Interim Educational Psychologist x5 - Education Services
Reference no: Cornwall 5248714
Pay Rate: £492.27 per day PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: TRURO
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
Qualified Educational Psychologists to work across Cornwall virtually to complete 10 psychological advices in total per month. Work across Cornwall, doing remote, statutory Education, Health and Care assessments. This will require you to; be using a range of assessment materials that can be delivered virtually, carry out remote observations, meet with parents/carers, children and young people, school and setting staff, and other involved professionals through the use of video conferencing platforms such as Teams or Zoom.
You will be required to use the EHC assessment templates supplied by Cornwall Educational Psychology Service and work to specified time scales. This will be commissioned per advice. You will be given a Senior Educational Psychologist to report to who will be the conduit through which work is assigned, will be your key point of contact and will be able to direct you to relevant support services, e.g. business administration.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide consultation and specialist advice to parents/carers, staff in schools and settings and other professionals to support the successful inclusion of children with Special Educational Needs, Disabilities (SEND) and those from other vulnerable groups.
* Work jointly with children and young people, parents/carers, staff in schools and settings and other professionals to clarify the outcomes they want to achieve and to set up and monitor interventions to achieve these outcomes.
* Provide specialist assessments and/or observations, if required, in order to inform evidence-based interventions.
* Ensure that the views/preferences of children and young people are listened to as part of any assessment or intervention plan (regardless of the age or needs of the young person).
* Support schools and settings in following the SEND Code of Practice (2014) relating to Special Educational Needs and carry out statutory work as required. This will include providing Psychological Advice to the Local Authority as part of an Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment.
* Work in collaboration with voluntary agencies which support vulnerable groups of children, young people and their families in order to achieve better outcomes for these groups.
* Contribute to the training of Trainee Educational Psychologist on placement with the Educational Psychology Service.
* Promote and provide high quality traded work to a range of schools, education settings and partners. This work includes carrying out interventions, delivering training and completing work requested by schools or other organisations through Service Level Agreements, the Flexible Option or a commissioning arrangement.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles
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