Educational Psychology Service (EPS)
The Service Offer
The Service Offer:
The ethical application of psychology to support children and young people’s development, and to support school teams. We work with your school/setting to overcome individual and system barriers to inclusion for young people, to enable participation, to promote effective inclusive provision locally, to support access to the curriculum, to support pupil/student and staff wellbeing and thereby support positive life outcomes for Warwickshire’s children and young people.
How we work:
Our services are provided by a large team of Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Undergraduate Psychologists, and Business Support colleagues.
Benefits of working with the Educational Psychology Service:
· Support for exploring pupils’/students’ psychological, emotional, social, academic, achievement, and developmental needs;
· Psychological assessment for evidence-based intervention and planning;
· Supporting development of staff skills, knowledge, expertise, and confidence through training, coaching and supervision sessions;
· Support for effective system level strategic and operational development;
· Increased child and young person engagement, motivation, and participation in education, including capturing pupil/student voice;
· Improved parent and family confidence in partnership working;
· Qualified independent professional advice from Educational Psychologists with current knowledge of both national and Warwickshire processes and pathways;
· Close links with social care, health services and other professional groups.
Our specialisms:
· Working in line with the graduated response, the Warwickshire assess-plan-do-review process,
· Our psychological consultation approach, working collaboratively with students, school staff, parents and other professionals as necessary;
· Capturing the voices and wishes of children and young people, to support their engagement, motivation and participation in education;
· Bespoke training to support your school/setting’s SEND development planning, covering psychological approaches for understanding children and young people’s needs, and appropriate interventions;
· Supporting whole-school organisational planning and development e.g. supporting behaviour policy planning, or developing systems to support both pupil/student and staff wellbeing;
· Interventions delivered within settings such as paired reading, sensory screeners and more;
· Collaborative working with other professional agencies;
· Critical incident support (bereavement, sudden death of members of the school community, or local incidents requiring psychological support or guidance).
Tailored Services:
In addition to the above, our services are flexible and can be tailored to meet your individual needs – please contact us if you would like to discuss arranging a tailored package for your setting.
Please follow this link to our webpages for further information - https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/educationalpsychology
Subscription:
A subscription with the Educational Psychology Service (EPS) provides a named Educational Psychologist (EP) who will support you and your setting. We will work collaboratively with you to identify targets for addressing the needs of individual children and young people across your setting such as raising attainment and planning for the specific psychological, educational, social and emotional needs of individuals.
Service time is purchased in 3-hour sessions and includes contact and non-contact elements (i.e. record writing). Your EP will work with staff to ensure best value from your subscription. The EPS can work flexibly to suit the needs of your community and the tasks/activities that are negotiated.
Support includes application of psychological theory through:
· Individualised support for children and young people across the four areas of needs in the SEND Code of Practice (Department for Education, 2015) following the graduated response;
· Direct work with children and young people to identify their strengths and needs;
· Consultation with key adults to develop a collaborative approach to problem-solving;
· Academic interventions (e.g. paired reading, applying the EPATT - Educational Psychology Assessment Through Teaching tool);
· Psychological interventions in educational settings (e.g. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy);
· A range of relational approaches to support pupil/student wellbeing, including Emotion coaching, nurture-informed inclusion, trauma informed and attachment aware approaches;
· Staff, parent/carer, other professional training, confidence building and skill development;
· Supervision and mentoring of school staff;
· Critical incident support (bereavement, sudden death of members of the school community, or local incidents requiring psychological support or guidance).
