Senior Educational Psychologist and Main Grade Educational Psychologists

Senior Educational Psychologist

Soulbury Scale B, Scale Points 6-11 (plus 3 SPA points) and Outer London Weighting (OLW)

Salary: £69,957 - £74,199 (plus 3 SPA points) and additional £2,600 OLW

Main Grade Educational Psychologists

Soulbury Scale A, Scale Points 6-11 (plus up to 3 SPA points) and OLW

Salary: £57,730 - £67,779 (plus up to 3 SPA points) and additional £2,600 OLW

*Recruitment and retention bonus of £2000 (pro-rated) after 2 years successful service for all posts

Want to be part of a dynamic, dedicated and creative team?

We are a friendly, collaborative and enthusiastic team of Educational Psychologists delivering a highly regarded and valued psychology service to our schools and provisions across the borough. We are excited about growing and expanding our Service and are looking for a Senior Educational Psychologist (SEP) and Educational Psychologists (EPs) who are dynamic and passionate about applying psychology to improve outcomes for all children, young people (CYP) and families.

This is a particularly exciting time to join Redbridge Educational Psychology Service (EPS). The national SEND reform agenda presents significant opportunities for EPs to shape inclusive systems, strengthen early intervention, and influence how support is delivered locally. Redbridge EPS have been fundamental in shaping and developing the local Expert at Hand (EaH) model. Over the coming months, we are looking forward to piloting our EaH offer and playing a key role in evaluating its impact and ensuring that psychology remains at the heart of system change across the local area.

We are a dedicated team committed to providing a psychological service to CYP in our diverse communities through culturally responsive practice to ensure that all CYP feel that they belong and have a voice. The service has an established consultation framework which underpins its work with schools and we believe that early identification of needs and supporting inclusive practices that respond to diversity, are key. We work in a flexible and creative way in line with evidence-based practice and have strong links with other teams. Redbridge EPS is uniquely a non-traded service with diverse working opportunities such as with the Virtual School, Supporting Refugees, Early Years, Post-16 and the wider community. We run Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) training and supervision, and all EPs have an ELSA supervision cohort. Redbridge EPS has close links with the Doctoral training courses and we support trainee placements within the team.

Senior EP Post:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and creative SEP to join our Senior Leadership Team (SLT). As a SEP you will support the professional development of EPs that you supervise through

professional and line management responsibilities. You will have a small patch of schools and will apply psychology creatively with a focus on systemic, early intervention and preventative work and contribute psychological advice towards EHC Needs assessments.

As SEP, you will work with the SLT to support the development of the EPS through strategic input towards development and reshaping of areas such as:

· Experts at Hand

· Area of agreed specialism

· Monitoring and evaluation

· Policy development

· Strategic involvement at borough level

· EDI work and culturally responsive practice

· CPD and Service projects and development

· Decision making multidisciplinary panels

Redbridge EPS is forward thinking, and you will benefit from strong leadership and support from the PEPs and SLT. Relevant experience as a qualified EP is required for this post.

EP Posts:

We invite skilled, creative and enthusiastic EPs to join our friendly and supportive team, where dynamic opportunities exist for all EPs to develop and apply their psychological skills in a range of settings.

The SLT are committed to the wellbeing of EPs. We focus on maintaining work-life balance and we have thought carefully about our allocation model to meet our statutory demands and to maintain our non-statutory work in education settings. EPs will have support from our small team of AEPs as well as peer support to enable collaborative and creative work and enhance wellbeing.

Successful applicants will benefit from the support of a friendly, supportive and well-established team who meet regularly to share and reflect on practice, keep abreast of current changes in education and enable whole team development. We value professional and career development with opportunities for innovative roles and developing specialisms. Successful applicants will receive a tailored induction programme, supportive peer and individual supervision, a CPD programme, continuous service and generous annual leave allocation.

Applicants must be a professionally qualified Educational Psychologist and registered with the HCPC or in the case of TEPs, expecting to have their registration confirmed following the completion of their recognised training course.

Full and Part Time applicants will be considered.

Enhanced DBS check is required for posts.