Salary: Soulbury A Scale 3 to 8 (£46,525 to £56,540), plus up to 3 SPA points, inner London weighting (£3595), and travel or car allowance. We are currently reviewing how to implement the additional scale points outlined in the December 2023 Soulbury pay agreement. Once confirmed, more information will be provided to applicants.

Contract: Permanent

Hours of work: 35 hours per week (Part time and Full time available)

Location: Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, London

We are pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for creative and engaging psychologists to join our friendly and innovative EPS based in the heart of London’s busy East End. LBTH EPS is a large and well-regarded service comprising of both qualified and trainee EPs. Whether you are approaching the end of your training or looking for new challenges in your career we very much look forward to hearing from you. We welcome applications from those currently on a Doctoral Education Psychologist programme.

No two days are the same at LBTH and we are fortunate to be able to work in various provisions, including post-16 and other alternative settings, delivering traded and project work alongside statutory assessments. Schools value our input and choose to purchase additional time from us which is delivered by the link EP in each school. We offer a range of psychological services which we are constantly developing through consultation with our service users. At present this includes:

• Consultation, observation, assessment, and intervention
• Video Interaction Guidance and the opportunity to train in this area
• Emotional Literacy Support Assistant programme
• Parent support through training and therapeutic interventions
• Ongoing evaluation and research opportunities as we continue to seek ways to improve our service and outcomes for children and young people
• Group supervision with Youth Offending Team and Parental Engagement Team
• Virtual School support
• Crisis support service

We have several special interest groups within the team that EPs can join to share and develop practice in areas such as narrative approaches, evaluation, screen time usage and consultation.

Benefits of working with us include:

• Regular individual supervision and peer supervision
• Protected time for CPD and whole team training
• Travel allowance (either for car usage or public transport – you do not need to drive to work in Tower Hamlets)
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Great transport links
• Tower Hamlets laptop and accompanying technical support
• Flexible working around individual requirements
• Dedicated business support team
• Eligibility to apply for Soulbury Structured Pay Award (SPA) points
• Recognition of continuous service through additional annual leave

Requirements

You must be a registered Educational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or expect to be upon completion of training.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

Additional Information

We enjoy talking about what we do so if you would like more information or an informal discussion about the post, please email: admin.eps@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

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