Literacy Tutor

**JOB TITLE**:Literacy Tutor (p/t) - Banbury

**SALARY**: £20 per hour (approx. 70 - 80 hrs per 10-week teaching block, plus holiday pay)

**EXPERIENCE**: We are looking for experienced education professionals who are passionate about making a difference to disadvantaged children’s engagement and attainment.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:

- **About us**_

For over twenty-five years, Quest for Learning has been supporting the educational engagement and attainment of disadvantaged Oxfordshire children. We are passionate about playing our part in closing the attainment gap between rich and poor, by working in partnership with local primary schools to provide literacy and numeracy interventions that complement their own work.

We work with primary schools that have identified children who are falling behind in reading or maths and who would benefit from our programmes. In particular, we support: children in Year 2 and 3 who are struggling to become readers, through our ReadingQuest programme; children in Key Stage 2 through our BookQuest programme, who can decode but whose reading comprehension is low and may lack motivation to engage with books; and children across both Key Stages who lack confidence in numeracy, whose skills in mental maths are limited, and who struggle with number facts and flexible number work.

The majority of our tutors combine working for Quest for Learning with other professional or personal commitments and value the flexibility to set their own working hours in agreement with the partner school. Most of our tutors continue to work with us after completing their initial assignments, either in the same or new partner schools.
- **About the role**_

We’re looking to appoint an experienced educational professional to deliver our **KS2 **reading programme, BookQuest, at one of our partner schools in **Banbury**. The position is for the summer term in the first instance with the possibility of continued work from September.

We’re proud to be accredited as an approved tuition provider by the DfE, offering literacy teaching as part of the national COVID ‘catch-up’ effort since Phase 1 of the National Tutoring Programme.

Our established ReadingQuest and BookQuest programmes are at the heart of Quest for Learning’s educational mission, and we are proud of the consistently impressive learning gains made by pupils who receive our interventions; an average of 12 months in reading accuracy and 18 months in comprehension in just 10 weeks.

Literacy Tutors work during school hours with pupils identified by partner schools, in groups of two (ReadingQuest). They will deliver a total of 15 hours of tutoring to each group over the course of ten weeks. The role of the Literacy Tutor is to increase individual children’s strategies, confidence, knowledge and skills in reading, writing, spelling and comprehension to enable them to be successful, independent learners. Literacy Tutors will also encourage and support parents and carers to help pupils with literacy learning at home.
- Main responsibilities:_
- To undertake group literacy teaching in one of our partner schools.
- To encourage and facilitate parent/carer engagement.
- To report on individual pupil progress.
- To work as part of the Quest for Learning tutor team.
- Duties:_
- To teach an agreed number of groups of pupils for a total of 15 hours per group across ten weeks.
- To keep detailed records of each child’s progress, and produce reports for Quest for Learning, the partner school, and parents/carers.
- To work in partnership with each child’s parents/carers, encouraging and supporting literacy learning at home.
- To work closely with class teachers to identify initial learning needs and to regularly update them on pupil progress.
- To be committed to safeguarding and promoting the well-being and welfare of children.
- To participate in Quest for Learning tutor team meetings.
- To collaborate with the Quest for Learning teaching team in the fulfilment of the monitoring and evaluation requirements set out by the DfE and other funders.
- **About you**_

We’re looking for enthusiastic and experienced individuals who are committed to the aims and ethos of Quest for Learning and have experience of working with primary-aged children in an educational setting. If you’re passionate about improving the life chances of disadvantaged children through education and have the drive and initiative to work with mínimal supervision, we would love to hear from you.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:
**Skills**
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate in a friendly and effective manner with primary-aged pupils and their parents/carers (E)
- Good self-management skills including the ability to self-motivate, meet deadlines, and organise own workload (E)
- Good written skills, including the ability to produce observational notes and formal written reports (E)
- Ability to professionally represent Quest for Learning within part