Primary Assistant Vice Principal
Dixons Trinity Chapeltown, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7 4AWThis job expired on 19 November 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
19 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 November 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
- Leadership pay scale, L6 - L10 (Actual salary £58,569 - £64,691)
What skills and experience we're looking for
What the school offers its staff
We are thrilled to be expanding our leadership team and are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Assistant Vice Principal. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward-thinking, inclusive school committed to delivering high-quality education and memorable learning experiences for every child.
As part of our growing leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining continuity of learning, supporting pupils with a range of needs, and contributing to our positive, inclusive school culture. Your specific area of responsibility will be shaped around your strengths and experience,with opportunities to lead on curriculum development, pastoral care, inclusion, or teaching and learning.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Is confident teaching across KS1 or KS2 and passionate about primary education
- Can build strong, trusting relationships with pupils, staff, and families
- Is flexible, reliable, and committed to high standards
- Brings energy, creativity, and a calm, solution-focused presence to the classroom
- Champions diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of school life
- Is ready to take the next step in leadership and contribute to whole-school improvement
If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and grow as a leader, we’d love to hear from you.
Why choose Dixons Trinity Chapeltown?
- 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.
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 28 November 2025.
Please visit our careers site at joindixonsat.com for more information about our trust, our roles and our benefits or call us on 0113 512 5510 and speak to Joe Manuel, 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
Commitment to safeguarding
The Dixons Academies Trust takes seriously its ‘duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of students at the school’ (Children Act
1989 and Education Act 2004). The welfare of the child is paramount and we adhere to all aspects of Keeping Children Safe in Education
(September 2022) and Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018). Nothing is more important than children’s welfare and we will
always work in the best interests of the child. All children must have equal rights to protection.
About Dixons Trinity Chapeltown
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 977 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Dixons Trinity Chapeltown website
- Email address
- amcbride@dixonsat.com
Dixons Trinity Chapeltown opened in September 2017 and will grow to its full capacity of 980 students (Reception to Year 11) by 2023. Opened in 2017, Dixons Trinity Chapeltown is an all-through school with a curriculum and approach designed specifically to serve the community of Chapeltown and Harehills in Leeds. In November 2021, we were judged Outstanding by Ofsted under the new inspection framework. Inspectors felt that this is “a school with excellence at the core of everything that takes place” and “the school is an exceptionally calm and orderly place to learn.” The chance to join Dixons Trinity Chapeltown provides an exciting and unique opportunity to work with a talented team in continuing to build an exceptional school from its foundation.
Our Mission:
“The academy ensured that all students succeeded at university, thrived in a top job and had a great life.”
In order to achieve our mission, we focus on three key drivers: Mastery, which is the drive to get better at things that matter; Autonomy, or the drive to direct our own lives; and Purpose, which is the drive to connect to a cause larger than ourselves.
Our practice is thoroughly rooted in this approach and in the following three core values:
1. Hard Work
We never give up. We remain positive so that we have the strength to persevere with even the hardest work. We do what it takes for as long as it takes.
2. Trust
We are honest. We do what we say we’ll do and do not make excuses. We are loyal and have the courage to do the right thing.
3. Fairness
We play by the rules. We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times. We don’t take advantage of others and helping a member of our team is helping ourselves.
At Trinity Chapeltown, we will create an impressive culture of success through the operation of strict routines and protocols, an unwavering focus on results, and by offering the very best teaching and support. Students will learn, behave and be well mannered. Teachers will teach with skill and rigour showing great courtesy. Staff and students will enjoy what they do together.
In our achievement-oriented culture, it will be cool to be smart, and all students will work hard to climb the mountain to university or a real alternative.
Learn more about Dixons Academies Trust and our approach to culture on the Dixons OpenSource YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/dixonsopensource
Arranging a visit to Dixons Trinity Chapeltown
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email amcbride@dixonsat.com.
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