Vacancy Details

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CHILDRENS & JOINT COMMISSIONING SERVICES DEPARTMENT

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY / EDUCATION

ASSOCIATE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST                                                                REF: 105800     

Band: Soulbury Scale A Points 3 – 6 (Plus up to 3 SPA Points)

We are looking to appoint an Associate EP to join our thriving and dynamic team.   Our Associate Educational Psychologist will contribute to the Statutory Needs Assessment of children and young people with special educational needs by providing effective, high quality and outcomes-based psychological advice, as well as having opportunities to support schools at an early intervention level through our traded service. 

We currently have a team of 11 EPs (8.5 FTE) plus 2 TEPs, an Early Years Inclusion Coordinator, 1 Assistant Psychologist (Autism) and a Small Steps team (EY and complex needs).  Evaluation is consistently very positive and the team are highly valued by the Local Authority. 

We work closely with our SEND team and we are proud that we have an established system of meetings with professionals and families as part of the statutory process.  This promotes collaborative understanding and leads to meaningful, co-constructed outcomes for children and young people. 

We have well established SLAs with almost every school in the borough, many of whom buy a session a week.  Such regularity of input lends itself to our plan-do-review model of service delivery, with consultation and assessment leading to meaningful intervention over time.  In addition, this leads to opportunities for creative and varied work at the individual, group and whole school level.  

We work hard to promote positive relationships and support wellbeing for all.  This is established through a hybrid working pattern that brings flexibility and life/work balance alongside all the positives of being closely connected and a sense of belonging within a positive team. 

The Hartlepool Educational Psychology Team is always determined to find new and ever better ways to achieve. The challenge to think and plan together to find new and exciting possibilities, within a professionally robust framework, is constant. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  As such these posts are subject to safer recruitment measures and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are therefore required. 

For further information please contact Kathryn Crowder, Principal Educational Psychologist on 01429 523306 or via e-mail – kathryn.crowder@hartlepool.gov.uk

Closing date: 30^th November 2024 

Interview: TBC  

In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions: