Educational Psychologist

Salary – AfC pay scales 39 – 48 (Bar Point 42) | Based in Kingston or Twickenham | Permanent | Full-time / Part-timeWe are a service that is highly valued within our organisation; our diverse and wide-ranging skills as psychologists are recognised, well understood and very much in demand.  We are also a service that successfully income generates and given the increased desire from our schools and partners for next year, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative psychologists to join our supportive and innovative team. We are a large and supportive psychological team with a range of professional interests and experiences.  Each EP works with a dedicated patch of schools, and our strong level of buyback enables them to maintain a consistent presence and deliver a broad range of activities within their settings.  The team is currently leading an Attachment Aware and Trauma Informed project with colleagues from the Virtual School across schools in Kingston and Richmond, alongside developing work with schools on executive functioning, emotionally-based school absenteeism (EBSA), and TA support (including hosting a forthcoming conference for TAs).  Our service also offers the standard provision of ELSA, workforce development training, and Early Years’ consultations. Our service operates a transparent and proportional time allocation model, set at the beginning of an academic year, which has flexibility in-built to take into account the realities of unexpected events.  Core functions such as supervision, line management, CPD, and team meetings are top-sliced to protect the wellbeing and professional standards of the team.  The remaining time is then divided into three purposeful strands: direct school work, rota activity, and service development/income generation/community psychology projects.  While we fully acknowledge the importance of the  statutory responsibilities of the EP role, we are committed to ensuring this represents only one element of rich and varied practice.  To support this balance, rota work (i.e. directed EHC needs assessment) currently accounts for just 19% of time after top-slice, enabling EPs to contribute meaningfully to both statutory and wider preventative, holistic, and community-focused work.