Solihull Council - Educational Psychologists, Specialist Senior Educational Psychologists & Senior Practitioner Educational Psychologists

With our market forces payments, we are able to offer extremely competitive pay, alongside a wide range of benefits:

• Soulbury Terms and Conditions, including 33 days annual leave
• Numerous flexible working options, including remote working
• Payment of HCPC registration
• Opportunity to buy additional leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Local government pension scheme.

We are also able to consider varying working pattens, enabling you to balance these roles with your personal commitments and consultancy-based work. 

We invite applications from enthusiastic experienced Educational Psychologists, and trainees due to qualify in September 2026 / 2027, who are committed to making a real difference for our children and young people, to enable us to deliver our vision and priorities. 

For our Specialist Senior EP and Senior Practitioner EP’s, we offer opportunities to apply psychology at a wider systems level. Therefore, we are looking for applicants who have experience of leading psychological initiatives at this level, as well as having experience in leading and supervising psychologists and other professionals.

Solihull Educational Psychology Service is a friendly and highly supportive service where collaboration and peer supervision is truly valued.

Our role as EPs in Solihull takes us into exciting, applied psychology territory with schools, families and the wider community. We are proud of our strong links with colleagues across the local authority, schools and health.

Children’s Services are top priority in our Council Plan. In Solihull, you can be part of a team of professionals who truly value the transformative power of psychology, applied research and professional practice that promotes creativity.  

You will be given the autonomy and time to undertake project work to develop your expertise in your own area of professional interest within applied psychology.

We recognise the need to maintain our strong and supportive team relationships in an increasingly agile working environment by promoting regular quality supervision and team meetings.

We enjoy close relationships with local and national educational psychology training courses and genuinely value purposeful CPD and the promotion of research in practice, demonstrated by our clear commitment to whole service CPD and protected personal CPD time. 

You will need an Honours degree in Psychology (or equivalent) recognised by the British Psychological Society, recognised postgraduate training and a qualification in Educational Psychology. You must also be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. However, in the case of trainee EPs, you will be expecting to have your registration confirmed following the successful completion of your qualification in September 2026/ 2027.

For informal enquiries, including becoming an Associate, please contact jane.sowter@solihull.gov.uk

For more information, or to apply, please click the link.

These posts are subject to satisfactory pre-employment online, DBS and medical checks.