Olive Branch Recruitment is working on behalf of a private organisation who deliver specialised therapeutic education services to young people and provide support for their families.

They have a requirement for a permanent Educational Psychologist - home based - to cover 8 schools across Staffordshire (3 schools) West Midlands (2 schools), Somerset (2 schools) & Cardiff (1 school). Visits to the schools can be conducted over 5 days in the month with the remaining time available for home-based assessments to be completed.

Salary £65,000 per annum + £3,600 car allowance.

Clinical

* Deliver educational psychology services to schools within your designated region.

* Provide specialist input on assessment, teaching, and special educational needs.

* Use a consultation model to help staff implement strategies that support emotional well-being and positive outcomes.

* Monitor progress and adjust interventions to ensure effectiveness.

* Support schools in identifying and addressing systemic needs with evidence-based approaches.

* Respond promptly to safeguarding concerns, following procedures and legal requirements.

* Offer psychological support during critical incidents, such as bereavement or crisis situations.

Training, Supervision, and Consultation

* Deliver tailored training on trauma-informed approaches and other psychology topics, including follow up support to embed practices in schools.

* Provide training on evidence-based interventions such as emotional literacy, social skills, and resilience building.

* Share insights from projects to promote best practices across internal and external teams.

* Develop training and workshop materials for your region and other Group services.

* Offer consultation and advice to colleagues on psychological assessments and interventions.

* Provide guidance on child trauma, attachment, and recovery across services.

* Supervise and support assistant psychologists and other team members.

* Deliver reflective supervision to Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) to support their well-being.

* Offer ad hoc supervision to school staff to promote emotional resilience.

* Support the setup and delivery of peer supervision in schools and within the clinical education team
.

Policy and Service Development

* Contribute a psychological perspective in clinical service development meetings.

* Support planning and delivery of services through agreed project work.

* Advise on areas where psychological needs should be addressed and help implement changes.

* Maintain effective communication with local authorities, NHS services, and other agencies.

Evaluation and Research

* Stay up to date with research to support evidence-based practice

* Help coordinate outcome measures across the service

* With approval, lead or support research on the care and education of children with complex needs

* Offer guidance on research design and methods to colleagues from other professions

About you

* Essential: Postgraduate qualification in Educational Psychology — a minimum of a Master's degree if qualified before 2007, or a completed or in-progress Doctorate for those qualifying after.

* Essential: An understanding of the UK educational system and of legislation, national guidelines

* Essential: Experience of providing consultation, training, support and supervision

* Essential: Ability to assess and manage risk and make complex judgements about risk issues

* Desirable: Previous experience of working with independent special schools