Bright Futures Educational Trust - Educational Psychologist (Part time)

We are seeking to employ a 0.4 FTE HCPC-registered Educational Psychologist (EP) on a permanent basis from 01/01/2026. The position will be paid on Soulbury Scale A, points 3-8 (pro rata), with up to four additional SPA points available. The postholder will be entitled to 26- or 31-days’ annual leave (pro rata), dependent on continuous service, and will also have access to the Greater Manchester Pension Fund – a local government pension scheme. Flexible working is fully supported.

Bright Futures Educational Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust currently comprising 11 schools in the North West of England: https://www.bright-futures.co.uk/. The majority of our schools (six) are located within Trafford; four of our schools are in Manchester; and, one our schools is in Blackpool. Within our Trust, we have a mixture of mainstream primary schools with EYFS provisions, a specialist primary school, a mainstream secondary school, an all-girls grammar school and a specialist secondary school and sixth form. The children and young people in our schools are aged between 2- and 19-years.

The Educational Psychology Team (EPT) is a centralised service within Bright Futures, operating in all 11 of our schools. The EPT is small and dynamic, with five team members (3.4 FTE), including qualified and trainee EPs. Two of the qualified EPs work part-time on the Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology at the University of Manchester, and we have strong links with this programme around trainee placements, research commissioning and seminar delivery. The postholder will be supervised by one of the two aforementioned EPs, who share the supervisory responsibilities within the EPT.

The EPT collaborate closely with Specialist Leaders of Education from Melland High School; this collectively forms the Educational Psychology and Specialist Outreach (EPSO) Team, which is led and managed by Sue Warner (Principal, Melland High School). Hence, the postholder will receive supervision from one of the two supervising EPs within the EPT, yet will receive line management from Sue Warner. We feel it is important for supervision to be distinct from line management.

The EPT’s model of service delivery has been developed entirely in response to our schools’ needs, whereby we feel that we are already operating as ‘experts at hand’. We provide the full range of educational psychology services without limitation, including therapeutic intervention and critical incident response. Whilst individual educational psychology casework often does lead to schools applying for children and young people to receive EHCPs, this work is at the pre-statutory level. We have close working relationships with all the statutory assessment teams and educational psychology services within the local authorities where our schools are based, and do all we can to align our practices in ways that are beneficial for all.

The Bright Futures values of community, integrity, passion, equality, resilience and leadership guide everything that we do, both as an EPT and at the whole-Trust level

For an informal discussion about the role, please email Dr George Thomas: gthomas@bright-futures.co.uk.

Please note, the postholder will require an enhanced DBS check prior to commencing employment with us.