Educational Psychologist

Leicester Bus Partnership; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local educational body in Leicester is looking for Educational Psychologists to join their supportive team. The roles involve providing psychological support to schools, collaborating on mental health projects, and leading training workshops. Both full-time and part-time positions are available, and the organization encourages professional development. Applicants must have relevant qualifications and experience with multi-disciplinary teams. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role, which offers hybrid working opportunities.

Qualifications

• Must hold a relevant qualification as an Educational Psychologist.
• Experience with multi-disciplinary teams is essential.
• Experience working in educational settings is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological support in city schools.
• Work collaboratively on mental health projects.
• Lead training and development workshops.

Skills

Experience in educational psychology

Strong communication skills

Knowledge of mental health strategies

Education

Qualified Educational Psychologist

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Job reference REQ6260 Date posted 15/01/2026 Application closing date 15/02/2026 Location Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices Salary EP salary is on Soulbury A Scale Points 3- 8 - (up to) 3 additional points for SPA. Our minimum starting point is 6 Package Blank Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Education Attachments Job Specification Educational Psychologist August 2025.pdf

As an Educational Psychologist or Senior Educational Psychologists for Leicester City Council, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary, diverse team that is friendly, supportive, and well-regarded, working in a unique and vibrant multi-cultural city.

We have EPs working in a range of areas including with the virtual school, international new arrivals, anti-bullying (Positive Peaceful Places) and with our designated specialist provisions in mainstream settings.

What you’ll be involved with

We are involved in exciting new areas of work, including working with our local MHST team on an NHS funded project, to strengthen the mental health support in our city schools. We have an integral role in the LA EBSA strategy and are working closely with our Children’s Hospital School.

As one of the Change Programme Partners, we are exploring different ways of working through the EHC assessment process, including collaboration with our specialist teachers, and this is supporting us to be up to date with our EHCA workload.

All of our EPs have protected time for development work which involves training, consultation and local area strategy work with a range of partners, alongside an expanding ELSA training and supervision offer, and we encourage all staff to develop areas of professional interest.

We work with all of our City schools through a link EP arrangement, giving us the opportunity to develop our creative delivery of psychology and promote new ways of working. EPs and TEPs have the opportunity to work together on activities such as PATH and Circle of Adults, and we are progressing our work on culturally responsive and anti-racist practice.

We are developing and focusing our training offer, to be more responsive to the changes and challenges that schools are experiencing, and provide workshops for parents and staff on topics including EBSA, neuro-affirming practice, precision teaching and staff wellbeing.

The roles

There are full time and part time positions available on a permanent basis. We welcome applications from experienced Eps looking to step into a senior role all the way to newly qualified EPs, or EPs currently in training who are keen to explore new ways of working and fresh ideas.An enhanced DBS check is required for this post. We look forward to working with you.

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact:

Mohammed Bham, Principal Educational Psychologiston 07874 642 822.