17 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    5 November 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    17 October 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 Months - Maternity or parental leave cover

Full-time equivalent salary

Leadership - L11 - L15

What skills and experience we're looking for

Please see advert,

What the school offers its staff

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. The Dixons Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding service to our Academies.

Why choose Dixons Academies Trust?

  • 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 12 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 01274 085526 and speak to Angela Skinner, Business Support Administrator, HR, in order 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

      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

      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 will not be accepted for this application.

      View advert on school website (opens in new tab)

      About Dixons Academies Trust

      Type
      Multi-academy trust
      Email address
      triaz@dixonsat.com

      Arranging a visit to Dixons Academies Trust

      To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email triaz@dixonsat.com.

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