Package Description

Educational Psychologist

Salary - up to £63,000 Pro Rata (dependant on experience)

Location - Home based with travel required to schools within your region.

Ideal part time post holder locations - Birmingham, Worcester, Gloucester

Hours - 2.5 days per week 

Join a collaborative and progressive team of Educational Psychologists and Assistant Educational Psychologists dedicated to empowering young people and those who support them. We are passionate about helping children thrive through approaches grounded in an understanding of trauma and strong relationships, ensuring every learner feels supported, included, and truly understood.

You'll deliver educational psychology services to schools in your region, working creatively and systemically through consultation, direct work with young people, and staff training to support lasting change. At Keys, we prioritise professional development and research, encouraging regular CPD and exploration of relevant interests.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape and grow our educational psychology service, enhancing the support we provide to children and teams. You'll work closely with our Principal EP, Assistant Psychologists, and clinical colleagues such as SALTs and OTs. There will be ongoing opportunities to contribute to service development locally and nationally, as well as to provide supervision. You'll be part of a friendly, inclusive, and collaborative multi-disciplinary team making a real difference.

Clinical

• Deliver educational psychology services to schools within your designated region.
• Provide specialist input on assessment, teaching, and special educational needs.
• Use a consultation model to help staff implement strategies that support emotional well-being and positive outcomes.
• Monitor progress and adjust interventions to ensure effectiveness.
• Support schools in identifying and addressing systemic needs with evidence-based approaches.
• Respond promptly to safeguarding concerns, following procedures and legal requirements.
• Offer psychological support during critical incidents, such as bereavement or crisis situations.

Training, Supervision, and Consultation

• Deliver tailored training on trauma-informed approaches and other psychology topics, including follow up support to embed practices in schools.
• Provide training on evidence-based interventions such as emotional literacy, social skills, and resilience building.
• Share insights from projects to promote best practices across internal and external teams.
• Develop training and workshop materials for your region and other Keys Group services.
• Offer consultation and advice to colleagues on psychological assessments and interventions.
• Provide guidance on child trauma, attachment, and recovery across services.
• Supervise and support assistant psychologists and other team members.
• Deliver reflective supervision to Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) to support their well-being.
• Offer ad hoc supervision to school staff to promote emotional resilience.
• Support the setup and delivery of peer supervision in schools and within the clinical education team.

Policy and Service Development

• Contribute a psychological perspective in clinical service development meetings.
• Support planning and delivery of services through agreed project work.
• Advise on areas where psychological needs should be addressed and help implement changes.
• Maintain effective communication with local authorities, NHS services, and other key agencies.

Evaluation and Research

• Stay up to date with research to support evidence-based practice and the Keys Connect model
• Help coordinate outcome measures across the service
• With approval, lead or support research on the care and education of children with complex needs
• Offer guidance on research design and methods to colleagues from other professions

About you

• Essential: Postgraduate qualification in Educational Psychology — a minimum of a Master's degree if qualified before 2007, or a completed or in-progress Doctorate for those qualifying after.
• Essential: An understanding of the UK educational system and of legislation, national guidelines
• Essential: Experience of providing consultation, training, support and supervision
• Essential: Ability to assess and manage risk and make complex judgements about risk issues
• Desirable: Previous experience of working with independent special schools.
   
   

Due to the nature of the role, it is necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken (DBS).

Keys Group are very proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant that means we have made a commitment to welcoming service personnel, veterans and military families into the group. We are delighted to have veteran friendly policies, offer a Veterans Peer Support Network within our teams and are able to offer Military Awareness and support to our colleagues.

As part of our commitment, we will offer a guaranteed interview to current and former service personnel providing that they meet the criteria of the role that they are applying for. If you feel that you meet the criteria for this, please ensure that you have your military experience detailed on your CV for one of our resourcing team to get in touch.

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