Halton Borough Council - Educational Psychologists

Halton EPS is a highly regarded service who are expanding.  Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated psychologist looking for an exciting opportunity to work with a highly committed team who apply psychology to improve outcomes for children and young people? Do you believe in working within a graduated approach, identifying and building on pupils’ strengths and working in collaboration with teachers, pupils and families across the system?

Halton Educational Psychology Service are looking to appoint educational psychologists. Together we are aiming to further develop our high quality consultation based service and contribute to promoting inclusion and improving outcomes for children young people and families across the borough through our link EP allocation. 

Hours: Flexible FT and PT posts available

You would be expected to: 

• Promote and facilitate the application of psychology to create positive change for children, young people and families by working with schools and families adopting a flexible, creative ‘can do’ approach.
• Be professionally qualified and HCPC registered.
• Be personally committed to making a difference to individual young people.
• Be willing to develop an area of specialist work in line with your own interests and core priorities identified within Halton Borough Council.
• To work within a time allocation system and be responsible for the efficient, effective, clinical and professional delivery of Educational Psychology.
• To work collaboratively across and with our partner agencies to support the development and delivery of initiatives/projects at strategic and operational levels.
• Work within and deliver in a partially traded model.
• Complete assessments in line with Education, health and care needs requests as required.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

We can offer you a progressive service where EPs have access to quality CPD, regular opportunities for peer supervision and individual supervision as well as access to a council benefits scheme. Our office is centrally based. We benefit from free parking, essential car user status and flexible working conditions. 

 Applications are warmly welcomed from experienced practitioners and those recently qualified or due to qualify. 

Next Steps:
If you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Dr Rhona Hobson Principal Educational Psychologist on 01515118736. You are welcome to come and visit the service on arrangement. 

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please complete your application as early as possible.