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[260626] Read Write Inclusion Assessment Lead at Hill View Primary Academy
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[260626] Read Write Inclusion Assessment Lead at Hill View Primary Academy
Read Write Inc. Assessment Lead
About the Role
Hill View Primary, part of Reach South Academy Trust, is seeking to appoint an experienced Read Write Inc. Assessment Lead to join the school on 1st September 2026.
- Post: RWI Assessment Lead
- Location: Hill View Primary, Hill View Road, Bournemouth, BH10 5BD
- FTE Salary Range: BG4 scale point 6–9; £25,989–£27,254
- Actual Salary Range (Pro Rata for 25 hrs/week): £15,626–£16,387
- Contract Type: Permanent Term time only (39 weeks/year; Monday to Friday, 8.45am–3pm)
** Purpose of the Role**
We seek someone passionate about reading and books who will champion literacy development from early Years to Year 6, ensuring every child becomes a fluent reader. The ** RWI Assessment Lead** will hold accountability for teaching phonics, monitoring progress, and supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality RWI provision.
Key Responsibilities
You will take responsibility for:
- Ensuring comprehensive assessment of phonics progression and intervening where necessary, including organising and delivering training for staff.
- Delivering high-quality phonics lessons for small groups—coaching and modelling good practice across the school.
- Supporting teachers and teaching assistants in implementing the RWI curriculum, including assessing and tailoring phonics interventions.
- Monitoring individual/cohort progress, liaising with class teachers, and ensuring pupils receive targeted support.
- Maintaining accurate records, sharing data with senior leaders, and aligning assessments with the school’s RWI policy.
- Advancing the school’s RWI practice through continuous professional development, with logistical and upskilling support provided as needed.
Teamwork expected: Collaboration with senior leaders, teachers, and support staff to embed a cohesive, evidence-based phonics programme.
Key Person Specifications
You must meet the following criteria:
- Significant experience in delivering Read Write Inc.Q Blake assessment, especially in managing assessments and supporting staff implementation.
- Confidence and independence to manage workloads, liaise with stakeholders, and adapt strategies based on data.
- Strong repertoire in:
- Teaching decodable phonics, including Group Reading sessions.
- Developing phonics screening mechanics and interventions.
- Proven ability to model and mentor colleagues in best practice.
- Experience or empathy working with small groups of children (Year R–6) for parallel phonics/input sessions.
- Ability to:
- Advise on differentiated RWI delivery strategies.
- Liaise proactively with staff to improve outcomes for vulnerable pupils or low-decoders.
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Desirable skilss:
- Former teacher status or SEN/light intervention experience in primary phonics recovery/remediation.
- Experience with other structured phonics schemes (e.g., чтобы Beamtree, ‘Letters and Sounds’).
- Restrained, motivational skills with challenging behaviours or reluctant readers.
Provisional Training and Support
- All necessary RWI training/events will be reimbursed/refreshed as needed.
- Staff will receive ongoing coaching, supervision, and quality assurance to sustain excellence.
Requirements
Essential:
✔ Athletics clearance; ✔ Enhanced DBS check requirement – successful applicants will undergo checks. ✔ Commitment to upholding Reach South’s inclusivity, safeguarding, and multi-academy trust (MAT) values.
Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding
- The academy is committed to ** Equal Opportunities** and requests you complete a monitoring session on the application. Applications are viewed anonymously during the first stage.
- Safeguarding is core – each employee is required to DBS-checked Enhanced, attend safe guard-aided training, and conform to academy safeguarding policies.
Further Information
Next Steps
- Apply via this link: Open this advert’s application platform.
- Applications must postmarked by Sunday, 12th July 2026 (midnight); interviews tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, June 21rd. (Note: Reach South reserves the right to interview early applicants—prior to closing date reach out early for the best chance.)
- Queries: Email [recruiter@contact email - hidden] or call 07759 365064.
Opportunities and Benefits
- Competitive salary & LGPS pension
- Career/professional growth within Reach South’s diverse network:
- Cross-district collaboration with host schools.
- Training access to e-learning, face-to-face workshops, and the wider learning community of 21 academies.
- Personal and team development through:
- Regular action-plan meetings with leadership.
- Opportunities for peer school visits and professional networks.
- Frontline partnership: Work in hilarious, friendly, experienced teams with a shared vision: ‘**ASCENT’—
An ever-changing positive culturemelding community, emotions, and future thinking. - Family-friendly: Term-time contract with 39 hours/annum.
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About Reach South Academy Trust
The Family Network
We unite 21 academies across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, from nursery to 19-years-old. Among these:
- Special- and bespoke-provision schools for 250+ pupils with complex-needs.
- Central hubs for structured support for SEN (autism/emotional-behavioural/SMH) and those requiring alternative approaches.
Our Values/Growth-Promise
recruit for people who match our: – Commitment to collaborative, reflective practice. – Understanding of community-radeness as sacresendable. – Driven mandate to help every pupil thrive.
Together, our schools are united in supporting equity, curiosity, progress & joy. Why join? To truly transform lives.
About Hill View Primary
Foundational Philosophy
- Spacious, happy, and academically innovative, serving 340 primary-aged children.
- Recent Ofsted reviews (May 2024): Pupils leave as happy, grown readers. University-profondhship and strengthfjord schools within the trust so you’re never out-scouted by how I work.
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Highlights
- Three-form entry with wide-reaching enrichment.
- Merry pathways annual millenniae:` monitor and decorate the school become**
- A proactive OFSTED team ensures skills, spiritual, moral and cultural development aren’t side-tracked.
Trusted & Family Friendly
- Parents highly appreciate:
- the "highlyemotive environment and support teams.
- our playing situations and traditions enable closeness between staff and families.
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