Job Description
An opportunity has arisen in North Tyneside to appoint two enthusiastic and resourceful permanent, full time, Educational Psychologists.
The successful candidates will have the opportunity to participate in an exciting array of work, including:
• Inclusion projects aimed at bringing about transformational change in schools, co-facilitated with school improvement colleagues.
• Early intervention programmes with colleagues in our Mental Health Support Team.
• Multi-agency work with HIVE, the team leading on improving outcomes for children in care, children with a social worker and children who have experienced trauma.
• Multi-agency work to support children and young people are identified as experiencing Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA).
Alongside the above mentioned opportunities, all our psychologists are allocated a selection of schools with whom they can build relationships and offer support at an individual, group and whole school community level. This work is delivered via our traded, service level agreement with schools and is always carefully negotiated with senior leaders.
We have successfully operated under a traded service arrangement with schools and other agencies since 2012 and have seen demand for the service grow year on year.
Our Service Level Agreement distinguishes between a core offer of non-chargeable services for fulfilling statutory duties and commissioned activity including:
• Consultative support to school staff, parents / carers
• Participatory action research and evaluative research
• Therapeutic support to children and young people 0 to 25 years
• Assessments of special educational needs and disabilities
• Assessment for special examination arrangements
• Design and implementation of personalised programmes of interventions
• Design and delivery group level interventions for with children, young people and school staff
• Design and delivery of workshops for parents / carers
• Delivery of staff training and professional development activities
• Bereavement and critical incident support to schools.
Requirements
2 years written references
Enhanced DBS
Eligibility to work in the UK
Masters or doctorate in Educational Psychology
Requirements
2 years written references Enhanced DBS Eligibility to work in the UK Masters or doctorate in Educational Psychology