9 days remaining to apply

  • 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.

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

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About Dixons Trinity Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
667 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
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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