Swindon Borough Council - Educational Psychologist

Every child in Swindon deserves to thrive and our Educational Psychology Service is here to make that happen. We’re looking for passionate psychologists who want to make a real difference and drive meaningful change for young people, schools, and communities. As a friendly and supportive team where people come first, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome applications from both qualified EPs and final-year trainees, with full-time and part-time roles available (minimum 0.6 FTE).

Swindon is a borough that embraces diversity, with a rich tapestry of languages, cultures, and backgrounds represented in our schools. We serve a diverse community, where high aspirations meet the realities of significant areas of deprivation. While some children face hurdles like low attendance and lower education outcomes, their potential is limitless—and it’s our mission to help them unlock it. Swindon is a small unitary authority that is easily accessible and is an exciting and innovative place to work; recently having been selected by the DfE as a joint leader within the South West for the SEND Change Programme Partnership. The EPS operates within a newly structured Education and Inclusion Service within Children’s Services and is centrally located close to the town centre. We are currently operating a hybrid working model which involves a mixture of working on site and remotely in order to promote and encourage a positive work life balance.

The EPS is a well-respected, valued team with good relationships with schools and other partners and committed to multi-agency working and improving outcomes for children and families. We provide statutory services on behalf of the Local Authority and have a successful traded service to schools that has enabled us to expand and diversify.

We make sure our EPs have the time they need with a supportive model that keeps workloads manageable, adds variety through traded and commissioned work, and offers plenty of flexibility. Within the service we place a particular focus on team well-being, healthy work-life balance and protecting the provision of regular quality supervision. EPs enjoy varied opportunities to develop and deliver interventions, training programmes and creative ways of working such as group supervision, coaching, consultation clinics, circles of support, organisational research, ELSA and Cygnet.

Please consider making an application if you are:

• Committed to supporting the inclusion of vulnerable children and young people.
• Place children and young people at the centre of your practice.
• Creative, flexible, positive and focused on solutions.
• Able to work successfully in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to develop positive working relationships with other practitioners and partners.
• Pro-active in developing and sharing your knowledge and skills.

We offer regular support and supervision, appraisals, induction, excellent CPD opportunities and flexible working practices.

An ability to travel throughout the Borough, flexible working and an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.

All applicants must be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC); operate within the professional code of ethics and practice guidelines; and be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act – “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Please see our Vision and Values page for more details.

Please see our new Swindon Plan

Your next steps

Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.

For an informal and confidential discussion please contact Alexa Denham, Principal EP on adenham@swindon.gov.uk or Suzanne Horgan, Deputy Principal EP on shorgan@swindon.gov.uk

You are also welcome to book an individual informal discussion slot with 2 of our maingrade EPs, at a mutually convenient time, which will be an opportunity for you to hear about what it is like to work in Swindon and to ask any initial questions. Please email EPSenquiries@swindon.gov.ukif you would like to book on to one of these optional information sharing sessions. 

Please indicate in your personal statement, if your application is for the Full time or Part time vacancy. Early applications are encouraged.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion

If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk