Reading Specialist Assistant

**Salary**:
Salary of £17,995.61

**Job type**:
Part Time, Permanent

11 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**What we are offering**
- Salary of £17,995.61
- Permanent and Part-time position
- 22.5 hours per week, no weekend work.
- Site-based role at HMP/YOI Peterborough.
- Please see attached benefits guide for everything we have to offer

**Your Role as a Reading Specialist Assistant**

At Sodexo, we are committed to making a meaningful impact on rehabilitation. As a Reading Specialist Assistant at HMP/YOI Peterborough, you will play a key role in ensuring prisoners develop essential reading skills that support their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. This is an opportunity to work in a unique environment where your passion for literacy and education can make a real difference.

In this role, you will work across both the male and female establishments at HMP/YOI Peterborough, supporting prisoners to develop functional reading skills. You will be responsible for conducting baseline reading assessments, delivering targeted interventions, and monitoring progress. A key part of your role will be to create and promote initiatives that encourage reading, working closely with Shannon Trust mentors, Neurodiversity Managers, librarians, and the Education Skills and Work team to ensure comprehensive support.

You will also play an active role in the implementation of the prison-wide reading strategy, engaging with hard-to-reach individuals and those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to provide tailored reading support. Through collaboration with key stakeholders, you will contribute to the wider rehabilitation efforts at HMP/YOI Peterborough, ensuring prisoners leave custody with the literacy skills they need to succeed.
- Please see the attached job description for a more detailed list of the main responsibilities._

**Essential**:

- Educated to a high level or equivalent experience in reading support
- Proven experience of achieving successful outcomes in literacy development
- Experience working with adults with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
- Passion for rehabilitation and resettlement of offenders
- Experience in delivering literacy and numeracy interventions while monitoring progress
- Sound knowledge of SEND needs and legislation, including the SEND Code of Practice
- Strong understanding of Diversity and Inclusion principles

**Desirable**:

- Previous experience in reading support
- Experience working in a prison environment
- Evidence of professional development in literacy and phonics

**Why join us?**

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

To be considered for an interview you must:

- have a disability- defined by the Equality Act 2010

- meet all of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential.

**About**HMP & YOI Peterborough**:
**HMP & YOI Peterborough**
- Saville Road, Westfield
- Peterborough
- PE3 7PD
- United Kingdom

+44 1733 217500

Sodexo Justice Services - formerly Kalyx - runs rehabilitative justice services which change lives for the better at more than 120 sites across the world, including the full operation of four prisons in the UK.

Sodexo Justice Services has been operating since 1993, and currently provides justice services to over 30,000 offenders worldwide at any one time. We have a reputation for delivering ethical, innovative, rehabilitative and outstanding justice facilities and services, which comprehensively address our clients' requirements.

Our work around the world gives us unparalleled access to knowledge, expertise and best practice, which we share across our different operations. This helps us follow our vision to be the organisation of choice in providing both custodial and community based justice services.

The future for criminal justice is a challenging one. In reducing crime levels and reoffending rates, governments face larger obstacles now than they have for over a decade.

Sodexo Justice Services is confident of rising to this challenge. With our unrivalled operational excellence, experience, expertise, innovations, ethical principles, beliefs and values, we look forward to continuing to provide value for money solutions in both the custodial and community environments which help change lives for the better and prevent tomorrow's victims.