Job: Reading Recovery Teacher
School: Secondary Academy, Lambeth, South London
Start date: September 2025 / ASAP
Salary: MPS/UPS (inner London)
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Aston Education is looking for a Reading Recovery Teacher for an Ofsted Good 11-16 secondary school in Lambeth, South London. The ideal candidate is a teacher with primary experience and QTS.
The school is fully committed to ensuring that their students have a good reading age, so that they have the best opportunity to get the highest outcomes at GCSE. Reading underpins everything they do.
The school offers:
1. Additional PPA time for all teachers: The school believes that lessons are better taught when teachers have enough time to plan, prepare and assess. All teachers receive a minimum of 5 hours of non-contact time each week during the school day.
2. Teachers' pension
3. Excellent facilities
4. Excellent professional development programme
5. Funding for a range of Masters qualifications
6. Confidential coaching sessions
7. Confidential counselling sessions
8. Cycle to work scheme
9. Annual travel season ticket loan
As a Reading Recovery Teacher, you'll deliver 1:1 interventions for students experiencing reading difficulties. You can demonstrate a strong understanding and experience of phonics and reading. You have experience carrying out baseline assessments and creating individualised reading profiles, which you have applied to plan targeted sessions addressing identified reading deficits.
You have:
10. Primary teaching experience and QTS.
11. Proven experience in delivering 1:1 interventions with children or young people experiencing reading difficulties.
12. Experience of drawing on teacher feedback and assessment reports to plan well-structured lessons that close learning gaps and support sustained progress.
13. Ability to plan and deliver individualised support tailored to specific learner needs.
14. Strong knowledge of the orthographic layers (Alphabetic, Pattern, and Meaning/Morphemic) and how these underpin pupils' progression towards reading fluency.
15. Experience in implementing a range of evidence-based reading interventions, such as:
16. Precision Teaching
17. Better Reading Support Partners (BRSP)
18. Reading Recovery
19. Paired Reading
20. Demonstrated interest in and passion for reading, with the ability to inspire this in pupils.
21. Experience of supporting children and young people to address phonological awareness weaknesses.
Ofsted says: This is a caring school with an inclusive ethos. Leaders have created a strong community feel. Pupils spoken to said, 'this school is very welcoming and open' and 'it feels like family'. They behave well during lessons and around the school site.
This is a vibrant and oversubscribed school.
Closing date: As soon as possible
Please contact Tarja Aila at Aston Education for an informal chat and to apply for this permanent Reading Recovery Teacher job.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.