Teacher of RE
Dixons Fazakerley Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L10 1LB5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Religious education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Why choose Dixons Fazakerley 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; supporting teachers so all students can learn
- Focus on feedback and professional growth
- Opportunities across our trust
The right candidate will be totally aligned to our values of determination, integrity and respect and completely committed to our mission: to get students to and through university or a real alternative so that they can thrive in a top rewarding career and have a purposeful and happy 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 10 June 2025.
Please visit www.dixonsfa.com or call us on 0151 3326790 and speak to Paula Elder, 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.
Flexible working opportunities
At Dixons, we offer a nine-day fortnight for all teachers across our trust to support greater work life harmony.
We want teachers to be afforded the same flexibility that’s available in many other sectors and now even expected in the post pandemic world. Given the nature of teaching, we know that the scale of this flexibility will not always match what others offer outside the sector, but by offering a nine-day fortnight to our teachers, we hope this will make a difference.
Although the introduction of a nine-day fortnight is an innovative step forward, we have been focusing on flexibility and workload for a while. Here are some of the things we have been doing for a long time.
- Whole class feedback: We are attentive to student outcomes, and as a result, we provide feedback that is often deliverable (live or through reflection) from the whole class or as part of adaptions to planning or to the curricular map.
- Behaviour management: We have a highly consistent behaviour management approach across our trust that builds supportive mechanisms around children and adults.
- Cross cutting teams: We have a central curriculum and we collaborate across schools and departments to ensure we share resources and stop duplication and unnecessary work at all levels.
- Limiting our meetings: We always limit the amount of meetings that our staff are in. We don’t want to waste any of their time and we expect them to tell us and feed back if they feel they could save time elsewhere.
In line with our deep commitment to self-determination, we want to give our teachers more agency over their roles by finding ways to give them more time back.
- Nine-day fortnight: the nine-day fortnight does not impact student contact time.
- Remote working: We offer remote working during non-contact time, which includes giving more PPA and making it manageable from home or another remote location, and where our teachers want to do this, compressing the free hours or non-contact hours so that they can be away from school for longer periods of time.
- Personal days: We offer personal days during term time so our teachers are not restricted to only take time off in the school holidays.
- Artificial intelligence: We are looking at technology, where possible, to reduce teachers’ contact time and provide greater flexibility. We want to harness technology more widely to free up more time and allow our best teachers to influence more students than just those physically present in their classrooms.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Dixons Fazakerley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 858 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Dixons Fazakerley Academy website
- Email address
- info@dixonsfa.com
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