Assistant Educational Psychologist London, England
Job description
Description
Assistant Educational Psychologist
Management Grouping: Children’s Services
Team: Education & Inclusion/Early Intervention Team
Location: Bexleyheath
Salary: £32,889 - £36,643 inc. OLA (Soulbury Assistant EP pts 1-4 plus Choices Flexible Benefits of £2,598 pa)
Contract: Permanent/ Full Time 36 hours per week
Closing Date: 21 May 2023
Job reference: EDU0000134
Bexley is a high performing Council with well-regarded Children's Services. We are striving to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disability across the Borough. We have a well-established and innovative Early Intervention Team, that includes SEN Strategic Support Partners, Educational Psychologists, SEMH Partners and Early Intervention Team Social Workers. There are strong links with the School Improvement and Partnership and Statutory Assessment teams, as well as with Children’s Social Care teams. The Early Intervention Team work very closely with schools at the SEN Support stage (SEND Code of Practice) but also undertake relevant work outside of school settings.
We have a full-time position, for 5 days a week, available for an Assistant Psychologist
The main purpose of the job is:-
- To work with groups of pupils with communication or social emotional and mental health difficulties in schools, to build confidence, resilience and social skills as part of an intervention programme.
- To use specialist knowledge of language, social and emotional development to raise awareness of the needs of pupils with SLCN or SEMH and associated difficulties.
- To work alongside Educational Psychologists and support them to gather information about children and young people referred to the Educational Psychology Team.
- To observe children who have a wide range of different special educational needs, interview their parents and carers, or school staff to gather a developmental history and share this information with an Educational Psychologist.
- To maintain and monitor records of service delivery to evaluate outcomes and report to clinical and operational supervisors.
- To deliver training to parents and schools alongside experienced staff.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual able to use their initiative to work independently; to manage effectively a varied and changing caseload and make decisions about effective service delivery. The candidate must have a degree in Psychology and an awareness of the importance of language, social and emotional development and the impact of difficulties in these developmental areas on a child’s educational progress.
If you would like to have a conversation about this position, please contact Hannah Sullivan on [email protected] or 0203 045 3573.
What we offer:
- Our Choices Flexible Benefits Package includes lease car, and cash options to the value of £2,598 per annum
- Relocation Package up to £8,000
- Career Average Revalued Earnings Pension Scheme
- Performance Related Pay
- 27 days Annual Leave (rising to 30 after 5 years’ service) plus Bank Holiday Entitlement
- Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
- An excellent working environment at our fantastic offices
- Opportunities for flexible working with excellent ICT facilities
- MyChoice Staff Benefit Scheme – Includes Cycle to Work Scheme, access to high street shopping vouchers and online discount codes.
View more about our employment deal here.
Your Application:
- Closing Date for your application: 21/05/2023
- CVs will not be accepted unless they are submitted with a completed application form.
- Anticipated Interview date: to be confirmed
This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages
