Raising Achievement Assistant (Reading Intervention Lead)

Queensbridge School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 8QB

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time 36.5 hours per week Term Time Only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual Salary £26,836.27-£28,676.05
• Pay scale: GR3C £30,559 (SCP18) - £32,654 (SCP22) pro rata

What skills and experience we're looking for

About the Role:

• Plan and maintain a schedule of reading assessments to accurately determine students’ current reading ages
• Analyse reading test data and identify students requiring targeted interventions to support access to the wider curriculum
• Organise and oversee 9-week intervention cycles, including monitoring and evaluation their effectiveness
• Ensure staff delivering reading interventions are well-trained and equipped with the necessary resources

About You:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Organisational skills
• Commitment to education and ensuring equal opportunities
• Previous experience with children or young people, particularly in a school setting
• You will need empathy, patience and resilience

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you;

• A positive and high performing learning culture supported by students, staff, parents and governors
• A commitment to your own personal development with a high-quality programme for all staff at all stages of their professional career
• A friendly and supportive workplace that prioritises wellbeing
• Discounted access to BSHF medical insurance for you and your family
• Enrolment into the West Midlands Pension Scheme

Further details about the role

Queensbridge School is looking to recruit a strong Raising Achievement Assistant who will share our determination to transform the life chances of our 900 pupils.

A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen and we are seeking to strengthen and increase our SEND team. You will have a strong level of education and will genuinely want to make a difference in supporting pupils through the academic challenge of the 9 to 1 examination system.

You would be expected to identify students in greatest need of reading interventions and co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate programmes to enable them to make rapid progress so that they are able to access the curriculum.

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

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About Queensbridge School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 907 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queensbridge School website
• Email address: recruitment@queensbridge.bham.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01214645566
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queensbridge-school

Arranging a visit to Queensbridge School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@queensbridge.bham.sch.uk.

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