Primary Teacher - Foundation Skills Lead (Literacy & Numeracy)

Robert Barclay Academy, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, EN11 8JY

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  12 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £52,490.00 Annually (Actual) MPS/UPS + Outer Fringe Allowance

Primary Teacher - Foundation Skills Lead (Literacy & Numeracy) job summary

Primary Teacher - Foundation Skills Lead (Literacy & Numeracy)

Part Time (0.4)

Salary - MPS/UPS + Outer Fringe Allowance

Other Scholars’ Education Trust benefits are also available.

Start date: September 2026

Robert Barclay Academy is part of Scholars’ Education Trust. We are seeking an exceptional primary practitioner to join our SEND team within a secondary school setting, with a clear and powerful mission: to ensure that our most vulnerable students are ready to thrive.

This is a unique and rewarding role, perfectly suited to a primary specialist who understands the critical importance of curriculum readiness, phonics, reading development and numeracy.

We know that literacy and numeracy are the gateway to learning. Without it, students struggle to access the full richness of a secondary curriculum. In this role, you will directly tackle that barrier, changing life chances by ensuring students can succeed through small group interventions.

We are looking for a skilled and committed primary practitioner, with strong subject knowledge of early reading, phonics and numeracy interventions and strategies. You will have a strong understanding of how to diagnose gaps and deliver precise and impactful intervention. You will feel passionate about inclusion and social mobility, particularly for our vulnerable learners and thrive in collaborative environment, shaping provision across phases.

We are at a genuinely exciting stage in our journey. In March 2023, Ofsted judged Robert Barclay Academy to be ‘Good’ in all areas, recognising the rapid and sustained improvement across the school. Parent feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with Ofsted Parent View reflecting strong confidence in the school’s direction and leadership.

We are a school on the rise and as result of our rapidly improving reputation, the school is expanding due to increased pupil numbers. The successful candidate will be joining an experienced and well-established SEND team, one that embraces our Apple School status.

We place professional development at the heart of what we do. Staff benefit from an innovative induction programme and a comprehensive professional learning offer, both within Robert Barclay Academy and across the Trust, because we believe that investing in our people is the key to our success.

If you have the energy, drive and vision to improve our provision in a thriving and improving school, we would be delighted to receive your application.

Robert Barclay Academy is part of the very successful Scholars’ Education Trust. We offer an innovative induction programme and professional development programme both at Robert Barclay Academy and across the Trust, recognising that our staff are the key to our success.

If you are interested in joining us at this exciting time, further details and an application pack is available from HR@scholarseducationtrust.co.uk or on 01727 734424.

Diversity: The Scholars’ Education Trust is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We want to attract and retain the very best staff in all areas of the trust, ensuring our staff body reflects the diversity of our students and local community.

RBA is also committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in our organisation, our education system and in all aspects of our society. To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged. Scholars’ Education Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Declaration of criminal offences
The trust is required to give you the opportunity to voluntarily declare convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings that are not ‘protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). You will be provided with a criminal self-declaration form by the school if you are shortlisted for the post. All posts in schools are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If you are appointed you will be required to have an up-to-date Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate. The existence of a criminal background does not automatically mean that you cannot be appointed but it may do so.

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.

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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 Robert Barclay Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 792 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Robert Barclay Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/robert-barclay-academy

Robert Barclay Academy is part of Scholars’ Education Trust.

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