Careers

We're always happy to hear from passionate people!

Our current vacancies are listed below but we always welcome discussions with qualified educational psychologists and specialists such as Paediatric OTs, SaLTs, and specialist teachers.

If you're interested in working with us, please email your CV to info@appliedpsychologies.com or call us on 01482 643458.

Current Vacancies

"Feeling part of something with a vision that's going places and being free to share my ideas and develop my practice.”

Qualified or Assistant EPs needed in Lancashire

Start September 24

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Trainee EP placements (employed) available for September 25

Coming Soon

"The amount of 'in-house' expertise and support is fantastic!”

ASPIRING EPS

We love inspiring and training the next generation of educational psychologists. We’ve had assistants with the team for five years now and we have three trainee educational psychologists across second and third year.

If you’re looking to become an EP, we’d love to help. Here’s our run down of the assistant, trainee and qualified roles with tips on how to be successful at each stage…

Qualified Educational
Psychologist

Typical duties:

As an Applied Psychologies EP, you will have a patch of schools for the academic year (and where possible, beyond). This allows you to build strong relationships with your schools and key staff within - these relationships allow us to do our best work.

Taking a planning meeting approach and as we like to call it, 'building a team around a school', you will work at three levels and bring in the skills of our specialists (OT, SaLT, Interaction and Communication) where needed:

Level 1: Casework and intervention – this is the 1-2-1 work with children and young people.

Level 2: We will establish if there are any training needs, or staff support required such as supervision.

Level 3: Systemic or whole school working (systems and process) – this allows us to put psychology at the centre of things and affect the greatest change.

The role is dependant on your schools and your preferred ways of working but we will encourage you to be the psychologist you want to be!

Experience required:

Qualified EPs will either come straight from the doctorate course or will already be qualified working elsewhere.

Assistant Educational
Psychologist

The details below relate assistant EP positions at Applied Psychologies and may differ from other services.

Typical duties:

The Assistant EP will have a dynamic learning curve, shadowing their supervisor and other EPs to learn how we work to support schools. Working with your supervisor and sometimes independently (but well supervised) you will be building relationships with schools and families; gathering information for casework; researching; and creating content for schools and training sessions.

Experience required:

Our assistants usually come from teaching. This can be primary or secondary and may be as a qualified teacher or teaching assistant. Others have joined from local authority assistant roles and other psychology roles.

Qualifications:

A BPS accredited undergraduate psychology degree with Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership. Other qualifications and training relevant to the field in teaching or SEND subjects will also help your application.

Read our ‘Don’t give up - reflections of an assistant EP’ blog for first-hand experience of being an assistant with Applied Psychologies.

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Trainee Educational
Psychologist

Typical duties:

Trainees join us in year two and three. As a trainee part of your time will be for studying and attending university. When you are with us you will have a patch of schools to build relationships with and manage. You will ideally keep these for both year two and three to offer continuity to you and the schools as well as support you in conducting your thesis research. We aim to give you a varied experience and support in achieving all university designated tasks.

To learn more about the role and journey listen to our ‘Coffee with… Louise’.

Experience required:

In order to join a doctorate course, you will need relevant teaching, SEND or related field experience such as assistant EP. The role isn’t necessarily as important as your ability to demonstrate your understanding and application of psychology. As Louise says, immerse yourself in psychology! The more you are comfortable with demonstrating how you’ve applied psychology, the better your chances of success.

Qualifications:

A BPS accredited undergraduate Psychology degree with Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership. Other qualifications and training relevant to the field in teaching or SEND subjects will also help your application.

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If you want to know more about any of our opportunities please contact us on info@appliedpsychologies.com

Careers

Current Vacancies

ASPIRING EPS

Assistant Educational Psychologist

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