Academic and Wellbeing Lead (Sixth Form)
Iveshead School, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 9DB19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
24th August 2026
Closing date
5 May 2026 at 12:59am
Date listed
16 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £12,872.00 - £13,963.00 Annually (Actual) Pay award pending
Academic and Wellbeing Lead (Sixth Form) job summary
About the Role
We are looking for an excellent colleague to work as part of our Sixth Form team in supporting our fantastic Sixth Form students both academically and pastorally to excel and reach their full potential. Based in our brand new Sixth Form centre, the successful candidate will be experienced in working with young people in a school setting and understand the challenges of being a student in Year 12 and Year 13. Working with our Sixth Form team you will work closely with all students in our Sixth Form to support them academically and pastorally through two of the most challenging and demanding years of their education.
In this role, you will work with students and supervise them during their independent study periods; working as part of the Sixth Form team you will offer mentoring and coaching to our students, monitoring and tracking their academic progress and supporting them to fulfil their potential in each subject. You will be highly organised and an excellent communicator, skilled in working with students, staff and school families. In addition, you will support the wellbeing of students and offer pastoral care and support.
As part of our Sixth Form team, we will offer you excellent training and professional development in all areas of your responsibilities. This role is 0.6 FTE (19.5 hpw) and there is some flexibility in the working hours and days for the right candidate. If you are interested and would like to find out more, please get in touch to have a conversation about the role or arrange a time to come and visit.
This is a permanent opportunity starting August 2026.
Job Requirements
Experience of working with young people in a school setting, ideally Sixth Form students
Understanding of education in Key Stage 5 and the challenges of being a student in Year 12 and 13
Understanding and experience in supporting student wellbeing
Excellent communicator in working with students, staff, school families
About Iveshead School
Iveshead is an inclusive 11-19 school in the heart of the Shepshed community with our core values of ‘Respect, Succeed, Enrich’. We have high expectations of our students and are ambitious for each and every one of them. Our mission is clear - we want to ensure that all of our students have an excellent education and experience of school, giving them opportunity and choice beyond Year 11 and Year 13.
Our students are fantastic young people who work hard, enjoy learning and make every day different. We are incredibly lucky that we have a dedicated team of staff: our teachers are subject experts who love teaching their subject. We work together to ensure that we are removing barriers and helping students to flourish. We are a truly inclusive school and are rightly proud of our two specialist provisions.
We have an impressive Sixth Form where we retain students to study a wide range of A Level and vocational courses. Students are successful in gaining places at universities, securing places for competitive apprenticeships and employment opportunities beyond Year 13.
Our school campus is very well resourced; our Sixth Form students study in a brand new Sixth Form Centre which was opened at the beginning of this academic year. We offer a supportive and welcoming environment with respect for all, a dedicated staff and a strong blend of activities which create an enriching and successful education for all students at Iveshead.
About Mowbray Education Trust
As a leading, high performing education provider, the Mowbray Education Trust (MET) is a multi- academy trust currently educating around 2,500 pupils from the age of 2 to 16. Our schools are based in the town of Melton Mowbray and surrounding villages in the Borough of Melton and are easily commutable from Grantham, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, and Oakham.
As an organization, we are always looking to develop our staff to grow their career with us through mentoring and professional development opportunities. Our staff are driven by one main vision, to do our best for every single pupil so that they can develop to their full potential, to act courageously and with integrity in all that they do.
Mowbray Education Trust reserves the right to close adverts early if sufficient applications are received.
All roles are subject to full pre-employment safeguarding checks; including an Enhanced DBS with Barred List check - this includes a 6-month probationary period.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Iveshead School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure. The successful applicant will therefore be subject to an Enhanced DBS.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Iveshead School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1000 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Iveshead School website
Iveshead School is for students aged 11 to 19 years based in Shepshed on an extremely well resourced campus. We joined The Mowbray Education Trust in December 2022. Mowbray Education Trust is a family of schools with the shared belief that every child is deserving of
a first-class education, regardless of background or ability. Driven by this ethos, the Trust strives to deliver first-class teaching and learning with integrity. Students and teachers benefit from the Trust culture which promotes an aspirational, open and collaborative approach to learning, enabling each student and colleague to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We have built on the reputation and results we have achieved in recent years and continue to provide a caring place of learning for our students. Here they develop the skills and confidence they need to make their way through to the next stage of their lives whether that is higher education, an apprenticeship or employment. The School provides a calm and purposeful learning environment (Ofsted, 2022).
We currently have over 900 students on roll and are growing. We are a popular school in the local area and our 2023 intake is likely to be oversubscribed. Our Sixth Form provision is also growing and attracts students from the local area, not just those who have completed their GCSEs with us.
The character of our school can be defined by our three core values - ‘respect’, ‘enrich’, ‘succeed’. We offer a supportive and welcoming community environment with respect for all, a dedicated staff and a strong blend of activities, which create an enriching and successful education for all students at Iveshead.
We have two specialist units within our school offering dedicated provision for students with SEMH and Autism. Our latest Ofsted Inspection reported that students with specialist educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) enjoy being part of this inclusive school.
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