Full or part-time Literacy Tutor (BDA accredited Level 5 or equivalent) at More House School – commencing April 2026

Full or part-time, permanent, non-residential position in an Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ School.
We are looking for a BDA accredited Level 5 (or equivalent) Literacy Tutor to join our dynamic team in April 2026. We offer excellent training and support working in a unique, friendly and professional environment.
Our tutors and therapists are inspiring and creative, transforming the futures of intelligent pupils with literacy and language-related additional learning challenges, by empowering them. Come and join us for an exciting opportunity to work directly with children and young people, supporting them to develop, thrive and reach their full potential.

Our Vision: To lead in transforming the futures of intelligent children who experience Specific Learning Difficulties, Developmental Language Disorder and associated conditions, by empowering them.

Our Mission: To empower our pupils to transform their futures.

Our Shared Values: Kindness, Spirit and Responsibility

About this post:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Literacy Tutor to join our department. The post will involve managing and delivering Literacy Tuition to a varied caseload of boys aged 8-18. Students at More House School are academically able, but struggle in education due to Specific Learning Difficulties, Speech, Language and Communication difficulties and related SEND needs. Literacy tuition is delivered in small groups of between three and five boys and is integrated into the whole school timetable, so that no student is withdrawn from lessons. The Literacy team meets regularly for CPD and support is provided both formally and informally.
All school employees benefit from free on-site parking, and excellent free lunchtime meals in the school’s refectory. School terms are shorter than in the state-maintained sector, with generous school holidays. A comprehensive induction programme is provided, and ongoing professional development is supported through INSET days and training opportunities.
Tuition will include any or all of the following:
Phonological processing, reading accuracy and fluency, reading comprehension, spelling, essay planning, grammatical structure, study skills and exam technique.
Other duties will be as follows:
• Writing session notes and keeping appropriate records;
• Attending interdepartmental and whole school meetings;
• Supporting students in class;
• Supporting students in public exams;
• Liaising with teaching staff;
• Advising parents and attending Parents’ Evenings;
• Supervising break times;
• Writing annual reviews of progress;
• Recording half termly progress;
• Weekly mentoring of a small group of boys;
The above list of duties is not exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to perform such other duties as may be, from time to time, deemed necessary by the Headmaster. This is a non-residential post.

Training:
Teachers, tutors and therapists with a genuine wish to develop their skills in making learning opportunities successful for neuro-diverse learners thrive at More House School.
The School provides staff with extensive, specialist training in developing practice effective in supporting intelligent pupils with literacy and developmental language weaknesses, and associated special educational needs, to succeed and to transform their futures.
Within their first year, new members of the staff are supported through a programme of weekly induction-training sessions, delivered on Monday afternoons from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.
During this first year, new staff also complete the School’s fully-funded and nationally-accredited Level 3 Award ‘Effective SEND Support’; a twelve-week, tutored and supported study course with opportunities for further progression.
The above training complements the School-wide, continuous programme of INSET training and preparation days and other ongoing training and development opportunities. The School is strongly committed to supporting teachers’ career development.
Professional membership fees are paid by the school.

Our School:
Nationally celebrated, More House School provides an exceptional, mainstream education for intelligent boys with Specific Learning Difficulties and weakness in their developmental language skills. Providing a transformative education repeatedly recognised as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted over more than a decade, we offer a specialised learning environment for day and boarding boys from Year 4 to Year 13. Our pupils are taught to recognise their strengths and develop their self-belief so that they achieve independence and extraordinary results at GCSE, BTEC and ‘A’ Level, above the national averages. A majority progress to university.
The School has an 85-year history of supporting boys with additional challenge in their educational experience. Now with 500 pupils, the School has grown significantly in recent years and has the largest number on roll ever. It is recognised as being the largest SEND-specialist provision in the United Kingdom and is heavily involved in outreach work. More than half of pupils have their places funded by their local authorities.
Delivering a mainstream independent-school experience, both academically and socially, the very broad curriculum affords all pupils the opportunity to discover their strengths, challenging them to fulfil their academic and extra-curricular potential. Pupils benefit from classroom teaching which recognises that each pupil is individual in his profile of skill strengths and weaknesses, and which focuses on adaptive strategies which look beyond pupils’ individual diagnoses and prioritises the support of the four core elements of language, attention, processing and working memory. All teachers are supported to develop their understanding and professional practice in this respect, both on arrival and throughout their employment, through high-quality, nationally-accredited training delivered in-house.
Class-sizes are small, with a maximum of 15 pupils, and almost all pupils receive timetabled support through the on-site Learning Development Centre which comprises Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and specialist Dyslexia-qualified Literacy and Numeracy Tutors.
Judged ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in its last five School inspections, our most recent inspection (March 2023) graded More House School ‘Outstanding’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ in each of the six sub-sections of the report. The School’s provision for residential boarders was most-recently inspected in November 2023 and likewise graded Outstanding in every respect. More House is CReSTeD approved, listed in their Specialist Schools category, and is an active member of the Independent Schools Association and the Boarding Schools’ Association.
The School is set on a wooded hillside in nearly thirty acres on the Hampshire/Surrey border and within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Attractive modern facilities lie above the playing fields. London Waterloo is one hour away by train from close-by Farnham railway station, and there is easy access to the M25, M3 and A3 major routes. Guildford is twenty minutes’ drive away, Basingstoke twenty-five, and Southampton an hour.
In recent years, the School has built its School of Engineering and CAD facilities, opened a new Humanities block and School Chapel, completed our brand-new library and Media Studies centre, and grown our learning support facilities. 2018 saw the expansion of the campus and the conversion of a large domestic building into our new Sixth Form centre, which was opened in January 2019, improving further the facilities for both teaching and independent study. In December 2022, we installed a new Strength and Conditioning fitness gym for students and employees.
Teaching and support staff join the School from a variety of backgrounds. Many employees have worked at More House for a number of years, but the School has supported numerous teachers through their initial teacher training, and more through their Early Career Training. Those already qualified may have previous experience in the state-maintained or independent sectors, and may have previous experience supporting learners with specific learning and language difficulties, or may not.
Adults with a genuine wish to develop their skills in making learning opportunities successful for neurodiverse learners thrive at More House School. The School provides a high level of support and training for all teaching and support staff, affording the development of confidence, skill and qualifications in helping pupils to overcome the potential barriers to achievement posed by their difficulties. The School also provides training for many other external professionals and other schools, and on behalf of the Independent Schools Association.
The School is characterised by a continuous pursuit of excellence and improvement in all aspects of its provision, in order to realise the best possible experiences and outcomes for all pupils. All our staff are united by a shared commitment to the School’s vision and mission, and by our values of Kindness, Spirit and Responsibility.

