Educational Psychologist - Permanent This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Educational Psychologist
- Job Location: Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud
- Salary: £51,893 - £61,664 (+ up to 3 SPA) per annum
- Hours per Week: 37 Full time
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Job Requisition Number: 11478
- This post is not open to job share
About the Team & Role
Gloucestershire’s Educational Psychology Service is part of STEPS (Specialist Teaching & Educational Psychology) a friendly, supportive and innovative team of Educational Psychologists and Advisory Teachers that promote child development and learning through a consultation service to schools and work closely with SEND specialists across the county.
As a highly regarded service, we have received additional funding and the team is expanding with further posts in 2026 and 2027. The expansion is to facilitate the broad range of activities EPs and our consultees value and recognise make a difference, building relationships and inclusion by working pre and post EHCNA as well as promoting projects and wider application of psychology within education.
The team model of service delivery based upon consultation and planned working. We are passionate about consultative ways of working. We believe that psychologists are best effective when they are in schools/settings with enough time to do a range of work, alongside a comprehensive workforce development offer and strategic projects.
All EPs contribute to our strategic development areas of work led by our specialist leads. These are based on mobility and transition; removing barriers to learning; communication and interaction; resilience and emotional wellbeing and supporting vulnerable groups. This includes highly valued programmes such as building capacity in schools; mental health in schools; ELSA and ELKLAN along with our Conference and training offers to SENCOs.
About You
What are we looking for?
4 new vacancies for September 2027 (we particularly encourage applications from current Year 2 TEPs due to qualify in September 2027)
4 new and existing vacancies for this school year and September 2026. (we are looking for experienced EPs and those qualifying in autumn 2026).
We are looking for flexible, creative and solution focussed psychologists to join our team.
You will be keen to apply psychology to create change and support positive outcomes for young people and their families. Whilst you will understand the importance of high-quality casework you will also be clear that educational psychology has so much more to offer.
You will be dynamic and enthusiastic about the role of the EP in bringing about positive outcomes.
You will be passionate about using consultative models.
You will be keen to apply psychology at a strategic level and through workforce development.
Closing Date for applications will be 18 January 2026
Open Evening is an online (TEAMS) briefing session on the 16 January 2026 at 7pm
Interviews
We will holding interviews in the week commencing 26 January 2026.
For current those current training in their second year (TEP 2s) on 29 and 30 January 2026.
About Us
Are you looking for what we offer?
- The opportunity to work in an exciting and growing consultation service with scope to deliver a range of different work as part of your service to schools.
- Work with other creative EPs
- Weekly project work and strategic work activities as a core task for all EPs and a chance to follow interests.
- Managed workloads and limits on EHCNA work
- Career development opportunities and specialist roles
- A reduced contact area for newly qualified EPs (with a day a week for development activities in the first year).
- A variety of work in both rural and urban settings in a fantastic part of the country.
- A strong CPD programme and training opportunities
- A strong induction support package
- A strong admin team that lets you focus on applying psychology
- An established programme of professional supervision and peer support
- Extremely competitive pay and benefit package
- (Soulbury A Scale 5-10 +3 SPA points).
- Offer a welcome package (subject to conditions)
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays.
- Membership of the generous Local Government Pension Scheme
- Safe, supportive, and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision and informal support.
What do our EPs say about the team?
“The range of work here at GCC, really is a selling point”.
“The 0.8 allocation for NQEPs …this as a means of supporting NQEPs is incredibly helpful”.
“I think one of the key things about Gloucestershire is the variety of work that you can be involved with, and the autonomy to work in the way that you feel is right for the situation (aligned to Gloucestershire EPS principles) when working with schools (opening up things like Solution Circles, training, staff drop-ins, workshops, group interventions, supporting staff with interventions etc etc!)”.
“Having a patch of schools means you can build relationships”.
“Opportunities for joint working and learning from each other”.
“I enjoy doing the summer projects/collaborating on work with EP or AT colleagues”.
“CPD opportunities”.
If you want to find out more, please see the job profile in the link and/or contact Greg Cotton (Deputy PEP) at for an informal chat about the role.
How to apply
If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Job profile - Educational Psychologist
This Position is subject to an Enhanced DBS with barred list check.
The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
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Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
