Educational Psychology Service (EPS)
The Service Offer
Subscription Services
Subscription services
Subscription
Subscriptions provide a named Educational Psychologist (EP) to support you and your setting. We work with you flexibly to identify targets to address the needs of individual students across your setting such as raising attainment and planning for the specific psychological, educational, social and emotional needs of individuals.
Time is purchased in 3-hour sessions which includes contact and non-contact elements. Your EP will work with staff to maximise the value of your subscription. Support includes application of psychological theory through:
- Consultation with adults to develop collaborative problem-solving.
- Psychological interventions such as Cognitive Behaviour, Narrative, and Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
- Individual support for children and young people across the SEND Code of Practice (Depart. for Education, 2015) four areas of needs.
- Direct work with children and young people to identify their strengths and needs.
- Critical incident support - bereavement, sudden death of members of the school community, or local incidents requiring psychological support or guidance.
- A range of relational approaches to support pupil/student wellbeing, including emotion coaching, nurture- informed inclusion, trauma informed and attachment aware approaches.
- Academic interventions (e.g. paired reading, applying the EPATT - Educational Psychology Assessment Through Teaching tool).
- Staff, parent/carer, other professional training, confidence building and skill development.
- Supervision and mentoring of school staff.
The ethical application of psychology to support children and young people’s development and to support school teams.
Benefits
- Support to explore students’ psychological, emotional, social, academic, achievement and developmental needs.
- Psychological assessment for evidence-based intervention and planning.
- Support development of staff skills, knowledge, expertise, and confidence through training, coaching and supervision sessions.
- Support system level strategic and operational development.
- Improved confidence in parent and family 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.
- Increased child and young person engagement, motivation, and participation in education, including capturing pupil/student voice.
Why use us
We are Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Undergraduate Psychologists, and Business Support colleagues who are focused on positive life outcomes for Warwickshire’s children and young people.
We work with you to overcome individual and systemic barriers to inclusion for young people. This enables participation, promotes effective and inclusive provision, supports access to the curriculum, and supports student and staff wellbeing.
Our Specialisms
- Work in line with the graduated response, the Warwickshire assess- plan-do-review process.
- A psychological consultation approach, that works with students, school staff, parents and other professionals as necessary.
- Bespoke training to support your school/setting’s SEND development planning, covering psychological approaches to understand student needs and appropriate interventions.
- Interventions delivered within settings such as paired reading, sensory screeners and more.
- Capture the voices and wishes of students, to support their engagement, motivation and participation in education.
- Support whole-school planning and development.
- Collaborate with other agencies.
Tailored Services
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.