Reading Support Specialist (DPS

Our Reading Support Specialist here at People Plus work collaboratively Education, Industries and the wider prison to provide support to prisoners with reading needs. Their role is to promote an effective and inclusive learning environment, providing support to learners over the course of the working week and screening prisoners with low level reading ability.

As a successful Reading Support Specialist, you will be a passionate, creative, and empathetic towards our learners and prisoners and be able to offer knowledge and guidance and support to prisoners with reading needs including those with neurodiverse needs and disabilities.

Key Responsibilities include:

• To conduct reading screeners with prisoners.
• To develop and implement reading interventions for individuals or groups of prisoners using That Reading Thing or equivalent phonics intervention programs.
• Write and update reading profiles for all prisoners that complete a reading screener and share reading information through Virtual Campus (VC2).
• Track and report on reading progress of prisoners monthly following screening, intervention and re-screening.
• Develop resources to help support prisoners with low level reading ability.
• Collaborate with education and prison colleagues to ensure a holistic approach in supporting prisoners with emerging reading needs.
• Deliver creative support for emerging readers to enable prisone...