Educational Psychologists: Full-time or Part-time Permanent posts
Are you looking for an Educational Psychology Service that delivers more than statutory work and is embedded in SEND Reform developments? Would you like a role where innovation is valued, and you can be part of service improvements? Do you like to work creatively with colleagues in a range of applied educational psychology work in a multi-disciplinary context?
We are looking for Educational Psychologists who are passionate about preventative local authority work to join our creative and experienced team on innovative service delivery at this exciting time for the Educational Psychology profession. With a focus on early identification and intervention work, we think that Brighton & Hove Educational Psychology Service is a service that can satisfy your professional needs.
Year 2 and 3 trainee EPs are welcome to apply.
Interview date: 9th July 2026 at Portslade Hub, Mile Oak Road, BN41 2PG
For an informal discussion, please contact:
About the role
Our Educational Psychology Service has strong leadership and is well respected in Brighton & Hove. We like to innovate and have developed supportive tools for our practitioners and settings, such as our Attachment Aware Behaviour Regulation Policy Guidance and ATTEND guidance, a robust process for understanding EBSA, and we have been partners in development of key documents including Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice. We deliver SENCo support through forums, induction, leadership, training, reflective practice, and supervision.
Opportunities to develop your own interests in psychology is a key part of our service development. We support a range of local strategies, projects and developments including Education & Learning Inclusion working groups, Anti-Racist Strategy, Autism in Schools, Support Bases, and mental health support across age stages. EPs work collaboratively with Brighton & Hove Inclusion Support Service (BHISS) teams including early years, autism, language, VI & deafness, literacy and SEMH. We also work within the Virtual School, Adolescent Service, and with all special schools and specialist provisions.
We are continuing to expand our team as a response to our strategic leaders understanding the need for psychology to support all areas of SEND and Inclusion, beyond the statutory role. We have collaborative CPD days across the year and our service plan is developed with the team. Everyone’s view is valued. Past years have focused on measuring the impact of our prevention work, becoming anti-racist practitioners, consultation model, developing robust assessment and intervention practice such as ELSA training, Emotion Coaching, VIG, motivational interviewing, and dynamic assessment.
Benefits include:
Well established peer supervision model and regular supervision with your line manager
Working together on service development
Opportunities to develop leadership roles and areas of interest
Flexible working arrangements and trust in professional autonomy
Comprehensive induction and CPD programme
Our team members tell us that supportive colleagues, team spirit, breadth of work, creativity, relationships with schools and opportunity to develop as a psychologist are all real strengths of the service. We nourish an inclusive culture.
All practising Educational Psychologists in the UK must be registered with the HCPC.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.
We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.
All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
