Early Years Educator and Phonics Intervention Specialist

Leagrave Primary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4 9ND

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  8 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: L5/L6 (Dependent on qualifications and experience)

Early Years Educator and Phonics Intervention Specialist job summary

Early Years Educator & Phonics Intervention Specialist

Grade - L5/L6 (Dependent on qualifications and experience)

Part Time Role - 3 days per week

We are seeking an enthusiastic, inspiring and committed Early Years Educator and Phonics Intervention Specialist to join our friendly and supportive team.

The successful candidate will support children’s learning, development and wellbeing in line with the EYFS, delivering engaging activities within a safe, inclusive and stimulating environment. They will build positive relationships with children, families and colleagues, uphold safeguarding requirements, and deliver systematic synthetic phonics interventions to individuals and small groups across the school, monitoring and tracking progress to help every child achieve their full potential.

The post holder will be required to:

• Work with individuals and groups to support pupils’ learning.
• Have daily routine contact with teachers and contact, as appropriate, with parents.
• Prepare educational resources and carry out some clerical duties.
• Be an effective member of the teaching team; working cooperatively at all times to ensure that the changing needs of the pupils and staff are met.
• Assist with the playground supervision and supervision of groups of children.
• Assist with first aid and personal care.
• Plan and deliver high quality structured phonics sessions following the school’s chosen programme, which is Little Wandle.
• Ensure fidelity and consistency to the phonics scheme across all groups and sessions.
• Prepare and support pupils for statutory milestones, including the Year 1 phonics screening check.
• Deliver daily phonics lessons as well as rapid “keep up” and “catch up” intervention sessions for children who are at risk of, or are, falling behind.

KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• Communicates well with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the wellbeing and development of the pupils.
• Provides constructive feedback to contribute to the monitoring of pupils and to inform progress and planning.
• Uses own initiative to produce resources in an imaginative and creative way, on time and to the standards required.
• Contributes, under the direction of the teacher, to both individual and group plans and assessment procedures.

OTHER

• Undertaking duties in line with the Health and Safety policies of the School.
• To engage actively with the School’s performance development review processes and take responsibility for own development.
• Undertake other duties which may arise from time to time, to be agreed with your Line Manager.

Education/Qualifications

• NNEB or BTEC or NVQ level 3 in childcare or an equivalent qualification.
• Higher Level Teaching Assistant standards (NVQ Level 4) or equivalent early years qualification or equivalent experience.

Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 8th November 2026

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Leagrave Primary School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 457 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Leagrave Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/leagrave-primary-school

“THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING SCHOOL “(OFSTED INSPECTION DECEMBER 2018).
We are a thriving and vibrant Primary School based in the west of Luton. We aim to give every child the best possible start to their education and strongly believe in our mission statement: ‘Striving For Excellence, Learning For Life.’

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