Educational Psychologist

The working role entails both office and home working and direct assessments in schools, colleges pre-schools and homes of children and young people. We are seeking candidates who have a wide range of experience of working with children and young people across the age ranges (from 0-25) around 40% of our case load are pre-school children so it is particularly important that they have experience in this area. We also require candidates who have experience of providing advice and support for schools on provision and strategies to support a wide range of need across the four areas of need: Cognition and learning ranging from severe learning difficulties to specific difficulties; language and social communication difficulties, a high proportion children with work with are autistic both with significant impairments and those that are higher functioning ; medical and sensory difficulties; and those with social emotional and mental health difficulties. Our role is based within a range of educational settings (pre school, primary, secondary and colleges both mainstream and special school) and we would also be seeking candidates who have worked in a range of schools working at the individual level and also at a whole school level to support schools/settings to implement evidenced based effective interventions to promote psychological wellbeing and educational outcomes. We would be seeking evidence of candidates applying person centred approaches to work with children their families and schools to undertake individual assessment and undertake consultation and training.

Please note we currently have 3 full time, permanent vacancies to fill.