Queen Elizabeth School
Cumbria
£31,537 - £33,699 per year
Salary:
NJC Scale 6 – SCP 18 – 22, pro-rata salary (based on FTE £27,534 - £29,422pa, approx.)
Job type:
Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
03 November 2025
Apply by:
8 October 2025
Job overview
Lunesdale Learning Trust are looking to appoint for a new role of Academic Mentor to provide academic support and guidance to a range of students and those engaged with them, by removing barriers to learning in order to promote effective participation, enhance individual learning, raise aspirations and achieve their full potential.
This post will require someone who can identify those students who are underachieving and determine and devise a caseload to formulate individual development plans; incorporating appropriate interventions and support measures to overcome barriers to learning.
The Academic Mentor will work closely with students, their families and carers and with our school staff and/or external agencies to ensure those students are fulfilling their potential and academic making progress.
Experience of developing and delivering individual educations programmes and managing a caseload would be beneficial to this role.
Lunesdale Learning Trust encompasses Queen Elizabeth School and Queen Elizabeth Studio School. We have served our communities with great "Scholarship and Care" since 1591 and are blessed to be in a wonderful and beautiful part of the world. We are immensely proud of our commitment to the highest quality teaching and learning coupled with extraordinary pastoral care. We are a truly comprehensive community in which every child is cared for, supported and stretched, moving on to diverse destinations, from local apprenticeships and college courses to highly selective universities.
Building on our long successful history, we launched our sister school in September 2017 creating a small multi-academy trust of our 2 schools, the Lunesdale Learning Trust.
Applications are welcomed from well-qualified and highly motivated individuals who are keen to work with remarkable young people providing an exceptional education for all.
If you wish to apply, please complete all sections of the application by 12 noon on Wednesday 8th October 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place in week commencing 13th October 2025.
Please note although advertised as a salary scale, it is normal that the successful applicant would commence on NJC 18 with annual progression.
In your supporting statement we would like you to include:
* a statement as to why this particular job appeals to you.
* an outline of your relevant experience
* a discussion of the personal and professional qualities which you believe suit you for this post
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About Queen Elizabeth School
Queen Elizabeth School
Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth
Lancashire
LA6 2HJ
United Kingdom
About Queen Elizabeth School
Queen Elizabeth School (QES), Kirkby Lonsdale, is an 11-18 co-ed, non-denominational, all ability school with a sister school, QEStudio, with its own building. We serve a large, prosperous and beautiful area of South Lakeland, North Yorkshire and North Lancashire. Although a rural school, we are only 6 miles from the M6 and well connected to main line train stations, which helps explain the outward-looking vibrancy of Kirkby Lonsdale.
Queen Elizabeth School dates back to 1591 when we were granted our charter to provide 'Scholarship and Care', a promise we continue to deliver well into the 21st century.
In September 2017 QES developed as the Lunesdale Learning Trust to incorporate a new Free School, the QEStudio providing high quality professional, technical and vocational learning to over year-olds. This is an innovative and exciting aspect of our provision in Key Stage 4 and 5 it is proving to be extremely popular with pupils and parents.
Executive Headteacher
Cathy O'Neill
Values and vision
Most significantly the Trust is founded on core values which underpin and inform the life of the schools and promote our sense of community. These include the focus on encouraging global citizenship, remembering that life is about more than material things, looking out for others, and thinking of others who are less fortunate.
Ofsted report
"This outstanding school fully lives up to its ancient motto of 'Scholarship and Care'. The excellence that the school achieves results from the equal emphasis given to each of these aspects of its work. Parents and students are overwhelming in their praise of the school and many count themselves fortunate to be a part of it. Pressure for places is high because of the school's excellent reputation in the locality and further afield."
View Queen Elizabeth School's latest Ofsted report
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