Senior Educational Psychologist

About the Role:

Truro and Penwith Academy Trust are seeking to appoint a Senior Educational Psychologist with excellent knowledge and broad experience to guide and advise our Academy Trust. As part of our dedicated Central Team, you will work in close liaison and collaboration with our Headteachers and appropriate school staff, parents and colleagues from education, health and social services and play a key role in improving outcomes, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged children. We are interested in hearing from individuals with creative thinking and ideas for further developing and supporting a dynamic and multi-talented team. You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ideally have experience in leadership, management and supervision. Applicants will be able to demonstrate a strong track record of working within education, sensitively and pro-actively working with schools, families and young people, applying psychology at all levels. You will be joining our Trust at an important point in our development, and will share our vision and values; we are committed to ensure every child is supported and inspired to achieve their full potential.

About You:

The ideal candidate will:

• Hold an Honours Degree in Psychology or recognised equivalent qualification.
• Have substantial relevant experience working with children in education or children's services or both.
• Successfully followed a course of specific post graduate professional training as an educational psychologist (doctoral level since 2008).
• Be registered to practise with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
• Have relevant Child Protection and Safeguarding Training.

The successful candidate will be able to deliver an Educational Psychology Service to all TPAT schools and work with these schools to deliver personalised support that puts the child and family at the centre and promotes child development.

Full details can be found in the Recruitment Pack above.

Benefits of Working with Us:

As a leading Academy Trust, we are able to offer our staff a range of continued professional development opportunities alongside family friendly policies and access to the Local Government/Teachers Pension Schemes.  More on our benefits can be found here. 

How to Apply and Further Info:

This permanent role is available to full time and part time candidates; working patterns and flexibility of hours to be discussed at interview. If looking for part time, please specify within your application.

To apply for this position, please email a completed application to recruitment@tpacademytrust.org, please ensure your name and the position you are applying are within the subject title of the email.

Please note we do not accept CV's.

The closing date for receiving applications is Sunday 27th April 2025 at 11.59pm.

If you wish to discuss the position ahead of applying, please contact our Director of Inclusion, James Woodward: JWoodward@tpacademytrust.org. 

TPAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application as part of their pre-employment administration. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Other pre-employment checks will include receipt of two satisfactory references, evidence of right to work in the UK, proof of any relevant qualifications and completion of a health assessment questionnaire.