About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

We are looking to appoint suitably qualified, motivated and innovative practitioners who are passionate about improving the social, emotional and educational lives of children and young people through working collaboratively as part of our team. We are a friendly and supportive team whose primary aim is to use high quality, evidence-based, applied psychology to enable all children and young people to achieve their maximum potential and become confident and emotionally healthy individuals.
As a member of the team, you will be encouraged to develop and build on your skills, knowledge and interests in order to contribute to the service offer and strategic development. The service has a strong commitment to professional development and supports team members with ongoing training. The EPS has close links with university courses and excellent relationships with educational settings and partner services across Children’s Services and with CAMHS and other well-being and mental health services.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.
Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

About You

We are seeking an educational psychologist:

• who can deliver a psychological service (including statutory and non-statutory work) across a range of settings to support children, young people, schools and families.
• with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective relationships with children, parents, schools and other professionals
• with a professional, well organised and reflective approach
• who will make a positive contribution to the service and Local Authority

About the Service

Haringey Educational Psychology Service
Our Vision - Children and young people at the centre of everything we do
Our Mission - Using psychology to enable positive changes for children and young people
Our Core Values - Child-centred; Collaborative; Strengths-based; Inclusive; Empowering
Haringey Educational Psychology Service is a highly qualified dynamic team who offer effective applied psychology to children, young people and those who support them. Our service is part-traded, with commissions from schools and a number of partner agencies, including Public Health and the Virtual School Team. We are part of the Trailblazer Mental Health Support Team partnership alongside mental health professionals from CAMHS, the voluntary sector, Deep Black, and Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, to support the emotional wellbeing of children, young people and their parents across a range of schools in Haringey. Our EP practice incorporates consultation, assessment, intervention, research and evaluation, training and systemic work with settings. There are many opportunities to innovate and deliver psychological input into project work including: parenting and family work (e.g. termly Webster-Stratton, monthly parent consultations); VIG; ELSA training and half-termly supervision; therapeutic interventions (including CBT, ACT, mindfulness); and sleep consultations. The EPS has been commissioned to be part of the multi-agency Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce project aimed at keeping children and young people in school and reducing crime. We are also working with the Resettlement Team who support refugee, migrant and asylum seeker families newly arrived to Haringey.