West Northamptonshire Council - Senior Educational Psychologist

About the role
West Northamptonshire Educational Psychology Service are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Senior Leadership Team as a senior educational psychologist.  We are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and innovative educational psychologist to join our growing and dynamic service.

West Northamptonshire is a relatively new unitary council within which the EP Service is very well regarded and supported. The service has a strong focus on values-based practice and supporting staff wellbeing. We are committed to ensuring the highest quality service to support positive outcomes for children and young people across West Northamptonshire. Within the service we promote an ethos of distributed leadership, helping shape the direction of our EP service to be the best it can be.

The service will provide you with a comprehensive induction and CPD programme and regular professional supervision.

We have extensive links with training universities, with members of our EP team employed as tutors on EP training courses, along with links to local universities.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, and the new directions which the Service is taking, please email Kathryn Davidson, Interim Principal Educational Psychologist kathryn.davidson@westnorthants.gov.uk  or Gavin Morgan, Interim Principal Educational Psychologist and tutor at University College London – gavin.morgan@westnorthants.gov.uk

What will you be doing?
As a senior EP you will play a key role in managing and providing professional support to a team which will include specialist senior educational psychologists, educational psychologists, assistant educational psychologists and trainee educational psychologists. The senior EP will support the team to deliver a balance of early intervention and statutory work.

West Northamptonshire EP Service protects time for early intervention work and all EPs have a patch of schools and opportunities to engage with a number of other projects (e.g. MELSA, SENCO Supervision, ELSA, training programmes available to all schools). 

The role also includes exciting opportunities to lead and develop strategic initiatives across the county, supported by an established leadership team.

This is a full time, permanent position. However we are open to discussions for 30 hours per week.

About you
We look forward to hearing from applicants who have:

• A passion for applying psychology to make a meaningful difference and improve the life chances of others, and particularly those from vulnerable and/or marginalised groups
• A commitment to innovative and creative practice, seeking ways to ensure children and young people in West Northamptonshire achieve their best outcomes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Skills in working collaboratively with different professionals
• Experience working as a qualified educational psychologist within a local authority

West Northamptonshire EPS is a Safer Recruitment service, and all successful candidates will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Applicants will need to be professionally qualified and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

About us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services. 

Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU  

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.

Applicants should note that this post is not on Soulbury Pay and Conditions.

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