Assistant Vice Principal - Culture

Dixons McMillan Academy, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD5 0JD

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  15 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: DAT Leadersip, L9-L13 (Actual Salary - £63,070.00 - £69,596.00)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Please see the job advert.

What the school offers its staff

Why choose Dixons McMillan Academy?

• We believe that people, more than strategy, create value - we all belong and grow together
• '9 in 10' for teachers: our innovative strategy providing greater flexibility and agency
• Culture of high expectations; teachers can teach and students can learn
• Highly effective and tailored CPD: 100% of teachers believe they are a better teacher since starting with us
• A real focus on healthy and efficient systems: schemes of work fully resourced and ready

The right candidate will be totally aligned to our values of resilience, integrity and courtesyand completely committed to our mission: we are determined to provide our students and our families with the very best education possible so that they leave the academy as highly employable individuals and fully ready to lead happy and successful lives.

Why choose Dixons Academies Trust?

Our mission is to challenge educational and social disadvantage in the North. As a school trust, we are committed to making a difference where it matters most through delivering exceptional education in our schools in Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester, which include primaries, secondaries, all-throughs and a standalone sixth form.

• We are values driven: we work hard on the things that matter, with humility; we are good and kind; we are motivated by mastery, autonomy and purpose.
• We have been challenging educational and social disadvantage for over 30 years.
• We have launched a bold flexible working policy to give our teachers more time back.
• We are ambitious for every child and highly inclusive.
• We have an innovative approach to central operations which allows educators to focus on teaching and learning.
• We prioritise the professional development and growth of all our staff; every member of Team Dixons receives regular coaching.
• We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and our staff work collaboratively to share resources and reduce workload.
• We offer hybrid working arrangements and free on-site parking.
• We have a wealth of benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (private health, lifestyle benefits and discounts).

Within our communities, we work together to establish joyful, rigorous, high performing schools which maximise attainment, value diversity, develop character and build cultural capital. By the age of 18, we want every students to have the choice of university or a high-quality apprenticeship.

Visit our OpenSource Youtube channel to learn more about our approaches and culture.

Learn more

Full details of this role can be found in the job description and person specification.

Interviews will take place on 17 October 2025.

As this is a leadership role, to be a part of the Senior Leadership Team at Dixons McMillan, we would strongly encourage that allcandidates visit the school or speak to the Principal before applying.

Please contact Kat Lang, Principal, directly to organise this: klang@dixonsma.com.

Please visit our careers site at joindixonsat.com for more information about our trust, our roles and our benefits or call us on 01274 089880 and speak to Kat Ratcliffe, Academy Administration Manager, to discuss the role further.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, recruiting a diverse workforce, and creating an inclusive environment for everyone at Dixons. Therefore, we encourage applications from underrepresented communities and irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergent status, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible through the recruitment process should this be required.

We are focussed on delivering an ambitious equality, diversity and inclusion strategy. You can read more about this here.

Our trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Dixons McMillan Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 674 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dixons McMillan Academy website
• Email address: triaz@dixonsat.com
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dixons-mcmillan-academy

At Dixons McMillan, staff and students live by our three core values every day. By resilience we mean that we work really, really hard and we never give up. We have a can-do attitude, and when we find things difficult we work together (as a team) to find a solution. When we refer to integrity, we mean that we are good people. We do the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do. We make decisions for the good of everyone. We are honest and have strong moral principles. And finally, when we talk about courtesy, we pride ourselves in welcoming anyone warmly to our school community – be it a visitor, a new student, or a staff member. We always have good manners and we are kind, thoughtful and polite.

Through demonstrating these three core values consistently, we ensure that students can learn and staff can teach – and ultimately, our focus on success is relentless.

Arranging a visit to Dixons McMillan Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email triaz@dixonsat.com.

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