Reading Champion
Bodmin College, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DD30 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Subject to pre-employment checks being completed
Closing date
26 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,818.00 Annually (Actual)
Reading Champion job summary
We are delighted to advertise for an enthusiastic and dedicated Reading Champion to lead literacy interventions and promote a love of reading at Bodmin College.
The successful candidate will have a passion for reading and literacy, with the ability to inspire and support students of all ages and abilities. They will take a leading role in delivering targeted reading interventions, helping to close gaps in literacy and support students in building the confidence and skills needed to thrive academically.
In addition to delivering interventions, the Reading Champion will lead on developing a culture of ‘reading for pleasure’ so that all students appreciate the importance of reading. They will support the supervision and organisation of our library space during break and lunch times, creating opportunities to promote and encourage engagement with reading. The Reading Champion will play a vital role in creating a welcoming and purposeful environment that fosters independent reading and a lifelong love of books.
Bodmin College is committed to nurturing a culture of reading and learning, and the successful candidate will contribute to our wider literacy strategy across the school. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about supporting young people and who sees reading as a powerful tool for learning and personal growth.
If you would like to have an informal conversation, please contact Jo Jenkin, Assistant Headteacher via email – jjenkin@bodmin.celtrust.org
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Bodmin College is committed to the care and wellbeing of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Bodmin College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1438 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Bodmin College website
Bodmin College is a large 11-19 establishment (with Area Resource Base - ARB) providing, extensive, high quality education and care. We maintain high standards of achievement and traditional values within a disciplined and caring environment. Students are encouraged to enjoy their education, to develop respect for others and, through assuming responsibility, to develop as reliable and mature individuals ready to take an active role in adult life.
Our College is characterised by its vision of, ‘striving for excellence by putting the learner first’. We aim, in all that we do, to put students at the centre of our decision making processes and at the heart of our four key objectives which are:
• To improve the attainment and progress of all students in all subjects
• To improve the educational opportunities for all students in all subjects
• To improve the quality of the learning experience for all students in all subjects
• To assist and work in partnership with parents and carers to improve students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
This vision and our objectives are underpinned by an ethos in which we expect everyone, ‘to be kind, be polite, to be honest and to work to the very best of their ability.
With notable success as a finalists in the UK Social Mobility Awards for two consecutive years, we pride ourselves on opening doors, creating opportunity and raising aspirations.
More recently, our journey with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has seen our committed involvement in ‘The Framework for Excellence. A journey towards a world-class education system’. Within this structure, assessment has been robust and challenging, yet one in which we have been successfully recognised as providing ‘exceptional education’ through our ‘principled curriculum design’, ‘leadership through moral purpose’ and in our ‘climate for learning’ (SSAT, 2017). We have received national recognition for raising aspirations, removing barriers to social mobility and opening up world-class opportunities to our students.
Bodmin College has recently been invited to participate in the ‘Connect the Classroom’ scheme through the DfE. This scheme will see a significant investment in the IT infrastructure within the college to improve WiFi and connectivity throughout the college campus.
In addition, the college has also been successful in the exciting School Rebuilding Programme which will see another significant level of investment to improve the buildings on our site. We are hopeful that this award will assist us in continuing to develop the learning environment for all our students and staff. It is a long term project which will help us to deliver our vision for excellent education in the local area.
We achieve this only through the dedication, commitment, passion and hard work of our staff. Our staff body are valued and cared for and their wellbeing, professional development and input are important to us.
Please note that Bodmin College is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.
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