Job description
Are you looking for valuable experience in an EPS with a view to eventually training as an Educational Psychologist (EP)?
This is an exciting time to join Sheffield Educational Psychology Service, as we are expanding rapidly. We are looking to develop a substantial team of Assistant EPs to work in partnership with qualified EPs and develop new ways of working. This will include the development of a collaborative and person-centred model for carrying out Education Heath and Care Needs Assessments.
We are a values-driven Service with all members of the team participating in an innovative leadership model to drive us forward. Keeping children at the heart of everything we do, we are solution-focused, person-centred, inclusive, reflective and committed to ethical practice.
We are committed to increasing diversity in the profession and to developing anti-racist practices.
Our Assistant EP team will:
1. Assist the Educational Psychology Service in developing a collaborative model to support psychological assessments for Education, Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNAs), working in partnership with qualified EPs. This will include drafting reports and other written feedback for and with EPs.
2. Support the delivery of core services to schools.
3. Undertake a range of assessment and intervention services related to special educational needs.
4. Deliver training for schools, families and others.
5. Develop a range of experience and skills in preparation for training as an Educational Psychologist.
This is a great opportunity for you to make a start on your journey towards becoming an EP if you:
1. Have strong written and oral communication skills.
2. Are enthusiastic about building new and collaborative models of working with qualified EPs.
3. Are committed to developing strong mainstream inclusive practice and local solutions to meeting diverse needs.
4. Are committed to promoting positive practice and challenging structural discrimination.
5. Want to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people.
6. Can demonstrate enthusiasm and good humour.
Applications are invited from people with a good honours degree in Psychology.
The posts are available as soon as possible.
If you would like to know more about these posts please ring or email. You will receive a warm welcome.
Contact: Natalie Askham, Principal Educational Psychologist – telephone number 0114 506800.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria of this job are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Job details
Job reference: REQ003001
Date posted: 17/01/2025
Application closing date: 07/02/2025
Location: Sheffield
Salary Scale points: 2 £35,228 - £37,828
Package: 4 Permanent Positions
Contractual hours: 37
Job category/type: School Support
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