Brighton & Hove City Council - Educational Psychologists

Brighton & Hove City Council Educational Psychologists: Full-time & Part-time Permanent posts available

• Are you looking for an Educational Psychology Service that delivers more than statutory work and is embedded in SEND Reform developments? 
• Would you like a role where innovation is valued, and you can be part of service improvements? 
• Do you like to work creatively with colleagues in a range of applied educational psychology work in a multi-disciplinary context?

We are looking for Educational Psychologists who are passionate about preventative work to join our creative and experienced team on innovative service delivery at this exciting time for the Educational Psychology profession. With a focus on early identification and intervention, we believe Brighton & Hove is an Educational Psychology Service that can satisfy your professional needs. 

Year 2 and 3 trainee EPs are welcome to apply.

For an informal discussion 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

Our Educational Psychology Service 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 guidance, a robust process for understanding EBSA, and we have been partners in development of key documents including Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice. We deliver SENCo support through forums, induction, leadership, 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, Autism in Schools, Inclusion Support Bases, mental health support across age stages and delivery of a range of training and development. EPs work collaboratively with Brighton & Hove Inclusion Support Service (BHISS) teams including early years, autism, language, VI & deafness, literacy and SEMH. We also work within the Virtual School, Adolescent Service, and with all special schools and specialist provisions.

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. 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 model, 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 individual supervision
• 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. We nourish an inclusive culture.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the DBS. Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with HCPC.