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Senior Educational Psychologists

  • Play an active role in further developing our practices and promoting positive outcomes for children, young people (0-25), and families.
  • Supervise and line manage trainee and educational psychologists under the direction of the deputy and/or Principal Educational Psychologists.
  • Handle areas of whole-service and strategic work.
  • Provide expertise and drive performance to meet the needs of children, young people, and families in Hertfordshire in accordance with children’s services priorities.
  • Support operational planning, policy matters, and service delivery.
  • Work collaboratively with a range of partners in the delivery of our service.

Senior Practitioner Educational Psychologist

  • Collaborate within the context of the EPS and the multi-disciplinary Virtual School team.
  • Work between Hertfordshire’s Virtual School and the Educational Psychology Service.
  • Support the teams in promoting the education and well-being of all vulnerable children within the Virtual School remit.
  • Coordinate and delivering training.
  • Offer consultation to schools.
  • Work with individual children.


Educational Psychologists

  • Support children and young people aged 0 to 25, with a particular emphasis on SEND.
  • Deliver targeted, preventative, and statutory advice to enable service users to get the most out of their educational experiences.
  • Build capacity in schools through working systemically and using psychological frameworks.
  • Provide support for schools following a critical incident.

 We welcome applications from trainee EPs currently on the doctoral course.


Assistant Educational Psychologists

  • Provide support to EPs in appropriate areas of service delivery.
  • Assist EPs and independently deliver interventions and training to schools/educational settings.
  • Gain experience, skills, knowledge, and understanding of the role and professional practice of Educational Psychology, in preparation for formal postgraduate professional training in Educational Psychology.

Applications for our 2024 intake for assistant EPs are now closed. Please check back here in March 2025 for further updates.

 

We value:

  • Work/life balance and staff wellbeing
  • Flexibility of working practices
  • Prioritisation of professional and peer supervision, separate from line management
  • Keeping up to date with, and contributing to, research and evidence based practice
  • Staff views and collaboration to develop our service to promote the impact made to children and young people’s life outcomes