Overview
Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist – NN1 1ED
Our Benefits
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About the role
West Northamptonshire Educational Psychology Service are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team as a specialist senior educational psychologist. Â We are seeking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and innovative educational psychologist to join our dedicated, supportive and dynamic service.
West Northamptonshire is a relatively new unitary council within which the EP Service is 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,  Principal Educational Psychologist kathryn.davidson@westnorthants.gov.uk Gavin Morgan, Senior Educational Psychologist Gavin Morgan Gavin.Morgan@westnorthants.gov.uk or Sarah Luxford, Senior Educational Psychologist Sarah Luxford Sarah.Luxford@westnorthants.gov.uk
About you
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.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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