Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 20 May 2024
Closing Date: Sunday 5 May 2024
Contract Type: Permanent (5 posts available)
Salary: £56,511 - £69,246
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week
Location: Fife House, Glenrothes, Cupar County Buildings or Kings Road Primary School, Rosyth
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you an excellent candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement.
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
- How you have used your knowledge, skills and understanding of educational psychology theory and practice to bring about improvement(s).
- How you have managed challenging, complex situations in your work as an EP.
- Evidence of effective collaborative working with EP colleagues.
- Your ability to build capacity in school systems, through supporting the development of others, to have an impact on our most vulnerable children and young people.
- Partnership working which has led to a positive impact on outcomes for children and young people.
Selection Process:
Candidates should be aware that we will be running a mandatory in-person selection process involving several elements including a group discussion task and individual interview which will require you to be available for one full day within Fife. We intend to provide an option to select a preference for the day you attend, however this process will be organised on a first-come-first-served basis. Please contact the lead recruiter (see end of advert for contact details) if you have particular support needs or queries relating to this process.
Job Details
We are looking for highly skilled and motivated educational psychologists who are passionate about improving life chances for all, with a particular focus on those young people who are most vulnerable and at risk of poor outcomes.
As an Educational Psychologist in Fife, you will join a dynamic Educational Psychology Service that offers a comprehensive induction and supervision programme. There is a strong commitment to supporting the professional development of all staff and the service is currently involved in a wide range of research and development opportunities across the Education Directorate and with multi-agency partners.
These include:
- A refresh of Fife Council’s ASL Strategy, building on the recommendations in the national ASL Review: All our Children and All Their Potential.
- A Fife-wide roll-out of the Neurodevelopmental Pathway, an innovative new approach to multi-agency assessment, intervention, staff training and parental support for young people who may have neurodevelopmental differences.
- Our ‘Learning with Care’ project, in partnership with Social Work colleagues, committing to improve educational experiences and outcomes for Care Experienced young people.
- Supporting our schools to integrate the national Counselling in Schools initiative into an integrated support system for all young people who would benefit from support for their emotional wellbeing.
- FCEPS is a large service with a range of opportunities for distributed leadership and developing innovative professional practices. We have support systems for new entrants to the profession, several experienced supervisors on the BPS Register of Supervisors and staff familiar with the Qualification in Educational Psychology (QEP), British Psychological Society (BPS) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) processes, enabling us to support psychologists to benefit from high quality professional supervision.
- We have a clear identity and purpose as a service, a leadership style characterised by the promotion of professional autonomy within a culture of collective responsibility, as outlined in How We Work.
- We operate a blended approach to work within FCEPS which incorporates office working, fieldwork and home working as part of your working week. Our core team working day is a Tuesday where our staff are office based to ensure team time and internal networking opportunities are built into our work.
A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.
The Person
Recent and relevant experience of Educational Psychology practice.
Honours Degree in Psychology, conferring basis for graduate membership of the BPS and a postgraduate qualification in Educational Psychology.
A high level of interpersonal, organisational and consultation skills and abilities which will enable you to demonstrate professional autonomy within a culture of collective responsibility to our service and our stakeholders.
The ability to work on your own initiative with appropriate assertiveness.
Practice consistent with our service's aims and priorities.
Demonstrable success in collaborative working, and success in working within agreed professional guidelines.
A commitment to your own professional learning as an educational psychologist through career-long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has impacted on your practice.
You are required to be fully registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or to be on track to complete your qualification in Educational Psychology, which will ensure you are eligible to register with the HCPC; to model all behaviour expected of an Educational Psychologist in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards.
Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Further Information
- Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
- How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.
- Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.
- Directorate Information - Council Department information
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We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time.
For further information please contact: Adam Brown - adam.brown@fife.gov.uk
We are holding a Fife Council jobs fair on 15th May 10am - 2pm at Rothes Halls, Glenrothes. We will be on hand to talk about the vacancies we have on offer and what it's like to work with the council. There will also be a chance to get support from our job clubs and employability teams and can offer help with the online application process. Please pop along on the day to find out more.
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