Southend-on-Sea City Council
Location
Southend on Sea, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
Southend City Council have a great opportunity for a forward thinking, driven and compassionate individual to join the Educational Psychologist team who are committed to providing a first class service to the children and families with SEND.
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority employing around 1,800 staff working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend. Southend itself is a vibrant place to live and work, offering coastal living alongside excellent and fast transport links into London.The team is committed to working together with parents and carers, education settings and partner agencies to ensure children and young people with SEND are given the best opportunity to thrive and succeed.
The Assistant Educational Psychologist post is a supportive post to qualified Educational Psychologists and offers experience of the role invaluable for application to the EP Training Programme. Assistant EPs assist with core, traded, and statutory work with children aged 0 to 25 years, and accessing educational provision. Assistants will join EPs in working at the individual, group, and organisational level, assessing and observing individual young people, meeting with relevant professionals, working alongside parents and carers, devising intervention programmes, evaluating special educational needs and provision, making and disseminating useful resources, and training. Assistant EPs will have a role in the generic EP Schools Service, but will also work in the new Emotional Wellbeing Service that will be developed within the wider EP Service. This will means similar work to that mentioned above but in relation to primary needs around social, emotional, and mental health needs.
For an informal discussion, please contact Melanie Adkins, Principle Educational Psychologist at [email protected]
To be considered for this post candidates must possess a Psychology Degree BSc with possibility for Graduate Basis of Registration with the British Psychological Society.
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working, salary car sacrifice scheme and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training. A full list of benefits provided by Southend Council can be viewed on the "Why Work For Us?" tab.
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Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.
All applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.
The Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief.
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