Senior Educational Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Lingfield, United Kingdom The Wise Seeker Services Full time

At The Wise Seeker we are looking for aSenior Educational Psychologist to work with one of our clients: acompany leading national charity focused on enhancing the lives ofchildren and young people with epilepsy and relatedconditions.

Location: Lingfield SurreyUK

Sector: HealthCare

Functions

ClinicalandManagerial

  1. Tosupport the Executive Principal and the Therapies Lead in theirrole contributing to decision making service planning andstrategy.
  2. To undertake line management of thePsychology and Speech and Language teams including monitoring andreviewing performance.
  3. To participate ineducation and residential panel assessment for suitability ofchildren and young adults.
  4. To promote andfacilitate collaborative working early intervention and integratedsolutions applying psychology to enhance the learning anddevelopment of children and young adults at StPiers.
  5. To assess and provide psychologicalreports for new students to St Piers
  6. Toundertake therapy sessions to support the emotional and mentalhealth of children and young adults at StPiers.
  7. To provide psychological advice to staffwithin St Piers educational and residential services includingworking closely with colleagues in the WellbeingTeam.
  8. To provide a highquality psychologicalservice to students and their families schools and otherpartners.
  9. To provide Assessment andPsychological reports for the Assessment Unit in YoungEpilepsy.
  10. To provide training on PsychologicalApproaches to Behaviour.
  11. To contribute todelivering positive outcomes for children and young people throughcreative application of psychology.
  12. Thisincludes casework consultation projects and wider serviceinitiatives Work in partnership with parents and in closecooperation with other services both within and outside YoungEpilepsy in order to contribute to a coordinated service forchildren and young adults.
  13. Be aware of reviewunderstand and meet organisation performance standards policies andprocedures targets and key performanceindicators.
  14. To attend/chair/participate invarious internal and external meetings student reviews andcommittees etc. as required.
  15. Responsible forensuring all policies procedures protocols and guidelines relatingto educational psychology interventions and/or areas of work are inplace maintained reviewed and communicated effectively to therelevantteams.

    General
  1. Ensureall duties are carried out in accordance with Health and Safetyregulations as given by the Young Epilepsy Health and Safety policyand procedures.
  2. This Job Description is notexhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake otherreasonable and appropriate tasks.
  3. YoungEpilepsy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare ofchildren and young people and expects all staff and volunteers toshare thiscommitment.

Requirements

  1. Adoctorate or postgraduate qualification in Educational Psychologyrecognised by the British PsychologicalSociety
  2. At least 4 years experience in theapplication of psychological knowledge andskills
  3. Clinical experience of developing anddelivering highly effective person centredpathways
  4. Used to working as part of amultidisciplinary team
  5. Effective organisationalskills
  6. Highly developed analyticalskills
  7. Excellent communication skills andability to communication at alllevels
  8. Effective influencingskills
  9. Team Player
  10. Flexibleand approachable
  11. Ability to think strategicallyand beholistic

Benefits

  1. Freeparking
  2. Onsite gym with an annual fee of25
  3. Onsite subsidiseddining
  4. Health insuranceplan
  5. Holiday entitlement: 27 days plus bankholidays (All year roundcontract)


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