Head of Geography
Dixons Trinity Academy, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD5 0BEThis job expired on 11 July 2025
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR2
What skills and experience we're looking for
Why choose Dixons Trinity 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
- Focus on feedback NOT marking
- No off-the-shelf strategies;weekly coaching
- Schemes of work fully resourced and ready
The right candidate will be totally aligned to our values of hard work, trust and fairness and completely committed to our mission: the academy will ensure that all students succeed at university (or a real alternative), thrive in a top job and have a great life.
What the school offers its staff
Dixons Academies Trust
Our mission is to challenge educational and social disadvantage in the North. As a school trust of 17 schools, 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: our values of work hard, be nice, be good underpin everything we do
- We have been challenging educational and social disadvantage for over 30 years
- We are launching a bold flexible working policy to give our teachers more time back
- We are ambitious for every child and highly inclusive
- We are always in the top five nationally for progress at secondary
- 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
Within our communities, we work together to establish joyful, rigorous, high performing schools and colleges, which maximise attainment, value diversity, develop culture and build cultural capital.
Visit our OpenSource platform 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 15 July 2025.
Please visit www.dixonsta.com or call us on 01274 089860 and speak to Helen Kindon, 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 focused on delivering an ambitious equality, diversity and inclusion strategy as part of our 2-5 year plan. 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
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.
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About Dixons Trinity Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 678 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Dixons Trinity Academy website
- Email address
- info@dixonsta.com
We promise to do whatever it takes to ensure that every student at Dixons Trinity achieves their full potential. We have extremely high expectations, and just as there are no shortcuts, there are no excuses. At Trinity, we all have a sentence that states the lasting impression we want to leave on the world. Our academy sentence is: “The academy ensured that all students succeeded at university, or a real alternative, thrived in a top job and had a great life.”
At Trinity, we enjoy what we do together because we remain positive and never give up; we are loyal and reliable; we are open-minded and treat all people fairly.
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