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Alternative Portfolio of Services to Schools
Children & Young People's Psychology Service
Outline of Work
Context
The service provider will offer access to additional educational psychology services to all Devon primary, secondary and special schools and maintained educational settings. This service will be in addition to and will complement the core educational psychology service to children and young people provided by the Local Authority Children and Young People’s Educational Psychological Service.
Services to be provided
A specialist educational psychology service that provides consultation, advice and support to schools and settings to enhance their capacity to include and support the emotional wellbeing and achievement of all children and young people, especially those with complex difficulties.
The service must offer educational psychology input at individual child or family level and at school organisation or setting level and all work must comply with the Code of Conduct and Charter of the British Psychological Society/Code of Professional Practice of the Association of Educational Psychologists.
Work will be individually negotiated with schools and settings and the service offer will include:
- school improvement work with management teams to assist the development of inclusive policy and practice
- training and staff development
- consultation with settings staff and parents/carers
- individual educational psychology intervention with children and young people
- group work with children and young people
- educational psychology support and mediation work with parents/carers
- educational psychology input to multi-agency work to develop coherent support packages for children and young people
Relevant Legislation and Policy
- Education Act 1996
- Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001
- Revised SEN Code of Practice 2002
- Children Act 2004
- Disability Discrimination Act 2005
Statutory Requirements
Service deliverers must be fully qualified professional educational psychologists who hold an Honours Degree in psychology, a postgraduate qualification in Educational
Psychology and are Chartered or eligible to be chartered by the British Psychological Society.
All staff must have successfully completed and enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check.