Educational Psychologist
Bedford Borough Council
Bedford
- Expired
- Salary:
- £38,969 - £47,734 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2016
Job overview
Quote ref: P000025
Fixed term for 6 months (Maternity cover) 37 hours per week
Children’s & Adult Services
Bedford Borough Council is committed to working with its communities and partners to improve local quality of life. The Council’s significant and varied investment portfolio makes an important contribution towards generating income for the Council and meeting its ambitious regeneration targets. Growing the income from the estate through investment and development is a high priority.
Bedford Borough Council is a small established Unitary. The successful post holder will be a member of the Education Psychology Team, which is looking to continue to make a difference for pupils with SEN in light of the Children and Families Act 2014. The post hold will need to be flexible and willing to work with the team, professionals and schools to develop new models of working in a changing educational landscape.
For full job details visit www.bedford.gov.uk
Closing date 5th December 2016
About Bedford Borough Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford
- Bedfordshire
- MK42 9AP
- United Kingdom
Bedford Borough Council encompasses the northern half of Bedfordshire and includes the main towns of Bedford and Kempton. Bedford Borough Council became a unitary authority in April 2009, alongside Central Bedfordshire whichcovers the rest of the county – formerly made up of Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire District Councils.
Bedford is made up of around 62,000 households and 153,000 citizens. Situated between Birmingham and London it has the advantage of close proximity to both the M1 and the A1, and has excellent transport links. Our location has attracted many major logistics companies to the area and ASDA (Wal-Mart), Fiji and Argos Direct have all chosen Bedford as their operational base. It is a significant growth area with plans underway to develop 19,000 new homes. It’s important that this growth is managed in a sustainable way, and that the infrastructure and local economy is strong enough to support the growing population.
There are 39,000 young people under the age of 20 in Bedford Borough. In the 0-15 age group, one in five of our young people live in families that are officially classed as living in poverty, in some of our areas this rises to almost two in three.
Educational attainment has risen over the last five years, however individual school achievement (pupils achieving 5 A* - C grades in GCSE – including English &Maths) varies from 20% to 70% in our schools. In 2009 around half of our 16 years olds left school with fewer than 5 GCSEs at A* - C grade (including English &Maths).
Our corporate plan outlines our determination to meet the twin challenges of making the Borough a better place to live, work and visit and of creating a first-class council. This will be delivered through strong and effective local partnership working, and clear accountability to our local community.
We have established eight priority areas for the Council:
• Economic Regeneration
• Environment & Climate Change
• Children & Young People
• Adult Health & Well-Being
• Safer Communities
• Inclusion & Cohesion
• Housing & Transport
• Organisational& Operational Effectiveness
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