Child and Educational Psychologist

2 months ago

Winsford, United Kingdom Cheshire West and Chester Council Full time

Provide an applied psychology service to schools, colleges, early years settings, families, young people, the community and Cheshire West and Chester Local Authority. Implement strategies and techniques that are grounded in psychological and educational theory and principles in order to promote inclusion and maximise the achievement of young people.

Contribute to multi-agency partnerships to ensure locally based and effective working for children, young people and their families. Support schools and early years settings in meeting the requirements of SEND legislation and the related Council policies and procedures. Contribute to the effectiveness of the Council in implementing local and national strategies, policies and practices. Contribute to school improvement ensuring support for schools identified by Ofsted or the Council as causing concern.

We are committed to developing a forward thinking, evidenced based service that applies psychology creatively to promote positive change, mindful of social justice. We are keen to welcome similarly focused practitioners into the service help achieve this. We believe we can support your professional development, no matter what stage of your career. We welcome applications from TEPs currently in Year , qualified CEPs and CEPs returning to the profession.

Cheshire West and Chester Child & Psychology Service is made up of friendly, supportive, talented psychologists. We offer a partially traded service with a Consultation model of service delivery. We are committed to innovation and trading for the benefit of our residents. We have well-established ELSA and EBSN programmes and are currently developing our EY ELSA offer and Critical Incident support along with colleagues across the wider Children’s Service. Following requests from Headteachers we have expanded our offer to support Children and Young People’s (CYP) learning with regard to executive functioning. Recent traded work with our Virtual School has stimulated demand in this area. We are always keen to further extend our traded offer to support children and young people’s learning, mental health and emotional wellbeing and we would welcome your ideas. 

We are a well-regarded service, our evaluations year on year demonstrate that school staff, parents and CYP value our work. The CEPS has contributed to a range of strategic developments and initiatives within the wider council including ‘Our Ways of Working’. This year we are focussing our own practice following a recent social justice audit. 

The benefits of working for CW&C extend beyond making a difference to people’s lives, as well as working within a supportive, creative environment with people who share your values, you will have access to a wide range of benefits including discounted gym memberships, holidays and childcare vouchers through our Working Rewards Scheme. We pay HCPC fees and offer:

A thorough induction programme, with ongoing training and support from Day Monthly individual and peer supervision sessions Hybrid working so that you can work at home or in the office, around visiting schools and settings. Cash back scheme on any medical treatment that you may require via Medicash Car lease scheme - Brand new fully maintained and insured car for years in return for a fixed monthly payment via salary sacrifice. A generous holiday allowance starting at days pro rata (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service to days. Additionally, the opportunity to purchase up to days additional annual leave and access to Time off In Lieu as appropriate An excellent career average pension scheme. 

We look forward to receiving your application if you are an excellent communicator who is passionate about psychology and empowering service users. All applicants must be registered with the HCPC or eligible to be so once qualified. Successful candidates will:

Support CYP to participate fully in decisions that affect them Work in partnership with parents/ carers and families Promote inclusion Place value on their personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of the Service Seek CPD opportunities with the intention of supporting evidence based practice within our broader Children and Young People Plan Support our successful programme working with Trainee Educational Psychologists 

For further discussion about the post, please do not hesitate to contact Dr Kate Hughes, Principal Child & Educational Psychologist: 

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