Reading Support Practitioner

St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 6LZ

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBA

• Closing date

  6 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,102.00 - £25,580.00 Annually (Actual) Level 5, SCP 7-12

Reading Support Practitioner job summary

The Academy is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic individual who can work alongside our Leader of Literacy to promote a love of reading across and throughout the school. The successful applicant will also play an integral role in the organisation and delivery of our highly effective reading intervention programme, Lexonik as well as helping to develop our students’ study skills, including how to access and research information to supplement their learning. The school has a purpose-built library from where the successful applicant will be based and, as such, there will be the opportunity to aid the strategic development of this bespoke space to ensure it serves the needs of all our students.

We are extremely proud of our enthusiastic and ambitious staff who are committed to helping our students become the very best they can be. We are therefore seeking an ambitious and dedicated individual who can help us in our mission and this highly important aspect of our school development.

The academy enjoys the active support of the newly formed St Gabriel the Archangel CMAT and the Archdiocese of Birmingham. As such, the successful candidate will enjoy access to a wide range of professional development.

The Academy are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all of its employees to share this commitment. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Amendment Order 1986 and, as such, it will be necessary for a Submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous convictions. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online/social media check in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, September 2023.

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

The Academy is committed to the safeguarding and welfare
of children and young people and expects all of its employees
to share this commitment. This post is subject to the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Amendment
Order 1986 and, as such, it will be necessary for a Submission
for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring
Service to check for any previous convictions

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 St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1139 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-margaret-ward-catholic-academy

St Margaret Ward is a happy, popular, oversubscribed 11-18
academy with an impressive record of success, acknowledged in
our inspection in September 2021 (full report on school/Ofsted
website).

We are extremely proud of our enthusiastic and ambitious staff
who are committed to helping our students become the very best
they can be and, as such, the Academy Directors are seeking an ambitious and dedicated individual who can help us in our mission

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