Educational Psychologist x 8

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.

With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

Join a Growing, Forward-Thinking Educational Psychology Service

Hounslow’s Educational Psychology Service is expanding and evolving—and we are looking for motivated Educational Psychologists to join us at an exciting point of transformation.

We are part of a newly developing multi-disciplinary service — Specialist Practice & Advice, bringing together EPs, Speech & Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Portage, Early Years practitioners, and specialist teachers. This creates rich opportunities for integrated, systemic, and preventative work that goes far beyond traditional models of EP practice.

Whether you are a qualified EP or a Year 3 Trainee, we offer a supportive, reflective, and ambitious environment where your practice can flourish.

Our service is committed to keeping the voice of children and young people at the centre of everything we do.

This role will best suit someone who has some post-qualification experience of working with children and young people and is interested in further development and working in innovative ways.

As an EP in Hounslow, you will:

• Apply psychology creatively and systemically to support inclusion.

• Work closely with schools to develop early intervention approaches.

• Contribute to assessment, consultation, training, and wider strategic work.

• Build strong partnerships with families, schools, and multi-agency colleagues.

Our service is committed to keeping the voice of children and young people at the centre of everything we do.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

Why Join Hounslow’s EP Service?

This EP team sits within the multidisciplinary Specialist Practice and Advice Service. The Specialist Practice and Advice team provides professional advice and guidance to support the inclusion of children and young people across Hounslow schools and settings. The guiding ethos of Specialist Practice and Advice is to apply our expertise to strengthen systems and communities around children and young people. Across the service, we offer:

• A supportive and ambitious environment, where you will receive regular supervision.

• A range of professional development opportunities, including opportunities to develop skills in training and coaching, and learning from the wider multi-disciplinary team.

• Support to further develop relevant areas of clinical interest, in line with service needs.

Within the EPS, you will also:

Shape the future of practice

• Be part of a rapidly developing, innovative service model.

• Contribute to early intervention and systemic work at scale.

• Participate in the rollout of the DfE “Experts at Hand” initiative, with protected time to engage in consultation, workforce development, and preventative work

Work in a truly integrated system

• Collaborate daily with a wide multi-disciplinary team.

• Influence outcomes across education, health, and care systems.

• Develop skills working with a range of ages, in a wide range of settings including primary and secondary schools, and early years settings.

• Opportunity to work in both core (non-traded) and traded services (e.g. training, interventions).

Develop professionally

• Strong culture of evidence-informed and reflective practice.

• Opportunities for training delivery, ELSA supervision, and programme work (e.g. NEN, EarlyBird Plus).

• Structured support and regular supervision.

• Pathways into supervision and leadership for experienced colleagues.

Wellbeing and workload

• A balanced model: manageable statutory work alongside meaningful early intervention.

• Hybrid working with high autonomy and flexibility.

• Strong CPD and team support

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

We are looking for EPs who:

• Are HCPC registered (or current Year 3 Trainee EP)

• Eligible for an enhanced DBS

• Have strong grounding in psychological theory and practice.

• Are committed to inclusion, equity, and early intervention.

• Enjoy collaborative and multi-disciplinary working

• Are motivated to contribute to service development and innovation.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile

Interested in this role but at a different stage in your Educational Psychology career? Check out our other vacancies on the London Borough of Hounslow website or get in touch to discuss the opportunities available. We warmly welcome informal conversations about our roles.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: [email removed]

Interview dates to be confirmed