Educational Psychologist
Abbot's Lea School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L25 6EEThis job expired on 4 October 2021 – see similar jobs
Closing date
4 October 2021 at 10am
Date listed
14 September 2021
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
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- 8:30am-4pm Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week for either 52 weeks per year or 39 weeks per year (Term Time only)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Soulbury Scale A 6-11 (£47,899 to £56,554) full time
Educational Psychologist job summary
This is an exciting new role within Abbot’s Lea School, reporting to the Head of Care and
Safeguarding.
We are looking to appoint a suitably qualified, experienced and motivated Educational Psychologist to lead a newly appointed team of therapists in ensuring therapeutic support is embedded within our teaching and students receive the therapeutic interventions they need to thrive.
Line managing a Psychotherapist, Speech and Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist your team will work together to ensure students receive the support they need to prepare them for learning.
We are committed to the application of psychological principles, theories and skills, and the
dissemination of research findings to improve outcomes for children and young people, aged 3 to 19. We believe families and children are experts on their own experiences; we seek to understand their perspectives and place them at the heart of our work.
You will need to be an effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and have a sound knowledge about current practice in Educational Psychology and legislation regarding special educational needs.
You will be joining a team of reflective practitioners who value professional development and strong peer support to ensure that we consistently develop and maintain skills and knowledge. As a member of the team, you will be well supported through regular supervision, opportunities to develop areas of interest and collaborative working with colleagues.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to bring your knowledge, experience, enthusiasm and initiative to apply psychology within a specialist school setting. You will have the opportunity to assess and support students on their journey through the school and witness their growth and development first hand.
All support, guidance and great future career prospects will be available to the successful candidate.
Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with the HCPC
For the posts advertised, you must:
• Be able to meet key accountabilities set out in Job Description and Person Specification
• Have experience working with students or young people with autism
• Be able to use ICT effectively
• Have excellent organisational skills
• Have excellent communication and team working skills
• Good levels of literacy and numeracy
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Abbot's Lea School
- School type
- Special school, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 271 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Abbot's Lea School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- tom.noonan@abbotsleaschool.co.uk
Abbot’s Lea School is a large and highly successful special school educating nearly 300 students aged 3-19, who, due to their Autism and associated learning differences, require significant specialist support to succeed academically and achieve their full potential.
The school’s mission statement is to be the International Centre of Excellence for Autism.
We ensure outstanding outcomes for all of our students through our unique Philosophy of Education – The ASD Model © which underpins our promotion of:
A – academic progress
S – specialist support
D – development of life skills
We are already an outstanding school (Ofsted, 2016) and now we wish to be the best!
Arranging a visit to Abbot's Lea School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tom.noonan@abbotsleaschool.co.uk.
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