Educational Psychologists

Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’.

Our Team:

Halton is expanding! We are a highly regarded Educational psychology service who are growing.

Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated psychologist looking for an exciting opportunity to work with a highly committed team who apply psychology to improve outcomes for children and young people? Do you believe in working within a graduated approach, identifying and building on pupils’ strengths and working in collaboration with teachers, pupils and families at whole system, group and individual levels?

Halton Educational Psychology Service are looking to appoint educational psychologists. Together we are aiming to further develop our high quality consultation based service and contribute to promoting inclusion and improving outcomes for children young people and families across the borough. We are committed to developing a forward thinking evidenced based service that applies creative psychology to promote positive change. We are excited to welcome similarly focused practitioners into our team to help achieve this. Could this be you?

Hours: 22.5, working pattern can be discussed

Your Contributions:

• Promoting and facilitating the application of psychology to create positive change for children, young people and families by working with schools adopting a flexible, creative ‘can do’ approach
• Being professionally qualified, HCPC registered and personally committed to making a difference to individual young people
• Being willing to develop an area of specialist work in line with your own interests and core priorities identified within Halton Borough Council
• Working within a time allocation system and be responsible for the efficient, effective, clinical and professional delivery of Educational Psychology to meet the needs of the children, young people/adults, schools, settings and families in a group of schools
• Working collaboratively across and with our partner agencies to support the development and delivery of initiatives/projects at strategic and operational levels
• Working within and deliver in a partially traded model as we grow, completing assessments in line with Education, health and care needs requests as required

Our team are primarily based at Rutland House in Runcorn with flexibility to work on a hybrid and agile basis.

Our Offer:

Aside from working with a great team, within a progressive service, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Flexible working arrangements
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to quality continued professional development and actively encouraged to attend training and develop psychological knowledge and skills
• Peer supervision programme and individual supervision

Next Steps:

At Halton Borough Council, we want all of our candidates to feel well-informed so if you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Dr Rhona Hobson, Principal Educational Psychologist, on 01515118736.

You are welcome to come and visit the service on arrangement.

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 8th June.

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk.

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please complete your application as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!