Early Years Educator and Phonics Intervention Specialist

Early Years Educator & Phonics Intervention Specialist

Grade - L5/L6 (Dependent on qualifications and experience)

Part Time Role - 3 days per week

We are seeking an enthusiastic, inspiring and committed Early Years Educator and Phonics Intervention Specialist to join our friendly and supportive team.

The successful candidate will support children’s learning, development and wellbeing in line with the EYFS, delivering engaging activities within a safe, inclusive and stimulating environment. They will build positive relationships with children, families and colleagues, uphold safeguarding requirements, and deliver systematic synthetic phonics interventions to individuals and small groups across the school, monitoring and tracking progress to help every child achieve their full potential.

The post holder will be required to:

• Work with individuals and groups to support pupils’ learning.
• Have daily routine contact with teachers and contact, as appropriate, with parents.
• Prepare educational resources and carry out some clerical duties.
• Be an effective member of the teaching team; working cooperatively at all times to ensure that the changing needs of the pupils and staff are met.
• Assist with the playground supervision and supervision of groups of children.
• Assist with first aid and personal care.
• Plan and deliver high quality structured phonics sessions following the school’s chosen programme, which is Little Wandle.
• Ensure fidelity and consistency to the phonics scheme across all groups and sessions.
• Prepare and support pupils for statutory milestones, including the Year 1 phonics screening check.
• Deliver daily phonics lessons as well as rapid “keep up” and “catch up” intervention sessions for children who are at risk of, or are, falling behind.

KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• Communicates well with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the wellbeing and development of the pupils.
• Provides constructive feedback to contribute to the monitoring of pupils and to inform progress and planning.
• Uses own initiative to produce resources in an imaginative and creative way, on time and to the standards required.
• Contributes, under the direction of the teacher, to both individual and group plans and assessment procedures.

OTHER

• Undertaking duties in line with the Health and Safety policies of the School.
• To engage actively with the School’s performance development review processes and take responsibility for own development.
• Undertake other duties which may arise from time to time, to be agreed with your Line Manager.

Education/Qualifications

• NNEB or BTEC or NVQ level 3 in childcare or an equivalent qualification.
• Higher Level Teaching Assistant standards (NVQ Level 4) or equivalent early years qualification or equivalent experience.

Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 8th November 2026