Literacy and Oracy Leader

JOB PURPOSE:

  To ensure high quality curriculum provision and effective teaching and learning within the curriculum area. To carry out the professional duties of a qualified teacher in accordance with the Teachers’ pay and conditions.

SPECIFIC TASKS RELATED TO JOB PURPOSE:

• To be an active Reading Champion, promoting a ‘Love of Literacy’ within the Academy and the wider community. 

• To liaise with the English department to enable access and support during lessons. 

• Monitor and maintain the Reading Plus programme and the use of EPlatform within the Academy and share the results with the Head of Faculty for English.

• To assist in the planning and oversight of the general organisation and day-to-day running of the library both physical and electronic.

• Collaborate as part of the Middle Leadership Team to drive the journey of rapid and sustained improvement. 

• Provide strategic leadership for reading, writing, vocabulary and oracy throughout the Academy.

• Embed a culture, built on a love of reading, through the implementation and refinement of our Advisory time reading programme. 

• Lead assessment strategies that track reading ages and use the data and trends to inform the strategic direction of initiatives. 

• Refine our reading strategy to ensure that students, across all year groups, are engrossed in books that will further define them as avid readers. 

• Work alongside the SENCO to ensure that all students are supported to read, write and speak with fluency and purpose.

• In conjunction with the Deputy Principal (Quality of Education), monitor, review and continuously improve the quality of teaching and learning by raising the profile of reading and writing. 

• Improve student outcomes by increasing students’ ability to access, process, comprehend and respond to the curriculum. 

• Review departmental and faculty practices and support leaders to implement Academy-wide initiatives that drive their team`s performance as directed by the Deputy Principal (Quality of Education). 

• Implement and refine an effective strategy that improves every student’s ability to read well, write well and speak well. 

• Lead whole academy CPD that empowers teachers and support staff to make all students better readers, writers and speakers. 

• Promote teamwork and motivate staff to ensure effective working relations. 

• Ensure staff development needs are identified and appropriate programmes are designed to meet these needs

Other Duties

• The post holder will be subject to performance objectives agreed annually. 

• The post holder is expected to carry out such other duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Principal.

• To take on any whole school initiative or responsibility that the Principal may direct.

• The duties of this post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or level of responsibility entailed.   

Safeguarding children and young people 

 Oasis is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

This Job Description and Person Specification may be renegotiated by the Principal if the Academy faces changing circumstances

Oasis Community Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks Oasis Academies exists to provide a rich and balanced educational environment which caters for the whole person - academically, vocationally, socially, morally, spiritually, physically, emotionally and environmentally. Our task is to serve our learners as well as to provide a learning hub for the entire community. In this way we will raise aspirations, unlock potential and work to achieve excellence through encouraging a ‘can do’ culture which nurtures confident and competent people.