Head of Year

Dixons Trinity Academy, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD5 0BE

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  3 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  9 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year or phase
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

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What skills and experience we're looking for

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

Interviews will take place on 09 October 2025.

January or April start date.

Please visit our website 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.

What the school offers its staff

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.

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.

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 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
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dixons-trinity-academy

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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