Trainee Educational Psychologist

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
Kirklees
Children & Families
Learning & Early Support
In line with university training requirements
1
Across Kirklees
Temporary
Fixed Term for 2 years
Scale 1-3
£24,970 - £28,623
Essential Care User Allowance

Kirklees council has a strong commitment to continuing to provide excellent services to support its very diverse community and places high value on the educational psychology team’s involvement in this. Kirklees embraces workforce development and new entrants into the profession and as a consequence, is keen to recruit two creative and dynamic Trainee EPs to join and enhance our large friendly and enthusiastic team. This opportunity is open to trainees entering the 2nd or 3rd year of their training in September 2023.

Our service has a broad and continually expanding remit within the local authority with a strong drive to promote inclusive practice and enhance the learning of all children and young people.  Our model of delivery combines a balance of core and traded work, both highly valued by schools and partners.  We have a central role across the local authority in relation to social emotional and mental health being a lead partner in the Mental Health Support Teams in schools with a specific focus on the developing a whole school approach,  providing a broad training and development offer to schools in relation to supporting children in care and are in our third year of delivering the Alex Timpson programme  in which we support schools to develop and embed strong attachment aware and trauma informed practice. Additionally we train and supervise Emotional Literacy Support Assistants across a growing number of schools as well as provide training and support in relation to Therapeutic Story Writing and Storylinks, among other things.

Throughout your time with us we can guarantee excellent supervision, exciting and varied opportunities to develop your skills in applying psychology with colleagues who are both supportive and highly effective practitioners. If you are interested in this opportunity and can demonstrate professionalism, flexibility, enthusiasm and willingness to learn from the opportunities available to you from the outset we would love to hear from you.

Travel is an essential part of this job and therefore it would be extremely difficult for you to do your job effectively if you did not use a car for all or most of the time. It is essential that you hold a full and valid driving licence and have a car available for work (exceptions may be made for disabled candidates).

For any informal enquiries please email Dewsbury.psychology@kirklees.gov.uk or telephone 01924 483744 and a member of the senior leadership team will get back to you.

Click on the link to hear our current TEPs views about training and working in Kirklees: Trainee Education Psychologist Edit 2 - YouTube

Virtual interviews will take place on Monday 5th June 2023.

Jayne Whitton is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. 
This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level, please refer to the Job Description/Profile.  A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

If you are internal and want to apply for this job as a secondment you must be a substantive employee of the Council with over 6 months continuous service and have successfully completed your probation period.

Applications for secondments will only be accepted if approved by your manager, you will be asked to confirm on your application form that you have the relevant permission. If you are refused permission to apply for a secondment, please contact HR Recruitment to register the refusal.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

02 June 2023, 11:00 AM

Important Information

This vacancy is closed to applications.