Vacancy Details
Vacancy Summary
Literacy Specialist
Salary: Day rate of £350
An exciting opportunity for teachers with a passion for early language development and teaching phonics to share those skills and deliver support to local schools across Bradford and North Yorkshire.
You will provide an intensive school to school support package including audits of early language development, reading and phonics provision in schools across the area. We are looking for applications from teachers and schools who would like to take on this role for 1 day a week, or 2-3 days per half term.
Vacancy Information
Burley and Woodhead CE Primary has been designated as one of 34 schools across the country to lead an English Hub. The Hub is responsible for promoting early language development, age-appropriate phonics provision and a love of reading in pupils. Over the past 7 years, we have supported many schools in Bradford, Richmondshire and Craven with phonics and early reading teaching.
You will:
- Have excellent teaching skills in phonics as evidenced by internal/exernal/Ofsted observation
- Be passionate about early reading and phonics and able to support other schools in developing their own practice
- Be able to work collaboratively with the Burley Woodhead English Hub team
- Have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills and the confidence to lead presentations and showcase events
- Be able to commit to the Hub support programme
In return, we offer:
- The opportunity to work within a highly respected team across Bradford and North Yorkshire, the DfE and the English Hubs network
- Excellent links with school leaders across the area and the country
- The opportunity to develop as a specialist teacher of primary Literacy
- Day release funded at £350 a day to your school, with additional payments for travel, preparation and debrief time
Further information about our English Hub can be found here: https://www.burleywoodheadenglishhub.com/
To apply, go to https://www.burleywoodhead.com/about-us/vacancies
Closing Date: 12 Noon, Tuesday 6 May 2025
Interviews: Thursday 8 May 2025