Educational Psychologist X2 - Dewsbury, United Kingdom - Kirklees Council

Kirklees Council

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Dewsbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We adopt a 'name blind' approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

Organisation

Kirklees

Directorate

Children & Families

Service Area

Learning & Early Support

Hours

37 hours per week, but part time hours will be considered

Number of Jobs

Location(s)

Dewsbury and surrounding areas

Position type

Permanent

Grade

Soulbury EIP Scale point SPA)

Salary
- £47,522 - £54,142

Enhancements / additional payments details

Essential Care User Allowance & Market Rate Supplement of £3,400 dependent upon experience

Kirklees council has a strong commitment to continuing to provide excellent services to support its diverse community and places high value on the educational psychology team's involvement in this.

Our EPS has a free core offer for all schools as well as providing some support to schools as part of a traded offer.

Our Council leaders value the skills and expertise of educational psychologists and the broad role that they have in influencing both preventative and early intervention work.

As such, we guarantee a balance of statutory and non-statutory work for all team members.

We are looking to recruit creative and dynamic educational psychologists to support us with both our core offer for schools and a range of exciting project work which we are commissioned to undertake and includes:

Leading on the whole school approach to Emotional Health and Well Being (EH&WB ) in our large and continually expanding Mental Health in Schools (MHSTs) programme
Rolling out Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) training across all MHST schools
Developing and embedding Emotion Coaching practice across schools
Building on the work undertaken with schools as part of the Alex Timpson Attachment Aware, Trauma-Informed and Resilience-Led research programme
Leading on training to education settings for children in care and working closely with our specialist teachers and inclusion workers

Our remit within these initiatives focuses on whole school development work which aims to build long term capacity within our schools through a range of training, interventions and staff supervision.

This work has gained local and national recognition. Follow the links at the end of the document to find out more.

We offer a competitive salary to EPs who:

enjoy variety and the opportunity to be creative in their practice

- thrive on opportunities for development and growth
- want to ensure a balance of statutory and other work
- relish the opportunity to have a key role within specialist areas
- see the value of consultation and utilise a dynamic approach to assessment
- want to work within a large, friendly and supportive team with access to excellent administrative support and IT facilities
- see the value in working collaboratively with our Assistant EPs, Trainee EPs and Inclusion Workers in relation to supporting vulnerable children and young people

For our employees we provide:
- agile working and flexible, family friendly working arrangements
- regular and high-quality supervision session with a Senior EP
- regular and high-quality peer supervision
- team meetings and service days
- excellent CPD opportunities
- excellent administrative support from our dedicated Business Support Team
- access to free parking passes
- essential car user allowance
- dedicated office space

Click the following link to hear from Educational Psychologists in the team about what it is like to work in Kirklees:Our YouTube Page
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Trauma Informed Approaches:

Attachment and trauma awareness:
good practice in local authorities — )

Emotion Coaching:

Best start - Council Plan 2021/23 | Kirklees Council

Therapeutic Storywriting:

Research:
Story Links | Centre for Therapeutic Storywriting

Case Study 7:
Sam's stories | Therapeutic Storywriting Training

Twitter:

Applicants must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or, in the case of trainee EP's, expecting to have their registration confirmed following the completion of their recognised training course.

An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required for this post.

Interview date:

w/c Monday 20th February.- ***
or phone: and ask for 'Recruitment'.- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Closing date**13 February 2023, 11:55 PM

Important Information: