Senior Practitioner Educational Psychologist

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 Hours per week, however part-time applications are welcome.

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Soulbury Scale B 2-3 (£54,609 - £56,540) plus up to 3 SPA points. pro rata for part-time.

Location: Dragon Court, 1 Woolsthorpe Close, Nottingham, NG8 3BP

We've got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you've been looking for? Read on to find out more...

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

Nottingham City EPS

Working in Nottingham means working in a culturally vibrant and diverse city. We have a strong tradition of working collaboratively and creatively to improve the inclusion of all children in our city, and this is highly regarded by our settings and the Council. Our team is warm, friendly and reflective, and we value a range of professional practices and contributions that help to improve children's lives.

Our dynamic approach ensures EPs mainly engage in traded and early intervention work, with a small portion of time dedicated to statutory duties, offering a varied and engaging work experience. All members of the team have time to be involved in delivering training (such as ELSA), projects or other development work within the service and across the City and regularly work together to facilitate processes such as Circles of Adults and MAPs.

About the Role

Senior Practitioner EPs are part of our extended leadership team. As well as providing a high quality offer to local settings, children and families, they also hold leadership responsibility for a defined aspect of service delivery. Specific areas of responsibility are negotiable but will be linked with current or emerging priorities within the local area. Successful candidates can expect to lead key initiatives within the service, as well as be engaged in problem solving with local stakeholders to analyse and develop responses to such issues.

In addition to leading on an aspect of service delivery, Senior Practitioner EPs also provide supervision to our Year 2 and 3 Trainee Educational Psychologists.

We are looking for qualified Educational Psychologists who are ready to take on their first leadership role or who are looking to take on new challenges.

The equivalent of 1.6 Senior Practitioner Educational Psychologist posts are available.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong leadership abilities
• Skills for planning and delivering change
• Commitment to service improvement
• A consultative, problem-solving approach
• Creative approach to psychological practice
• Excellent written communication, IT skills, and organisational skills

- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Becky Drew, Senior Educational Psychologist, by email at Becky.Drew@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: 2nd of February 2025

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: 11th February 2025

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.