About the department:
The role will be based in the Learning Development Centre (LDC) which houses a very large supportive team of Literacy tutors, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and a Numeracy tutor. The department has a growing national reputation and strong links with universities, regularly providing educational placements for Speech and Language Therapy students from the University of Reading. We actively encourage multidisciplinary working and communication between teachers and LDC Staff. More House is an inclusive environment and LDC Staff frequently have opportunities to attend school trips, enabling them to gain a holistic picture of the students and to get to know them better.
A superb induction and training programme, which includes an hour after school every Monday within the first year of employment, supports new employees to develop their understanding of our students’ special educational needs, effective strategies to support their learning in the classroom and beyond, and school operations. Other online and in-person training opportunities abound, including during the designated staff-training days distributed throughout the year.

Relationships:
• The post-holder is responsible to the Headmaster in all matters, is supported by the Lead Literacy Tutor and reports to the Head of the Learning Development Centre.
• The successful applicant must also interact effectively on a professional level with colleagues, and seek to establish and maintain productive relationships with all.

Hours:
The working day is 8.20 am until 4.20 pm during term-time. During the first year of employment, attendance at the new-staff induction programme, delivered on Monday afternoons during term-time, from 4.30pm to 5.30pm is required.
Hours in school are primarily term-time only.
There is no Saturday provision other than for the very few full-boarders, and there is no requirement for teaching or department technician staff to attend School during the weekend, other than once a year, for Founder’s Day. School open days typically take place during the normal working week; not at weekends.
(Note: academic terms are typically shorter than those in the state-maintained sector, and School holidays are therefore significantly longer).
Attendance at school events outside these hours from time to time, as well as a few staff-training (INSET) days towards the beginning or end of school holidays.

Remuneration and support:
• Annual salary, paid in monthly instalments: extremely competitive in accordance with qualifications, experience and recognised skills;
• Pension, Defined contribution scheme pension
• Sick-pay;
• Employee Assistance Programme;
• Cycle to Work Scheme;
• Parking – free on-campus parking within the School’s beautiful grounds;
• Meals – excellent meals whilst working, at no cost in the School’s refectory;
• Fitness gym – free use of the School’s fitness gym facilities;
• Comprehensive induction programme offered, and ongoing professional development supported through INSET days and training opportunities.

Safeguarding:
This role is deemed to be one of working in regulated activity, meaning that the post-holder may expect to come into unsupervised contact with children and young people frequently in the discharge of their duties on-campus. As such, the expectations of conduct, required of all adults working at More House School, apply to this position, as does a full Safer-Recruitment vetting process of any appointee. A key responsibility of all adults working within the School is that of ensuring the effective safeguarding of all children and young people, through adherence to the School’s policies; full training is given.

Diversity statement:
More House School is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences – including people with disabilities and ethnic minority candidates. Our aim is that our employees will be representative of all sections of society and each person feels respected and able to give of their best.

To Apply:
Please visit our website www.morehouseschool.co.uk, and complete the online application form.
Closing date for applications: Friday 30th January 2026
Interviews expected to be held on: W/C Monday 9th February 2026
Interested candidates are welcome to make an appointment to visit the school for an informal visit.
The School reserves the right to interview appropriate candidates in advance of the above-named dates, and to appoint. Interested candidates are therefore strongly urged to submit their application as soon as possible.
This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS clearance and the receipt of satisfactory references before a formal job offer is confirmed.
More House School is firmly committed to safeguarding and