Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Educational Psychologist to work in Guernsey on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Educational Psychologist job is £75,000 - £85,000 per annum.
Main Duties:
- To make a broad and positive contribution to Inclusion Teams in line with key strategic priorities.
- To enable the Department to fulfil its statutory duties relating to children and young people who have, or may have, special educational needs.
- To deliver psychological services involving the application of specialist skills and expertise, to provide support and challenge to schools and other settings with a view to promoting best outcomes for vulnerable learners and in line
- with the Government of Jersey Inclusion Policy.
- To support the planning and management of effective transitions for vulnerable learners (aged 0-19 years).
- To support and inform the development of enabling and collaborative networks between professionals, learners, schools and other settings. A commitment to multi-professional working.
- To work in partnership with other teams forming The Psychology and Wellbeing Service.
- To inspire parental confidence through working in close partnership.
To promote the voice and participation of children and young people in all aspects of the role and to fully engage with children and young people, recognising their role as client and stakeholder. - To ensure that issues relating to equality of opportunity and child protection are paramount within the role of the educational psychologist, and that all island-wide procedures are adhered to.
- To develop a lead role with a view to supporting and assisting Inclusion service managers in the development, co-ordination and delivery of strategy, policy and projects in this area.
Requirements of the Educational Psychologist:
- BSC in Psychology (must be a degree course recognised by the British Psychological Society (BPS))
- Education Doctorate in Educational Psychology
- and/or master’s degree in educational psychology.
- Registered with the Health Professions Council as an Educational Psychologist.
- Enhanced DBS.
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Knowledge and understanding of relevant guidance, good practice and research in the area of mental health and well- being in schools (prevention/ early intervention), including function and service delivery models for school- based counselling services, primary mental health workers and well- being facilitators.
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Understanding of the delivery of high performance and continuous improvement in services to children, young people and families. Practical knowledge of co- ordinating and responding to critical incidents in schools.
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Significant project activity (planning, co-ordinating, delivering, reviewing).
- A good understanding of children’s Safeguarding issues.
Contact:
This Educational Psychologistjob is advertised by Jenni Regnault; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
