Educational Psychology Service

Our Team

Hillingdon Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is a team of skilled professionals trained in education and psychology at masters or doctorate level. The London Borough of Hillingdon will only employ educational psychologists who are fully qualified and registered with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC). In order to retain this registration, it is compulsory that continuing professional development (CPD) is kept up-to-date.

The EPS consists of a Principal EP, Senior EPs and main grade EPs with a wide range of experiences and special interests. The EPS is fortunate to also feature Trainee EPs and Assistant EPs who are an integral part of the team. Our Trainee and Assistant Psychologists, themselves supervised by qualified EPs, help to ensure up to date knowledge and insight in the field of educational psychology is at the forefront of service development and the support offered to our communities. Both trainee and assistant psychologists help to conduct innovative research in Hillingdon, and ensure that regular service-user feedback is gathered on the core offer.

How the EPS Works -Facilitating Positive Change

Hillingdon EPS provides a specialist psychological service to schools, nurseries and other educational settings in Hillingdon. The EPS aims to improve outcomes for children and young people by implementing an approach that facilitates positive change.

The focus of work can be at the following levels:

• Strategic, systems and organisational level (e.g. whole school level)
• Group and class level
• Individual child, young person, staff, adult and family level

Examples of Hillingdon EPS' support includes:

• Carrying out assessments of the special educational needs of children and young people in order to provide further insight and facilitate progress
• Providing specialist direct support to children and young people, including therapeutic interventions (such as Cognitive Behaviourally-based programmes)
• Offering consultation advice to parents or carers and children and young people within educational settings
• Support settings to explore, review and develop a strategic approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND); this could include collaborating on key policies or guidelines and supporting whole school SEND reviews
• Offering bespoke Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and whole school training on areas of SEND

Accessing Hillingdon EPS Support

Education, Health and Care (EHC) Needs Assessment:

If a request for an EHC Needs Assessment is agreed for a Hillingdon child or young person then a link EP from the service will be allocated to undertake this assessment and liaise with the key individuals.

School or setting:

To access Hillingdon EPS outside of an agreed statutory assessment, your school or setting can purchase time through the traded offer; our 'One Page EPS Traded Outline' has all of the relevant details and information on how to access this support.

Parent or Carer:

If you feel that your child would benefit from involvement with an educational psychologist, talk to the special educational needs coordinator (SENCO) at their schoolor pre-school. They will consider the issues raised and work with you and your child to address your concerns; educational psychology support may be sought when further advice and guidance is needed. The school or setting will then make a decision whether to access Hillingdon EP input.

Reasons to Choose Hillingdon EPS

• The EPS model of service delivery has been reviewed, establishing new leadership and growing / widening the offer, to provide high quality psychology and SEND support to greater numbers of Hillingdon schools / settings
• The EPS builds upon existing positive relationships with our Hillingdon schools and settings to provide an offer that is flexible to your individual needs, quality assured and demonstrates impact
• The EPS is the only psychology service with direct and established links to other services inEducation, Health and Social Care across Hillingdon. This means that you benefit from an effective and co-ordinated approach
• The team, made up of HCPC registered psychologists, has excellent knowledge and expertise in child and educational psychology
• Trainee educational psychologists (TEPs) who are undertaking doctoral programmes are offered placements with Hillingdon EPS. This ensures all EPs are engaging with the future of the EP profession and are up-to-date on current research, approaches and new ways of working

Contact Us

If you have a question or would like to get in contact with us at:

Email: educationalpsychologyservice@hillingdon.gov.uk

Call: 01895 558 101