About Us:

Working as part of Children’s Services will provide a challenging and rewarding career. We have high ambitions for the children and young people of Kensington and Chelsea.  We have formed a bi-borough Children’s Services team with colleagues from Westminster City Council. Our services, which include education, family services and safeguarding, have been rated Outstanding by Ofsted, and our drive to be the best doesn’t stop there.  By working with us, you will have the opportunity to make a difference to young people in one of the world’s most diverse cities.
If you would like to play a part in this unique team, please take a look at the vacancies below. 

The Role:

The Bi-Borough EPCS brings together the educational psychology services of the two London boroughs - Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.  It is based at Kensington Town Hall in Central London, the service has over 25 individual educational psychologists.  There is a rich variety of experience, expertise and approaches within the team and a strong history of embedding practice within a consultation framework.  The successful applicant(s) will be based in an area team, but there will be opportunities to work across the Bi-Borough area.  An important focus for our work is the development of our Traded Offer and consolidating our support for the implementation of the Children and Families Act 2014, in particular Education Health and Care Plan Assessments and wider school support.

For more information about the role, please see the full Job Description. 

About You:

• A fully qualified educational psychologist registered with Social Work England, or eligible for such registration.
• Committed to making a difference to the achievement and well-being of children and young people and their families and schools.
• A reflective and self aware practitioner, committed to evidence based and/or informed practice and evaluating the effectiveness of your work.
• Committed to ensuring the voice and views of children and young people and their families are heard.
• Someone who relishes diversity, and is committed to providing opportunities to children and families from a diverse community.

Role Requirements:

• To deliver a targeted and specialist psychological service of consultation, assessment (including psychometric summative approaches), advice, planning and development work to a designated grouping (‘patch’) of schools (that makes a positive difference to a range of clients including head teachers, teachers, parents/carers, pupils and other practitioners). 
• To make available consultation, staff development and training to ensure that schools and early years staff have the knowledge and skills that they need to deliver high quality teaching and support for learning to all students, including those with SEN and/or other barriers to their learning and development. 
• To quantitatively and qualitatively monitor and evaluate interventions used in schools with students and to communicate examples of good practice. 
• To contribute to a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the outcomes achieved by the Tri-borough Educational Psychology Service (Annual survey of consumer feedback).  
• To provide high quality advice to the local authority, including statutory psychological advice, as required by the SEN legislation and Code of Practice (September 2014). 
• To provide the local authority with advice about the needs of children and young people in the context of appeals to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDisT) and to give evidence at SENDisT hearings where required. 
• To work with other educational psychologists and colleagues to develop policies and effective evidence based/informed practice that lead to improvements in the social and learning opportunities for children and young people and contribute to raising standards across Tri-borough schools. 
• To develop expertise in at least one designated specialist area of educational and child psychology. 
• To contribute to the Service’s systems for supervision, appraisal and consultation for educational psychologists.  
• To develop the Service’s preventative role, including contribution to in-service initiatives and undertaking research and development projects in identified areas of need. 
• In order to carry out these duties effectively the post holder will be required to maintain ongoing personal professional development in relation to new developments in Psychology and Education 

We work in partnership with Hampshire County Council (HCC) who deliver many transactional services on our behalf. Although most communications will be from HCC, all selection and appointment decisions will be made by RBKC. Certain services are shared across more than one Council area to nearby neighbouring Authorities. This enhances delivery and reduces costs. Your recruitment information will advise if your remit extends beyond RBKC.

We will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.