Senior Educational Psychologist

Job introduction

We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, including:

• • The post is paid on West Northants pay scales which are guaranteed to be the same as or better than Soulbury terms and conditions. The post is paid on Scale B (Senior EP Scale) points 5 – 8 plus up to 3 SPA points (£63,206 - £71,134)
  • Ongoing training and development opportunities
  • 29 days annual leave per year (pro rata for part time employees), plus bank holidays, increasing to 34 after 5 years’ continuous service
  • The option to buy additional annual leave
  • Payment of professional registration fees
  • Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection
  • IT equipment and support provided
  • Dedicated administrative support
  • Working in a supportive team where ideas are shared and opinions valued, you will receive regular informal and formal supervision
  • Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more
  • Car lease scheme
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme - our free Employee Assistant Programme is available for you and your immediate family members 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.

About the role

West Northamptonshire Educational Psychology Service are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Senior Leadership Team as a senior educational psychologist. We are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and innovative educational psychologist to join our growing and dynamic service.

West Northamptonshire is a relatively new unitary council within which the EP Service is very well regarded and supported. The service has a strong focus on values-based practice and supporting staff wellbeing. We are committed to ensuring the highest quality service to support positive outcomes for children and young people across West Northamptonshire. Within the service we promote an ethos of distributed leadership, helping shape the direction of our EP service to be the best it can be.

The service will provide you with a comprehensive induction and CPD programme and regular professional supervision.

We have extensive links with training universities, with members of our EP team employed as tutors on EP training courses, along with links to local universities.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, and the new directions which the Service is taking, please email Kathryn Davidson, Interim Principal Educational Psychologist kathryn.davidson@westnorthants.gov.uk or Gavin Morgan, Interim Principal Educational Psychologist and tutor at University College London – gavin.morgan@westnorthants.gov.uk

Additional information

We look forward to hearing from applicants who have:

• A passion for applying psychology to make a meaningful difference and improve the life chances of others, and particularly those from vulnerable and/or marginalised groups
• A commitment to innovative and creative practice, seeking ways to ensure children and young people in West Northamptonshire achieve their best outcomes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Skills in working collaboratively with different professionals
• Experience working as a qualified educational psychologist within a local authority

Applicants will need to be professionally qualified and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

West Northamptonshire EPS is a Safer Recruitment service, and all successful candidates will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Company information

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU  

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.

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