Literacy Support Assistant

The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LH

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  3 September 2026

• Closing date

  2 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,681.16 - £20,199.90 Annually (Actual) LGPS Scale 4 Point 8 - Scale 5 Point 13, inclusive of outer fringe

Literacy Support Assistant job summary

We seek a committed and enthusiastic person to support our Personalised Learning team in the delivery of our literacy intervention programme. The ideal candidate will support students to access the curriculum in line with the code of practice, school policies and procedures. They will be working with small groups of students to deliver a literacy programme, specifically focusing on phonics, reading and comprehension. They will need to be able to work self motivated and individually, as well as part of a large department within the school community.

Main duties include:

• Deliver targeted literacy interventions to groups of students
• Actively team teach and provide skilled support to students in mainstream classrooms, working collaboratively with classroom teachers
• Work with named individuals or small groups to facilitate access to the curriculum, develop student confidence and promote independent learning skills
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of children with special educational needs within the classroom

Our Governing body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, and where applicable a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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 The Billericay School

• School type: Academies, None, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1702 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Billericay School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-billericay-school

The Billericay School is one of the largest schools in Essex with a roll of almost 1700 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form. The school site enjoys an enviable location; close to the town centre, yet situated in spacious grounds, the school is positioned on an elevated site with distant and sweeping views down towards the River Thames and beyond. In times past, a windmill stood nearby, a piece of local history still commemorated in the school badge.

Teaching takes place in five principal blocks.

The original structure, that dates from the school's foundation some sixty years ago includes an open air, furnished and planted quadrangle for lower school students to use during the summer months.

Other buildings include a modern Technology and Business Studies block, an Art, Food Technology and Textiles building and a Sixth Form Centre that provides a modern, attractive environment for our older students.

Other resources include a large assembly hall with television link, a drama studio, a music suite with recording studio, a media area with video editing suite and a large library/ resource based learning centre, which includes extensive ICT and study facilities as well as housing over 30,000 books.

The school's sporting facilities are exceptional, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium and fitness suite.

Our grounds include tennis and netball courts and football, rugby and cricket pitches. The school has recently achieved the national Sportsmark Award for its sporting excellence and work with the community.

The school also has a medical room, with the services of qualified staff throughout the school day.

It is also worthy of note that many of our staff have chosen to send their own children to the school. What greater sign of confidence could there be!

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