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Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company that has a public sector ethos, combined with the freedom to innovate enabling us to do things differently. As a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three local authorities (Windsor & Maidenhead, Kingston and Richmond), we offer the freedoms of a social enterprise with the employment benefits of local government. To find out more about us click here.
Educational Psychologist
Join our ambitious and forward-thinking Psychology and Wellbeing Service and help shape brighter futures for children and young people across Windsor & Maidenhead. As an Educational Psychologist, you'll be part of a dynamic, highly regarded team that is passionate about using psychology, research and evidence-based practice to create lasting positive change.
If you're looking for a role where you can be creative, collaborative and make a genuine difference every day, we'd love to hear from you.
About the role
- Apply a wide range of evidence based psychological assessments, interventions, research/evaluation skills and practices at an individual, group, whole school and Local Authority level.
- Promote and enhance the educational, emotional and psychological development of the children and young people in Windsor & Maidenhead
- Work collaboratively both within the Psychology and Wellbeing Team and across the other teams in education, early help, social care and experts at hand.
- Provide the link for a small patch of schools across the borough, enabling a broad variety of work, using psychology and research creatively and ensuring CYP’s outcomes are always the central focus.
- Be a part of developing creative solutions, training and interventions, including research developments and experts at hand to provide whole setting/cluster support, tailored guidance , strategic advice and group level interventions.
If you wish to have an informal discussion about this role please contact Frances Lee via frances.lee@achievingforchildren.org.uk
About you
- Experience and knowledge of working as an EP or Trainee EP within a Local Authority/Social enterprise context, including the SEND Code of Practice legislation.
- Able to demonstrate a range of consultation skills and models that promote strength based approaches such as reframing and joint problem-solving, collaborative person centred planning and contracting shared goals and outcomes with the CYP, parents/carers and Team around the CYP.
- Experience of keeping and maintaining records ( in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate psychological advice that contribute towards EHCPs and EP reports, presentations, written updates and outcome data to a range of stakeholders.
- Highly skilled in working in partnership with schools, families , parents/carers and individual CYP.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, duty of care and data protection and how these are operationalised in role within Education and Local Authority contexts.
- Experience of advising and making recommendations through applying psychological knowledge and expertise to support and meet the needs of CYP with a range of SEND.
- Experience of working with education settings across the 0-25 years group with SEND.
- Evidence of commitment to equal opportunities, equity, diversity and inclusion in applied practice.
- Experience in developing and delivering high quality evidence based training.
About our benefits
We are focused on creating a positive supportive environment, where you will have access to a really wide range of resources, as well as a competitive salary and all the perks to enable hybrid working. In AfC you will also have access to:
- 29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years and 35 days after 4 years with an additional day off in your birthday month (Or for term-time workers, your leave entitlement consists of the non-working periods in your contract)
- Tailored induction sessions commencing on the date you start working for AfC
- Local Government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension)
- Flexible working options - helping to keep a good work life balance
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- A range of staff benefits and discounts
- An excellent learning and development offer to support your career pathway
To find out about all of the breadth of benefits of working for Achieving for Children click here. For our social work offer click here. For our Recruitment Journey, click here.
Important Information
Start dates: Achieving for Children have set start dates meaning successful candidates join on a set date in each month. Candidates are advised to prepare for this should a job offer be accepted to ensure eligible continuous service is not affected.
Right to work: The UK has introduced a new points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers and sponsorship requirements. We advise checking the GOV.UK website for right to work guidance.
Equality: We particularly welcome applications from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our teams. Achieving for Children are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions and can improve the way we deliver services. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.
Safeguarding: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
