“Everyone Attaining, Everyone Achieving, through Excellent Experiences” is the vision of East Renfrewshire’s Education Department.  Our Educational Psychology Service supports this inclusive vision, striving to ‘Get It Right’ for all children and young people in East Renfrewshire.  We share and promote the departmental values of Ambition, Kindness and Trust. We aim to provide the community with a high quality, accessible service that applies evidence-based psychology to improve experiences and outcomes for children and young people, especially those who need us most.

We will to do this by:

• applying psychology to support children and young people to develop skills for learning and life;
• delivering services to children, young people, parents/carers and staff that are inclusive, strengths-based and empowering;
• enhancing mental wellbeing through relationship-based approaches that promote nurture and resilience;
• working in partnership with others to ensure the delivery of the least intrusive and most effective interventions;
• working ethically, and with transparency, to support positive attitudes towards cultural and social diversity;
• maintaining an ethos of continuous improvement through self-evaluation, peer support and professional development;
• undertaking and applying psychological research that improves outcomes for children and young people.

Our Educational Psychologists are expected to conform to the standards exemplified in the Health and Care Professions Council Standards of conduct, performance and ethics (2016), Standards of proficiency (2023), and the British Psychological Society Code of ethics and conduct (2021).