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Yorkshire Endeavour English Hub

Literacy Specialist (Secondment)

Contract: Secondment, November 4th 2024 – 22nd July 2025
Closing Date: 11:59pm Thursday 17th October 2024
Are you an experienced EYFS/KS1 Teacher with a passion for reading? Or as a headteacher, do you have a staff member who would add value to your school from completing this secondment?

The DFE English Hub

‘Nurturing confident, life-long readers to achieve, regardless of background or starting point.’
Yorkshire Endeavour Academy Trust are one of the founding 34 hubs nationally to be a designated ‘English Hub’, a DfE funded program, which aims for all children to achieve the best possible outcomes in early reading. The Hub aims to promote early language development, systematic synthetic phonics provision and a love of reading amongst primary pupils, with a particular focus upon EYFS and KS1.
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The Literacy Specialist Role

Yorkshire Endeavour English Hub is seeking to recruit an outstanding primary teacher to work as a Literacy Specialist on a secondment basis.
You will undergo training through the English Hub programme and DfE, to develop your role and offer support to schools in our region (North Yorkshire Coast, Hambleton, Ryedale, East Riding and York City).
We are looking for a passionate and experienced EYFS/KS1 Teacher who has an excellent knowledge of Early Reading and Phonics. You will need to have experience taking a leading role in their phase/ school and have a proven track record of improving early reading outcomes.

Role duties:

  • Support partner school leaders to implement the ‘Challenge Checklist’ (a list of DfE approved objectives for Early Reading) across a specified number days next academic year.
  • Coach leaders and teachers within their designated Partner Schools to improve quality of SSP and Early Reading teaching.
  • Track the schools progress in early reading through rigorous data analysis, supporting leaders to implement interventions and close gaps.
  • Ensure partner school Reading Leaders submit half-termly progress data to the hub.
  • Produce an ‘Action Plan’ report after each visit, detailing measurable, specific actions for implementation.
  • Ensure that their own practice is outstanding by aiming for at least 90% in the Phonics Screening Check in their home school.

Our Hub Lead will ensure you are fully supported by:

  • Providing professional development and training from the DfE, SSP providers, English Hubs network and other external specialists.
  • Supporting LS’s on joint Partner School visits.
  • Meeting frequently with the LS team to reaffirm core messages, deliver CPD and support with analysing school data.
  • Providing you with systems and key documentation to ensure consistency across all LS reporting and support.
  • Providing you with opportunities to observe best practice SSP in other schools.
  • Ensuring communication lines are always open at anytime.
  • Ensuring you receive on-going relevant training required to carry out the role.

Your Home School

Your current school need to ensure that it has the capacity, expertise and desire to allow the Literacy Specialist to be released to take part in school-to-school support for the duration of the academic year (November 2024-July 2025).

Time commitment:

The Literacy Specialist will be seconded from their home school for the following time during the 2024-2025 academic year:
  • 2 Literacy Specialist Development Days - Thursday 27th March 2025, Thursday 10th July 2025- Locations TBC
  • 1 National Literacy Specialist Conference -Malmaison Hotel York, Friday 15th November
  • 3 Training Days - Including DfE, SSP and shadow days
  • 2 two-hour virtual Progress Meetings 1:1 with Hub Lead (Spring and Summer)
  • Between 12-32 days to support Partner Schools, with 0.2 PPA time provided by the home school in addition for each release day. (Home school to specify the maximum number of Partner School days, in addition to the training above, the potential LS is able to complete)

Funding:

  • For each day working as a Literacy Specialist with a partner school, the releasing school will be funded at an ‘SLE rate’ of £350 per day. For Partner School support visits 0.2 days (£70) is added to total £420 for backfill.
Applicants, in conjunction with their Headteacher (or equivalent), should complete the application form and submit it to Chloe.Bullen@northyorks.gov.uk
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We do not accept CV’s.
Should you be successfully shortlisted, you will be interviewed and observed in your current home school.

Queries 

Please contact Chloe Bullen at Chloe.Bullen@northyorks.gov.uk or on 01609 536 964 
Please note this post is in regulated activity and exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS criminal records and barred list check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
 
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