Learning Support Literacy Lead

St George's School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4TD

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP - Subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  23 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  12 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,347.00 - £23,091.00 Annually (Actual) H5 Grade

Learning Support Literacy Lead job summary

We are seeking a professional and caring individual to work closely between the Learning Support Department and wider curriculum departments to improve engagement and outcomes for pupils with SEND in their literacy skills, with a focus on KS3 and KS4.

You will provide support for our highest need pupils, as well as working with the Director of Learning - English and School Literacy Lead to develop and deliver programmes of support and intervention for pupils with literacy barriers to learning.

The successful candidate should have:

• Literacy and numeracy skills equivalent to NVQ Level 2 or GCSE Grade C in English and Maths

• Good literacy skills supported by relevant qualifications

• Deep understanding of literacy and its impact on learning

• Experience with SEN students or willingness to develop skills

• Ability to work with a minimum of supervision and within a team

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Excellent organisational skills

Contract: Permanent

Grade: H5 (Full-time equivalent salary from £27,254 to £29,540 per annum, plus annual outer fringe allowance of £729)

Hours:

• 33 hours per week across five days (Mondays to Fridays)

• Term time plus 1 week

Working hours:

• Monday to Thursday8:30 am - 3:45 pm
• Friday 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
• Including 30-minute unpaid lunch break (with free lunch on site)

Actual Salary: £21,347 to £23,091 per annum, inclusive of outer fringe allowance (i.e. roughly 0.76 of Full-time equivalent)

We can offer:

• Additional training and support
• Ongoing professional development
• Free Lunch on working days
• Free parking on school site
• Term time working
• Generous pension scheme
• Use of the school’s fitness suite/Gym
• Staff Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• As a permanent member of staff you benefit from the application being favourably ranked if you apply for a day admission place for your child at St George’s school, subject to meeting the requirements of our published Admissions Criteria and Policy

Please refer to these documents for further details:

• Job Description

• Working at St George's School

Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.

Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)

St George’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).

Online Searches

We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the selection and appointment process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.

Right to work in UK

We will require you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such evidence will need to be provided should an offer of employment be made.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 St George's School

• School type: Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1362 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St George's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-george-s-school-harpenden

DO YOU WANT TO WORK WHERE YOU FEEL YOU BELONG?

TEN GREAT REASONS TO JOIN THE ST GEORGE'S TEAM

1. Be part of a vibrant, inspiring and supportive team
2. Everyone’s contributions are valued and encouraged
3. A place where your work will ‘make a difference’ and be appreciated by pupils
4. Learning is what we do; with passion
5. Unique opportunity to work in one of the leading state boarding schools in the country
6. Students champion and promote our community’s high standards and aspirations
7. Excellent behaviour is the norm, not the exception
8. Career development is encouraged and supported through great training
9. A sense of belonging; part of a community and the St George’s ‘Family’
10. Where the worst thing about work is going home at night
Working at St George’s also comes with a number of free additional fringe benefits*: childcare voucher scheme; Employee Assistance Programme; on-site parking; access to excellent sports and fitness facilities and provision of lunch. On-site accommodation for specific posts may also available at reduced rates.

* Staff terms and conditions are liable to review and change from time to time

In 2014 OFSTED wrote that "This school has got the magic formula", and we have to say we agree!

St George’s is a unique place to work. It is the perfect blend of high quality, innovative teaching and a community which cares. It has a highly supportive pastoral system as well as a residential state boarding community, all of which is firmly cemented in our Christian principles and strong commitment to our values of mutual respect, endeavour and sense of community. We hold on to our tradition and embrace the future with equal relish.

St George’s is consistently in the top percentile of schools nationally for academic performance and rated outstanding by Ofsted. However we are not driven by such external measures but by our passion to provide the best learning and life experience we can for the pupils entrusted to our care.

We hope that you will share our enthusiasm and drive to continue to make St George’s an exciting place to work and learn.

Join us for a career at a school that certainly wants us to "Aim Higher".

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