Educational Psychologist

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.