Brighton & Hove City Council - Senior Educational Psychologist

As a Senior Educational Psychologist in Brighton & Hove, you will play a key leadership and strategic role as part of our team. 

We are looking for a Senior Educational Psychologist who is passionate about preventative local authority work to join our creative and experienced team. With a focus on early identification and intervention work, innovative service delivery in the face of rising need, and many opportunities to work with our own multi-disciplinary outreach teams, and those from social care and health, we think that Brighton & Hove EPS is a service that can satisfy your professional development needs.

For an informal discussion, please contact:
Tracey Williams (PEP): 07795335832 tracey.williams@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Clare Bradley (DPEP): 07825113899 clare.f.bradley@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

As a senior EP you will play a key role in leading, managing and providing professional support to a team to deliver a balance of early intervention and statutory work. The role also includes exciting opportunities to lead and develop strategic initiatives, supported by an established leadership team.

Our EPS has strong leadership and is well respected in Brighton & Hove. We like to innovate and have developed supportive tools for our practitioners and settings, such as our Attachment Aware Behaviour Regulation Policy Guidance and ATTEND Framework, a robust process for understanding EBSA. We deliver SENCo support through forums, induction, training, reflective practice and supervision.

Opportunities to develop your own interests in psychology is a key part of our service development. We support a range of local strategies, projects and developments including Education & Learning Inclusion working groups, Anti-Racist Strategy, PINS, Inclusion Intervention Spaces, SEND AP Change Programme and EMHWB across age stages. 

We are continuing to expand our team as a response to our strategic leaders understanding the need for psychology to support all areas of SEND and Inclusion, beyond the statutory role (please see current main grade advert). We have collaborative CPD days across the year and our service plan is developed with the team. Everyone’s view is valued. Past years have focused on measuring the impact of our prevention work, becoming anti-racist practitioners, consultation, developing robust assessment and intervention practice such as ELSA training, Emotion Coaching, VIG, motivational interviewing, and dynamic assessment. 

Benefits include:

• Well established peer supervision model and regular supervision with your line manager
• Working together on service development
• Opportunities to develop leadership roles and areas of interest
• Flexible working arrangements and trust in professional autonomy
• Comprehensive induction and CPD programme

Our team members tell us that supportive colleagues, team spirit, breadth of work, creativity, relationships with schools and opportunity to develop as a psychologist are all real strengths of the service. 

• All practising Educational Psychologists in the UK must be registered with the HCPC.
• An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required to work as an Educational Psychologist in the UK.