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Are you an experienced Educational Psychologist seeking a new opportunity to make a positive impact on children and young people's lives?
We have two vacancies for Senior Educational Psychologists to join the Defence Children Services organisation based in Wiltshire. You will play a vital role in supporting and improving the educational outcomes of children and young people in Service Families. These are dynamic and exciting roles providing the opportunity to travel to our overseas locations and work with the wider Defence community.
Who are we?
Defence Children Services (DCS) has staff working in Military establishments across the world. Our services include the provision of advice, guidance and support concerning the education and safeguarding for service families in the United Kingdom and across the world. This includes operating MOD schools and settings for the children of Defence personnel (Service and Civilian) serving overseas.
All our activities are crafted to meet the effective education needs of our children and families, mitigating the challenges of mobility and promoting the positive opportunities of service life. Your contribution to this is essential and invaluable.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
As a Senior Educational Psychologist, you will make a huge difference to Defence by assessing, prior to posting, whether children's educational needs can be met in an overseas environment, and in responding to emerging needs of children already overseas.
If you need to contact Defence Business Services (DBS) regarding this vacancy, please indicate that your vacancy is being handled by Resourcing Team 1. If you experience any technical difficulties with the CS Jobs system, please contact the Support Team at candidate@support.oleeo.com
Person specification
A Senior Educational Psychologist will:
- Provide a high quality and specialised applied educational psychology service to MOD Schools, MOD 0-3 years settings and DCS, using specialist child development models, systems, assessments and research skills.
- Provide specialist psychological assessment / consultation / intervention as well as offering consultation and recommendations on psychological care for pupils and young people as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Apply psychology to promote mental health, social and emotional well-being for children and young people and provide supervision and support to the children’s workforce.
- Develop and maintain effective links with key partners and respond to the changing demands of education in a military community.
- Contribute to the development and dissemination of good practice through the application of psychological knowledge and techniques.
- Undertake casework as needed for people within assigned part of the community to ensure that children, families and adults, and those services and agencies supporting them receive appropriate information, advice and assistance.
To be successful you should be able to demonstrate the following experience;
- Specialist knowledge/experience/interest in a particular area of professional work (e.g. early years, behaviour support, social communication and language difficulties, Mental health/emotional wellbeing).
- Experience of leading projects as an Educational Psychologist in a Local Authority or similar organisation.
- Previous successful experience in the support of children, families, and teams at times of critical incidents, including bereavement support.
- Ability to work independently within service frameworks.
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Qualifications
Evidence of qualification will be required at interview. All qualifications/licences declared must be held at point of application and if applicable be in date. Equivalent Qualifications will not be accepted.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Candidates will be assessed against the skills & experience in the Person Specification above.
Benefits
As a civil servant working alongside the Army, you will be part of a forward-looking organisation with inclusive workplace policies, excellent career prospects and a job that makes a difference.
The Army prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.
Other benefits for Army civil servants include:
- 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
- Highly competitive pension scheme
- Personal and professional development of skills
- Alternative working patterns for many roles
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a free service that assists you with achieving a productive, healthy environment that is conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
- 6 days special leave per year which can be used for volunteering activities
- Access to gym facilities located at Upavon
Learning and Development:
We believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference and you will be supported to help you learn and advance in your career. This includes working towards membership of a professional body and/or undertaking a modern apprenticeship as part of your role.
Discover My Benefits:
Please follow the link to visit the Discover My Benefits site which showcases the benefits and discounts offered when working as a civilian for the MOD. https://discovermybenefits.mod.gov.uk/civilian/
You will be placed into the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme or Civil Service Pension arrangement (ALPHA) where appropriate. If it is determined that you enter the Civil Service Pension arrangement (ALPHA), the Soulbury salary range associated with the post will be abated by 4% to account for the difference in pension contributions.
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Selection process details
Selection criteria:
At application you will be assessed on the following:
Personal statement providing evidence of career history and evidence that you have the knowledge and recent practical experience for each of the elements in the person specification above. (1,000 words)
Behaviours – Leadership, Making Effective Decisions
At interview you will be assessed against the above criteria along with the following:
Behaviours - Seeing the Big Picture, Communicating & Influencing.
Candidates invited to an interview will be required to deliver a presentation during the interview. The subject matter will be provided once invitations to interview are issued.
Interviews will take place at Upavon. A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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