EPIC Careers
EPIC is a service which believes in creating developmental opportunities for aspiring educational psychologists. As such, we offer voluntary undergraduate positions (via Loughborough University) year on year as well as graduate opportunities in the form of Assistant Psychologist paid positions as well as voluntary opportunities.
Typically our assistants, after a few years of experience with us, apply for the doctoral training in educational psychology. Currently we have four ex-assistants on doctoral programmes or are now qualified educational psychologists.
Since 2022, we have also had Trainee Educational Psychologists placed with us. The long-term vision is to add to the national pool of highly skilled psychologists as well as ensuring EPIC is a sustainable service.
Current Vacancies
If you are interested in working at EPIC Educational Psychology and Wellbeing Services as an Educational Psychologist, please contact us on info@epicleics.com.
Undergraduate Placement Opportunity
For students interested in a career in educational psychology, EPIC have vacancies for psychological service assistant for 2025-26. This role is for undergraduates on placement from Loughborough University or DMU.
What our previous undergraduates said about working with us:
“Thank you so much for such an amazing opportunity! It has been so much fun, and I have learnt so much from each and every one of you. I had the opportunity to shadow fantastic interventions, and I was even lucky enough to have the responsibility of making one myself! It’s been a blast!”
The successful candidate will:
– Support the EPs by developing resource packs, useful tools for children as part of their interventions
– Support with training and conferences
– Support the EPs by scoring different assessment tools
– Support the assistant psychologists with screeners, analysis, group work and evaluations
– Develop or pilot interventions as required by the service
Why it would be beneficial to you:
– Experience working within an exciting, creative and fast-paced educational psychology service
– To learn about the role of an educational psychologist
– Training opportunities to upskill yourself
To request an application form email us at info@epicleics.com
Deadline – 7th February at 4pm
Trainee Educational Psychologist
We welcome applications from highly motivated and skillful trainee educational psychologists (TEPs) entering their second or third year of doctoral training in September 2025 who have a strong desire to live and work in or around Leicestershire, Leicester City and Rutland.
Testimonial from one of our TEPs:
“As a TEP at EPIC I have had the opportunity to learn and practice many different aspects of the EP role. From understanding a range of standardized and dynamic assessments, individual casework and writing EHCNAs to planning school training workshops and assisting in ASD pathway assessments. All of this brings a high pace to working at EPIC. It’s busy, there’s lots to learn and diary management is a key! However, with having the EPIC team’s support and guidance, I feel confident that I can quality and have a range of skills and experiences for practicing as an EP.”
The successful candidate will:
– Be part of a warm and supportive team
– Have regular supervision provided by a named educational psychologist
– Have a comprehensive induction programme
– Have opportunities to participate in the service programme of professional development
– Have opportunities to develop knowledge and skills, working alongside educational psychologists and other members of the wider Trust
– Have opportunities to share your knowledge and research with the team
– Be integral to our dynamic and close-knit team
– Have access to a team of assistant psychologists to help support your recommendations and training
– Your statutory workload is capped, giving you flexibility to balance this with other casework and your academic commitments.
To apply please click this link or email info@epicleics.com
