London Borough of Lewisham - Senior Educational Psychologist (0.6 FTE, 12-month fixed-term)

Shape practice. Support colleagues. Make a difference in Lewisham.

Are you an experienced Educational Psychologist ready for a senior leadership role—or looking for your first promoted post?

Join Lewisham’s warm, inclusive and creative Educational Psychology Team. This short-term, part-time role will increase capacity in the EP Service’s senior leadership team while the Principal Educational Psychologist leads on Experts at Hand, Lewisham’s developing multidisciplinary approach to supporting inclusion. A short-term post might be of interest to someone thinking about moving into leadership, it might also appeal to those who would like to work in Lewisham and shape the new ways of working.  It is currently offered as a 12-month post and whilst we cannot guarantee its continuation at this time other opportunities might follow.  It is an exciting opportunity to strengthen your leadership and management experience, support service development and help shape our response to national SEND reform.

We welcome applications from local-authority EPs and from colleagues working in the private or voluntary sector who would like to be part of the reshaping of local authority EP services. If this is your first senior post, you will be supported to develop through induction, peer support, supervision and access to leadership development.

The role
Working closely with the Principal EP, Deputy Principal EP and Senior EP colleagues, you will:

• provide line management and professional supervision to Educational Psychologists;
• support high-quality practice, professional development and staff wellbeing;
• support the team’s service development priorities and contribute to our Service Development Plan;
• help translate emerging national SEND expectations into effective local practice;
• contribute to quality assurance, service evaluation and improvement; and
• maintain a balanced allocation of traded, statutory, commissioned and management work.

You will lead a defined area of practice and leadership, shaped by service priorities and your expertise and interests, while representing the service in multi-agency work across Lewisham.

About you
We are looking for an HCPC-registered Educational Psychologist with at least four complete (full-time) years’ local-authority experience. You will bring:

• sound professional judgement and strong educational psychology practice;
• experience of supervision, line management or developing others;
• the ability to lead projects collaboratively and turn priorities into action;
• clear, thoughtful communication and effective relationship-building skills; and
• a genuine commitment to public service, equity, inclusion and actively anti-racist practice.

Above all, you will care about children, families, settings and colleagues—and want to use psychology at individual, group, organisational and system levels to achieve meaningful change.

Why Lewisham?
Lewisham is the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary: vibrant, culturally diverse and well connected, with central London around 20 minutes away. Our team is based at Kaleidoscope, an NHS Child Development Centre offering excellent opportunities for multidisciplinary working.

You will join a collaborative learning organisation with strong EY, school, college and community partnerships, established links with doctoral training courses and a commitment to professional development, innovation and staff wellbeing. Hybrid working is available where appropriate.

Apply via link to the Lewisham Council careers website, quoting job requisition 2417.

For an informal discussion, contact Dr Sue Franklin, Principal Educational Psychologist, on 07824 318656 or sue.franklin@lewisham.gov.uk 

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.