ATV Anchor Educational Psychologist
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £49,789 to £57,954 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 August 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, RG30 4NP |
| Company: | Oxfordshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | OCC/TP/1340/1155 |
Summary
About Us
ATV Anchor team is a multi-disciplinary therapeutic team offering holistic, evidence based, psychological support for adoptive families across the ATV region.
A new team, Anchor was successful in securing government funding to set up a centre of excellence, a service embedded within Adopt Thames Valley, aiming to offer highly specialised, accessible, integrated support to our families.
About The Role
One year in, we are looking for a new Educational Psychologist to join our dynamic team, alongside Clinical Psychology, Occupational Therapy and Therapeutic social work colleagues.
We believe in the importance of offering high quality, multi-disciplinary therapeutic support to some of our most vulnerable families, families whose needs are often not understood within the context of other agencies. We have built a team, rooted in an understanding of developmental trauma, with a strong relational ethos and a commitment to improving the knowledge and skills of all those working with adoptive families across the region.
We recognise the high level of educational need of the children and young people we work with and are committed to being able to provide specialised Educational Psychologist intervention at both an individual and a strategic level, to meet such need.
Contract Type Fixed term until 31/3/2027 with the aim of becoming a permanent position.
About You
We are looking for an individual who can provide specialised assessment and school-based intervention for young people. Who is confident at supporting school staff to understand the needs of adoptive children. Who can offer training and consultation to embed such knowledge, whilst working strategically across the region to engage partner organisations in understanding and meeting the needs of our children.
Are you the right person to join us for this journey? Our hope being that our success means that we will be able to secure longer term funding.
This is just the beginning. If you are interested in both the opportunity to play a strategic role in the ongoing development of a new service and the chance to work with young people and families who have experienced developmental trauma, then please get in touch to discuss further.
Adopt Thames Valley Regional Adoption Agency launched in December 2017 and is the shared Adoption Service for Bracknell Forest, Oxfordshire, Reading Borough Council (Brighter Futures for Children), The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (Achieving for Children), Swindon Borough Council, West Berkshire Borough Council and Wokingham Borough Council.
This post provides the opportunity to be part of a creative, supportive and innovative team which is committed to providing holistic, preventative, multi-disciplinary support to adoptive and special guardianship families and to supporting the systems around them. You will have access to a strong support and supervision network and opportunities for training and development.
Rewards and benefits:
- Culture of flexible working
- Technology tosupportagile working where role permits
- Up to 33 day’s holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
- Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeingsupport
- Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9% and life assurance.
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
- Great learning and development opportunities tosupportyour ongoing development
Ourcommitmentto:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce.Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peersupport, education and safe spaces for all.
Ourcommitmentto:
Guaranteed Interview Schemes
As a DisabilityConfidentemployer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job.We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships.We are alsocommittedto helping andsupportingthose transitioning from HM ArmedForcesto civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service.
Ourcommitmentto:
Safeguarding
Oxfordshire County Council arecommittedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers tosharethiscommitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect these commitments.
Ourcommitmentto:
Flexible Working
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, full time and part time working, jobsharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.
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