Phonics Higher Level Teaching Assistant

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Phonics HLTA to lead and deliver high-quality phonics interventions and support the teaching of early reading across the school. The successful candidate will hold a relevant HLTA qualification (or equivalent) and have substantial experience of delivering the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme. They will play a key role in raising standards in phonics, supporting pupils who require additional intervention and working collaboratively with teachers to ensure consistently high-quality phonics provision. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact on children's early reading development within a supportive and ambitious school community. If you are passionate about helping every child become a confident, fluent reader and are committed to achieving excellence every day, we would love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and deliver phonics interventions across the school.
• Support the teaching of early reading and work collaboratively with teachers.
• Deliver the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme.
• Raise standards in phonics and support pupils who require additional intervention.
• Ensure consistently high‑quality phonics provision.

Qualifications

• Relevant HLTA qualification (or equivalent).
• Substantial experience delivering the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme.

Illuminate Minds Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the school. Illuminate Minds Trust is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery and expects employees to comply with our values of promoting equality and diversity, treating colleagues and service users with dignity and respect at all times. This commitment must be evidenced in practice. Any behaviour that falls below these standards is unacceptable to the School and potentially constitutes misconduct. This post is considered to be a customer‑facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.