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Birmingham is a vibrant city with a culturally and ethnically diverse population. Being the largest local authority with the largest youth population in Europe, Birmingham City Council has big plans to reshape this incredible place for generations to come. Contributing to these plans, we are seeking to expand the city’s Educational Psychology Service in order to meet the high demand for our services and need committed aspiring or experienced managers and leaders to support these endeavours. We are passionate about applying psychology and providing high quality professional services to support the learning, development and emotional wellbeing of children and young people. Our service vision for working with children and young people is ambitious; we believe that every young person should have the opportunity to thrive, to be fully included and to help them reach their potential.

Specialist Seniors have an active roles and responsibilities within the four area teams and are part of senior leadership team. There are number of priority areas within service delivery we wish to develop under the specialist strategic lead of a SSEP including parental/carer engagement, complex needs in the specialist sector, cognition and learning and SEMH. As a manager the role will involve involve supervision of qualified EPs and assistant psychologists. Alongside the specialist and management activities, you will provide generic work for up to 30% of your time: especially delivering a psychology service through consultation and working with individual and groups of children, parents and carers, schools and early years providers, the local authority and partner agencies.