Achieving for Children (Kingston & Richmond) - Educational Psychologist

EP Position available in Kingston and Richmond EPS (part of Achieving for Children, AfC)

We are a service that is highly valued within our organisation; our diverse and wide-ranging skills as psychologists are recognised, well understood and very much in demand.  We are also a service that successfully income generates and given the increased desire from our schools and partners for next year, we are looking for an enthusiastic and creative psychologist to join our supportive and innovative team.  Kingston and Richmond EPS are part of a Social Enterprise, Achieving for Children (AfC), which provides Children's Services to Kingston, Richmond and Windsor and Maidenhead.  It provides the security and benefits of working for a Local Authority, such as systemic and multi-disciplinary work, but has greater freedoms in its ability to trade and develop innovative practice. 

We are a large and supportive psychological team with a range of professional interests and experiences.  Our service protects time for systemic and early intervention work, as well as opportunities for training, joint working and projects.  The team is currently spearheading an Attachment Aware and Trauma Informed project with colleagues from the Virtual School across schools across Kingston and Richmond (this work will extend into the next academic year) and developing project work around executive functioning and TA support.  The service also has the standard offer around ELSA, SCERTS, workforce development training, and Early Years’ consultations.

As an Educational Psychologist for AfC you will be joining:

• An EP team which is highly regarded by schools and other services/organisations across Kingston and Richmond.
• A service which successfully commissions and trades with a wide range of stakeholders, allowing for creative and interesting systemic and early intervention opportunities.
• A service which keeps psychological theory and research at the forefront of all our practice and work, and is committed to providing a high-quality evidence-based psychological service to children and young people in our communities.
• A service which highly values professional development and service development. As such, we ensure there is protected time for all EPs to work collectively and systemically.  Our safeguarded time enables us to focus on training, service development, project work and early intervention.
• A service that is a well-established part of Kingston and Richmond schools’ assess, plan, do and review cycles ensuring that statutory activity is kept at a manageable level and focused on ‘making the difference’.

We have the flexibility for successful applicants to be based in either Kingston or Richmond, or a mixture of both.  If you are interested in finding out more or applying, please do look at our advert via this link; View vacancy details and/or get in contact with a member of our team.  Informal enquiries are more than welcomed and can be done via 020 8547 6698 or educational.psychology@achievingforchildren.org.uk

Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with the HCPC or be in their final year of training on a professional Educational Psychology Doctoral programme.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

NB. Applicants to note that this post is not paid on Soulbury terms and conditions.