Literacy Support(Full time)

St Dominic's School, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 4DX

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  to be confirmed

• Closing date

  12 April 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5hrs/week; 8:30 - 16:00 with 1-hour lunch break (unpaid), TTO
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,565.59 - £24,711.24 per annum (£30,484 - £31,966), Dependent on qualifications and experience
• Pay scale: Scale point 23 – Scale point 25

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint confident and self-motivated individuals 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure that interventions are matched by practice in the classroom.
• To ensure that pupils/students who have literacy-related special educational needs or other needs affecting literacy make progress.
• To deliver literacy interventions in small groups around phonics and guided reading across the school.
• To work collaboratively with the Head of English to plan and oversee provision and tracking of Wave 2 and Wave 3 interventions in literacy

Key Requirements:

• GCSE or equivalent in English
• Experience working in an educational setting
• Ability to think, write and speak clearly and concisely
• Confidence and self-motivation in exercising appropriate initiative

What the school offers its staff

OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of the benefits available to our employees:

Rewards & Benefits:

• Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.

• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme, Employee Car Lease Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme)
• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)

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

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Additional Support Literacy JD - March 2026.pdf - 260 KB (opens in new tab)

About St Dominic's School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 19
• School size: 162 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Dominic's School website
• Email address: zpetkova@stdominicsschool.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-dominic-s-school-godalming

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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