Reading Champion
Stratton Upper School, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, SG18 8JB9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
13 May 2024 at 10am
Date listed
22 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Reading and Literacy
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £19,588.80 - £20,246.15 Annually (Actual) Grade 4, points 3-5, £22,737 - £23,500 FTE
Reading Champion job summary
VACANCY FOR A READING CHAMPION AT STRATTON UPPER SCHOOL
Salary: Grade 4, points 3-5. £19,588.80 - £20,246.15 actual earnings (£22,737 - £23,500 FTE)
Hours of work: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time + 5 training days)
We are looking for motivated and organised person to champion Reading & Literacy across the school, whilst managing the library resources. You will assist with multiple initiatives within the school relating to reading and literacy, ensuring our students reach their full potential and find a love of reading.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about literacy and appreciates the benefit library facilities have, both the school and our students.
The Opportunity
- Effectively supervise the library during open times and support students, interactively, with independent study.
- Consistently maintain and catalogue resources.
- Create a visually stimulating and appropriate learning environment.
- Champion reading programmes and coordinate whole school reading activities.
- Lead small reading groups and literacy-based interventions.
The ideal candidate
- Has previous experience in a similar environment.
- Highly organised and confident in their work.
- Enthusiastic about literacy and reading.
- Has a positive and enthusiastic approach towards work.
Benefits of working for us:
As a multi-academy trust of 30 schools, Meridian Trust can provide a wide network of opportunities for collaboration and career development for both teaching and support staff. With an initial teaching training facility and a teaching hub network within our Trust, there are ample opportunities to both, get into teaching, and develop within the profession.
As well as the above we also offer:
- Unlimited access to CPD via Meridian Learning
- Free annual eye tests
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support
- Unlimited value cycle to work scheme
To see the full range of benefits available, please visit Employee Benefits - Meridian Trust
Stratton is a vibrant Upper School with around 900 students on roll. We believe in every child striving for and achieving their full potential and all staff encourage them to be the best they can be. We value our partnerships with parents and carer, along with the wider community, to uphold the traditional values of respect and tolerance. We are proud of our large and successful Sixth Form and the breadth of curriculum we can offer our post-16 students. Our students are our best advertisement, although closely followed by our dedicated, creative, and passionate staff.
Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities.
Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk
For more information about the role please download the Applicant Information Pack below.
Closing date for applications is 13/05/2024 at 09:00am
Interview to take place week commencing 13/05/2024
Early applications and visits to the school are encouraged, to arrange a visit please contact Justine McCarthy, PA to Principal on principalspa@stratton.school
Please note that Stratton Upper School reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the application deadline.
The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.
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.
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This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
About Stratton Upper School
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 832 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Stratton Upper School website (opens in new tab)
Stratton is a thriving Upper School with around 1,000 students on roll. The school has grown considerably in recent years; it is popular with the local community and includes over 250 students in the Sixth Form. In many respects we are a true comprehensive school with a full ability range. As the only education provider in the town, our challenge is to move effortlessly between preparing Yr13 students for top universities to working with students who without our support could have rejected the concept of education. Our students are our best advertisement, although closely followed by the dedication of our staff.
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