Senior Educational Psychologist
The Diocese Of Canterbury Academies Trust, Canterbury, CT1 1NQ2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £68,296 - £76,004
What skills and experience we're looking for
Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with the HCPC
The full job description is available on Kent Teach at https://www.kent-teach.com/Recruitment/Vacancy/VacancyDetails.aspx?VacancyId=144159, and all applications should be made through the Kent Teach website.
What the school offers its staff
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Cycle to work scheme
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Further details about the role
SENIOR EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Aquila Pay Scale: APLi (£68,296 – £76,004)
Start Date: 1 September 2025
Do you want to work for a multi academy trust whose emphasis and practices are focussed on inclusion and equity? Aquila are a multi academy trust located in Kent. With 16 schools located across the county, and plans to grow, with some serving some of the most deprived communities, we are a group of schools with a keen commitment and focus on helping children and families achieve their potential.
Our trust has a well embedded and valued educational psychology offer to our schools, and since its start in 2018 have:
- Led on the training and development of 40 ELSAs across out Trust. Our ELSAs success and reputation have resulted in other schools and trust joining our training and supervision programme.
- Implemented VIG across the trust supporting schools and families.
- Developed the trust’s relational approaches across our school, through a Relational Policy. Aquila recently developed and implemented a Relational Policy across our schools, with the educational psychologist taking a lead for developing this valued and important area of work across our schools.
- Developed a training programme across our schools to support inclusion and equity of service, making sure they receive the educational resources they need to support children and families.
- Led on trauma-informed approaches across our schools.
In addition, you will have responsibility for:
- Leading the Trust on developing a value-led approach to inclusion across our schools
- Work with our SENCOs to make sure they have the training, knowledge and evidence, to ensure best practices for our children and families.
Aquila are recognised for their inclusive practices, both by Ofsted as well as the local authority. This role requires a high level of leadership skills and integrity to ensure all schools can support children and their families. In this role you will be responsible for setting a vision across our Trust, developing your own CPD requirements and contributing to the positive outcomes for all children across the Trust. The postholder will work in close collaboration with the Trust’s Assistant Educational Psychologist, Lead SENDCo and Senior Leaders.
The full job description is available on Kent Teach at https://www.kent-teach.com/Recruitment/Vacancy/VacancyDetails.aspx?VacancyId=144159, and all applications should be made through the Kent Teach website.
Applicants must be professionally qualified and registered with the HCPC
If you are interested in the role and wanted to discuss the job further, please contact our current Educational Psychologist Chris Clarke, at cclarke@aquilatrust.co.uk
The closing date is 14 April 2025, and interviews will be held on 22 April 2025.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust 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 keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment are 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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Diocese Of Canterbury Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- hr@aquilatrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01303 905100
The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust is an established and highly successful Multi-Academy Trust currently consisting of primary schools and expecting to grow over the coming years.
The Trust offers:
• outstanding mentoring and coaching
• full induction programme for all new staff
• excellent professional development opportunities
• an enviable track record of career progression
• collaborative working in a supportive team environment
We are committed to ensuring our academies work together, sharing their strengths, to provide a great education for every pupil. We believe learning must be engaging and relevant and develop the whole child. Our academies design their coverage of the curriculum to provide challenging and exciting learning experiences in a caring and nurturing environment which is based on our strong values. Our academies value every individual and celebrate differences through their culture of mutual trust and shared values.
We want to deliver and develop best practice through learning together and engaging with action research with Canterbury Christ Church University. We want our academies to serve their local communities through links with churches, each other and to develop wider networks enabling staff and pupils to flourish. Through developing leadership at all levels we want the pupils in our academies to become happy, successful, well rounded individuals who develop into lifelong learners.
We have an English Hub, Behaviour Hub and Associate Research School within our MAT and Aquila is a lead MAT for behaviour.
Arranging a visit to The Diocese Of Canterbury Academies Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@aquilatrust.co.uk.
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