Vacancy Details

PERMANENT FULL TIME post available. 37 hours per week Hybrid working systems.

Educational Psychology Service

Crown Building, Chester Street, Wrexham—with working from home and across Wrexham schools

Soulbury Educational Psychology B Scale 1-4.  Previous SPA points will be honoured.  At least 5 years’ experience working as a main grade EP within a local authority.

For further information or an informal discussion about the post, please contact Maria Stewart (Principal Educational Psychologist) by telephone; 07712111554. 

You will be an enthusiastic, dynamic and creative practitioner who is committed to applying psychology within a person centred framework. You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to motivate and build productive working relationships with others within a strongly established and committed team. You will be fascinated by the field of Psychology and open to innovative evidence based practice as we move towards an exciting period of legislative change in Wales. You will be pro-active in supporting the Principal in managing the team to embrace new ways of delivering the service to our community.

Along with a strong desire to further develop your career in management, you must have experience of working as an Educational psychologist within a Local Authority context. You will have some experience of supervision and be committed to developing fresh approaches to the vital process of reflective evaluation.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is highly desirable.

Highly motivated and driven by a desire to improve our service delivery, we place great emphasis on collaboration and joint work, and are happy to welcome new team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We offer a flexible and forward looking working culture where different gifts are celebrated, expertise is shared and where there are plenty of opportunities to develop individual interests. Our common purpose of furthering outcomes for children and young people draws energy from a team ethos of continuous learning, connectedness and mutual support.

Wrexham offers varied and challenging work opportunities. Encompassing work within rural and urban areas, it also offers the chance to get involved in offering services to multi ethnic, travelling communities and to young people from a wide range of socio economic backgrounds. Our offices are comfortable with administrative and IT support provided. Team members are actively supported in working remotely using a variety of virtual platforms.

The Council welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality, religious belief or age.

The Council is committed to developing its bilingual workforce and welcomes applications from candidates who demonstrate their capability to work in both English and Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.