Location
London Borough of Lewisham, based at Kaleidoscope NHS Child Development Centre with flexibility for hybrid working and visits to education settings.

Hours
Part-time, fixed-term 12 months

Salary
£69,957 - £74,199 Soulbury B SCP 8 – 11 (+3SPA)

About the Role
Discover yourself in Lewisham where your work makes a difference to vibrant and culturally diverse communities. Join a warm, inclusive, and creative team in a senior leadership role or your first promoted post. This role offers the opportunity to shape system-wide practice and create lasting impact across a diverse local community. You will provide supervision and line management, contribute to service development, and lead agreed areas of work while maintaining a balanced allocation of traded, statutory, commissioned, and management activities. You will bring strong professional judgement, a commitment to public service and actively anti-racist practice, supporting improvement across the service and wider local authority.

This part-time Senior Educational Psychologist post supports the senior leadership team and works closely with the Principal and Deputy Principal EPs. You will provide line management and professional supervision to a group of EPs, supporting high-quality practice and staff wellbeing. You will play a central role in developing understanding of national SEND reforms and translating these into local practice. You will lead agreed service priorities, support delivery of the Service Development Plan, and contribute to improvement and innovation across the team and wider local authority alongside your traded, statutory, and commissioned work.

Benefits
Generous holiday allowance
Local Government Pension scheme
Flexible working and family friendly policies
Season ticket and bicycle loans
A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
Supportive staff networks

Experience
Experienced Educational Psychologist with a strong foundation in EP practice, capable of building trust and working collaboratively. Experience in leadership, supervision, and project delivery is essential.

About you
Relationship-focused and motivated to improve services for children, families, and settings. Open to new ideas and able to translate priorities into effective action. Committed to public service and actively anti-racist practice. Ready to take an active lead in management and support colleagues within a supportive leadership team.

Qualifications
Qualified Educational Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.