Literacy Support Assistant
St Dominic's School, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 4DX21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
12 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, 8:30 – 16:00, Term Time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade R3, scale point 16 – Grade R4, scale point 21. FTE: £28,258 – £30,294 per annum (Actual: £21,884.78 – £23,418.71), depending on experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a confident and self-motivated individual to provide specialist skills and knowledge to ensure that pupils and students who have literacy-related special educational needs or other needs affecting literacy make progress.
You will conduct ongoing literacy assessments of pupils and students to ensure that interventions are matched effectively. This will involve planning, preparing and delivering literacy learning programmes and monitoring the pupils/students by assessing, recording and reporting on their achievements, progress and development.
Applicants need to possess strong literacy skills and will be required to sit a literacy test as part of the interview process. Where necessary, training will be provided for the successful candidate.
What the school offers its staff
Previous experience of working with children in an educational setting is essential
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
Benefits include: Free car parking, lunch provided on site, and Employee Assistance Programme
Commitment to safeguarding
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About St Dominic's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 19
- School size
- 157 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- St Dominic's School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@stdominicsschool.org.uk
St Dominic’s School is a special academy in Surrey and provides outstanding education for pupils and students aged 7-19 typically with a primary diagnosis of Speech Language & Communication Needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition. The school is located in Hambledon, close to Witley, Milford, Guildford and Godalming.
We are part of Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a specialist Trust with 12 Academies and seven College Centres across London, Surrey and Sussex.
At St Dominic’s we believe passionately in a multi-disciplinary, ‘needs led’ approach to meeting each child’s and young person’s needs, resulting in carefully managed groupings, including specialist intervention work from our in house therapeutic team.
The school works closely in partnership with families, referring authorities and external agencies to coordinate the best possible education, care, guidance and support for its pupils and students.
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