Pay
We pay on the Soulbury Educational Psychologist scale. Our salary scale for main grade EPs is Soulbury Scale A 2-7, which is currently equivalent to £40,838 - £50,584, plus up to 3 Structured Professional Assessment points.
We are looking for skilled and creative professionals to join our educational psychology team.
We are an incredibly friendly and supportive team of 33 educational psychologists (EPs) who work well together to support schools and settings, children, young people and families throughout West Sussex. In addition to our 33 EPs, we currently have two assistant psychologists and will have two trainees on placements with us in 2022/23.
There are four area teams - two based in Worthing and two in Horsham.
The EPS is an integral part of the West Sussex SEND and Inclusion service and supports the delivery of the Local Authority’s wellbeing strategy and Special Educational Needs and Disability strategy across educational settings, children, young people and families throughout West Sussex. The EPS directly oversees the Portage Service and the Mental Health Support Teams in schools, with Education Psychologists playing an important role in both.
We have a growing chargeable service focussed on wellbeing which enables us to offer a range of evidence-based support to schools and other settings. This includes person-centred approaches, group supervision, consultation and training.
We have a well-developed Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) programme and lead on the county wide Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) support. In addition, EPs contribute to other services such as our Virtual School, adoption and fostering teams, a specialist CAMHS service and play an important role in our Mental Health Support Teams in Schools.
We pay on the Soulbury Educational Psychologist scale. Our salary scale for main grade EPs is Soulbury Scale A 2-7, which is currently equivalent to £40,838 - £50,584, plus up to 3 Structured Professional Assessment points.
Educational psychologist's benefits
We use team time to listen to and share with one another, and to learn to support our work as applied psychologists.
We have three full service days per year to further support this. Two of these annual days are organised and planned by area educational psychologist (EPs) teams to reflect relevant areas of interest and development within the teams.
Recent team days have involved external speakers in the areas of race and culture and bereavement support.
The third annual day is organised and presented by the EPs Senior Management Team to focus upon service and local authority developments.
Find out more about working in educational psychology at West Sussex County Council.
Andrea Morgan (Interim Principal Educational Psychologist).