multi-agency traded work in
schools as well as wider initiatives in response to national and local
priorities. Plymouth is a compact city and we are a friendly, motivated and
supportive multi professional team.
You will join an integrated service where we hold an
important role in strategic planning to promote inclusion of vulnerable
children and young people, as well as those with SEND. The EP Service, managed
by the PEP, also includes cross phase advisory teachers and support workers for
communication and interaction, sensory needs, as well as early years specialist
support workers. The culture within Plymouth Children’s Services is ambitious,
planning to work with families at an early stage. Educational Psychologists
work jointly with PCC partners in Children’s Social Care and the Virtual
School, and contribute to shared initiatives with health professionals
underpinning a holistic approach to social, emotional mental health and
wellbeing. This is an exciting time to join our service as we plan to establish
multi-agency early help teams (including EPs) as a core offer across the city,
targeting locality needs.
If you are a creative thinker and wish to share ideas for
further developing and supporting our dynamic and specialist teams, then please
apply to come and join us. We offer:
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Opportunities to
develop specialist skills and undertake mutually supportive joint work
with EP and Advisory and Support Service colleagues and as part of our own
team
- Opportunity to
contribute to early intervention through a graduated response
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A community based
approach working with a patch of schools with a spread of activities
including core and traded work
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Working within a strong
and positive multi-agency integrated 0-25 SEND and Inclusion Service
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Regular structured
supervision including peer supervision
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A generously funded
CPD programme and resources to apply psychology
- Allocated time to
contribute to strategic planning, related project activities, and review
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An extremely
generous annual leave package (43 days plus Bank Holidays) with Soulbury
terms and conditions
- Flexible working
arrangements including IT systems and virtual working
·
- The
chance to work in a vibrant waterfront city surrounded by beautiful beaches and
a National Park
We are seeking Educational Psychologists who:
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Are committed to building
parental/carer confidence through collaborative working embracing the
principles of early help and person centred planning
- Work in partnership
with others
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Take a holistic
perspective in applying psychology to support and promote inclusion
- Are able to work
creatively and flexibly to meet a range of needs in varied contexts
- Can work
consultatively and adopt problem solving and solution focused models of working
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Applications are welcome from HCPC registered
professionally qualified Educational Psychologists and Trainee Educational
Psychologists in their final year of training.
The Disclosure & Barring
Service Check requirement for this post is: Enhanced, Check + DBS Children’s Barred List
For more information or an informal discussion regarding
the posts please contact Clare Hetherington, Principal Educational Psychologist
on (01752) 224962, https://www.plymouthonlinedirectory.com/plymouthlocaloffer/educationalpsychologyservice
email psychology.service@plymouth.gov.uk
Closing
date: Sunday 4 December 2022
Anticipated
interview date: Thursday 8 December 2022