Salary: Up to £60,690 per annum pro rata, plus 3% recruitment payment + relocation support up to £8,000.

Location: Within North Yorkshire. The service very much promotes flexible working with the ability to work remotely from a range of bases across North Yorkshire, as well as working from home. We provide exceptional technology, providing all the equipment to support home based working, whatever makes sense and is suitable to provide the best service.
Hours: Full time 
Contract: Established

We are looking for an Area Senior Educational Psychologist to join our team, working within either the Harrogate or Selby SEND hub.

This is a great time to be joining our service, in April 2020 we created locality based hubs of SEND professionals, including SEN caseworkers, educational psychologists, specialist teachers and practitioners, together with speech and language therapists and occupational therapists. Based within four localities across North Yorkshire, the hubs are responsible for working closely with schools and settings to identify children early and to ensure they receive appropriate support and interventions to meet their special educational needs.

You will contribute to the ongoing development of the Service and contribute to the further development of the Hubs in meeting the needs of children with SEND and building capacity across professional and education settings. You will be responsible for the line management and professional supervision of Educational Psychologists in the hub and for undertaking and monitoring casework ensuring it is of high quality and appropriate to need.

To be successful you must have a masters or doctorate level qualification in Educational Psychology and be registered with the HCPC; have experience of varied and relevant work with children, young people and their families in a number of education and other settings; be creative and forward thinking with the   knowledge, skills, enthusiasm and willingness to use psychological frameworks to facilitate positive change; have experience of supervising and/or line managing staff.

In return, we can offer you a range of employee benefits, including a competitive salary, generous leave entitlement, a government pension scheme and access to our ‘Everybody Benefits’ package, which includes a variety of retail discounts.

You will be fully enabled through mobile kit to work in a highly agile way at locations across the local authority.

We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including:

·       Modern flexible working practices;

·       A local government pension scheme;

·       Family friendly leave;

·       Salary sacrifice, employee cash backs and discounts schemes; and

·       Learning, development and career advancement opportunities.

We can offer you multiple opportunities for career progression working across diverse services and with access to a range of technologies to support modern and agile ways of working.

Key Documents

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Job description / person specification

Key Dates

Closing date: Sunday 9th October

Interview date: Tbc

For further information about the post please contact Cerys Townend (Head of Inclusion) via email cerys.townend@northyorks.gov.uk or by calling 07971 285 951 for an informal conversation

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post. 

NYCC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies. 

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.