Senior Educational Psychologist

About the role

We are looking for someone who has a desire to use their EP skills at operational levels of the EP team and in the LA and who wants to be a leader of innovative practice and service improvement.  We want someone who cares about our team and will use their skills and abilities to benefit the team and its work.

The PEP, along with DPEP and Seniors, make explicit the containing functions of both leadership and management to running a good service and the wellbeing of the team. We invest in time to develop leadership and management skills and all members of the senior leadership team have attended external leadership courses. Understanding supervision and line management is also supported through our peer supervision, SLT meetings, and external training.  If you are looking for a promoted post into Senior EP, we will support your development into this role.

As Senior EP you will be responsible for the line management and supervision of a group of EPs.  You will support the implementation and delivery of the Service Development Plan. You will lead on areas and be the key person for gathering and disseminating information in that area. We have three senior EP positions and one DPEP position in our establishment and examples of lead areas are: SEMH, TEP Experience, Neurodivergent Needs, EDI, and more.  All Senior EPs will have an allocation of traded, EHCNA, project/commissioned tasks, and management tasks.

Actively Anti-Racist Practice

Our team, from TEPs to PEP, are committed to delivering active anti-racist practice in all our interactions.  Becoming Actively Anti-Racist EPs was given priority CPD and Service Development time in academic year 2023-24.  Examples of our priorities for this year are:

• All EPs can describe how being actively anti-racist is demonstrated through the five functions of the EP (consultation, assessment, intervention, training, and research).
• EPs can demonstrate racial fluency and use a shared vocabulary across our five functions.
• EPs can write provision which explicitly addresses the needs of Black children, e.g., racial identity development and belonging.

Anyone applying for our job will be required to demonstrate their commitment to this work. Wherever you are in your own personal and professional anti-racist practice journey, we will commit to supporting you to your next step.  Our expectation is that if you want to work in our team, then you will want to work in this way too.

More information

For an informal discussion about this job, please contact Sue.Franklin@lewisham.gov.uk for a telephone call.

• Closing date: Friday 7th February 23:59pm
• Interview date: Monday 24th February 2025
• Locations:
  • 32 Rushey Green, London, SE6 4JF
    or
  • 1 Catford Road, London, SE6 4RU