Educational Psychologist
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,465 to £67,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | WS11 0LG |
| Company: | Sanctuary Personnel |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 210588-43033 |
Summary
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a full-time Educational Psychologist based in Cannock.
The salary for this permanent Educational Psychologist role is £57,465 - £67,000.
Main Duties:
• Working alongside other Therapists and Psychologists, the post-holder will ensure that the therapeutic needs of children and young people who attend a Horizon school are understood and interventions are planned and delivered to support these identified needs. They will provide therapeutic understanding of the young people to the wider team around the child including Teachers and TAs through consultation and training opportunities.
• Engage with children/young people and colleague to promote constructive working relationships.
• Provide consultation, support and guidance to colleague to develop therapeutically informed relationships with young people and to develop appropriate behaviour support and care planning strategies.
• Delivery of a psychological service to a number of schools, settings, and psychological advice to the Education team and local authority
• Develop and contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of therapeutic and psychological training.
• Deliver evidence based therapeutic and psychologically led care which conforms to their own ethical standards and is in line with Horizon's Values and SHINE Therapeutic Model of Care.
• Undertake appropriate CPD activities in order to maintain HCPC standards of proficiency
Must Haves:
• Full UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle.
• Doctorate in Educational Psychology.
• Post qualification training in dyslexia/dyscalculia assessment.
• Horizon's Values: Compassionate, Inspiring, Dependable and Collaborative.
• Clear and concise communication skills.
• Experience of working with Children and Young People or relevant transferrable skills.
• Knowledge and skills of psychotherapeutic approaches, relevant to Looked after Children.
• Knowledge of legislation in relations to trauma, young people, mental health, or Looked after Children.
• Understanding of Ofsted regulations for Independent Schools.
• Professional registration as an Educational Psychologist with the BPS/HCPC
Benefits:
• Real Living Wage employer
• Competitive pay rates
• Christmas bonus
• Blue Light Card
• Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to £2500 per referral!*
• Financial wellbeing service
• Life Assurance
• Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions!
• Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development.
• Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.
• Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.
• Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
• Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support via Bupa.
• Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together.
• Supportive management and senior leaders.
• High quality CPD opportunities.
• Free eye checks
Contact:
This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme