Reading Intervention Leaders

**St George's Academy**

**“Aiming high to achieve excellence for all”**
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**Reading Intervention Leader **_

**Salary**:NJC Scale 4
**Hours**:32.5 hours per week
**Contract type**:Permanent
**Responsible To**:Senior Vice Principals: Teaching & Learning and SEND

**Responsibilities**

Reading Intervention Leaders within the Academy will undertake the following responsibilities:

- To work with small groups of targeted students delivering reading intervention strategies to ensure all students are able to make progress
- To access, monitor, record and report on the reading and comprehension skills of these students
- To organise all the relevant resources for the reading interventions
- To contribute to identification and selection of students to take part in the programme and the identification of the most appropriate strategies for each student
- To be in regular contact with the parents of these students, updating on progress and supporting the parents to contribute to the progress of the child as far as they are able
- To communicate with teachers, tutors and pastoral staff to ensure optimal attendance and accurate registration of the students
- To run break-time reading reward clubs
- To actively contribute to a culture of reading for pleasure

In addition to the above, Reading Intervention Leaders will also undertake the following general responsibilities

**School Related**:

- Act in accordance with Academy policies and procedures and relevant legislation, particularly in relation to child protection and behaviour management.
- Participate in the preparation of the classroom.
- Monitor children’s needs and report these to a designated person.
- Keep records as required by the Academy.
- Have familiarity with all relevant statements of special educational needs specific to the child.

**Child Related**:

- Promote development and learning (physical, emotional, educational and social).

Foster growth, self-esteem and independence, observe and record development.
- Support those with special needs.
- Carry out reasonable daily personal care/hygiene duties.
- Assist with the movement of children in and around the Academy.

**GENERAL**
- To be responsible for personal continued professional development and take opportunities to build the appropriate skills, qualifications, and/or experience needed for the role, with support from the school
- To adhere to Health and Safety Regulations

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- To keep confidential any issues related to St George’s Academy which are deemed confidential
- To participate in appropriate meetings
- To contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s policies, practices and procedures, so as to support the school’s values and vision
- To make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school
- To uphold public trust in the education profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school
- To have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school, and maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality
- To support equal opportunities and promote anti-discriminatory practice

It is important to recognise that any job description outlines only the minimum expectations of the post-holder and should not constrain any colleague wishing to take on additional responsibilities and activities that could positively affect their own, their team’s or the school’s development and improvement. All members of staff must be prepared to work flexibly, undertaking aspects of colleagues’ work of a similar or lower level of complexity, in order to ensure:

- Cover of the school’s needs throughout the day
- Appropriate cover for colleagues when absent for any reason

All Academy staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people within the Academy. This includes helping to safeguard pupils’ well-being by following the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education and our school’s child protection policy

All Academy Staff are expected to make themselves familiar of the Academy Policies and
Procedures and to adhere to these. These can all be found on the Academy X drive.

This job description may be amended from time to time in discussion with the post holder

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**_PERSON SPECIFICATION_**

**Reading Intervention Leader**

**ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE ASCERTAINED BY**

**1. EXPERIENCE ** Experience of working with or caring for young people Experience of Reading Interventions Application/Interview
- Experience of working with families/carers Experience of working in a school Application/Interview
- Experience of supporting with reading environment Application/Interview
- Experience of working with children with Special Educational Needs

**2. KNOWLEDGE ** Good general standard of literacy and numeracy Knowledge of reading interventions Application/Interview
- Knowledge of phonics Knowledge of apps, p