Literacy Intervention Assistant
Sale High School, Sale, Cheshire, M33 3JR12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
1 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,557.00 Annually (Actual) Starting Salary: £28,459 Actual Salary: £24,557 . Term time only plus 5 INSET days .
Literacy Intervention Assistant job summary
We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic Literacy Intervention Assistant to support students in KS3 and KS4 who require additional help with reading and writing.
Working closely with the SEND and English teams, you will deliver targeted literacy interventions using the Read Write Fresh Start programme, helping students make rapid progress in reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension and confidence.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver high-quality literacy intervention sessions.
Conduct reading assessments and monitor student progress.
Maintain accurate records using school systems.
Work collaboratively with SEND, English and pastoral teams.
Support students with literacy needs in lessons where required.
Promote high expectations and inclusive practice.
Uphold safeguarding policies and procedures.
About You
You will have:
- Experience working with children or young people in an educational setting.
- Strong literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
- The ability to build positive relationships with students.
- A commitment to safeguarding and inclusion.
- Experience of delivering phonics or literacy programmes, supporting SEND students, or using Edukey Provision Map would be advantageous.
This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful difference to students' literacy development and future success.
What we offer: More pay, more time, and more support.
Competitive salary
Enrolment into the local government pension scheme
Health Cash Plan - We offer a health cash plan giving you money towards essential medical treatment.
Guaranteed Personal day - 1 paid personal day each year, to use as you want.
Great training for your career - Excellent ongoing CPD and career development opportunities across the academy and United Learning.
Wellbeing Support - Access to a comprehensive wellbeing programme, providing support with issues from legal and financial to family and housing; access to free counselling; and other wellbeing support.
Sale High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as well as a media check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Sale High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- Up to 1080 pupils
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sale High School website
School location
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