Overview
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please refer to job description and person specification
What the school offers its staff
Why choose Dixons Music 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
* Commitment to continuous professional development through Dixons Teaching Institute
* Schemes of work fully resourced and ready
Our expectations for the right candidate
The right candidate will be totally aligned to our values of hard work, independence and enjoyment and completely committed to our mission: the academy will ensure that all students succeed at university (or real alternative), thrive in a top job and have a great life.
About 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.
Application and selection
Learn more
Full details of this role can be found in the job description and person specification.
Interviews will take place on 13 October 2025.
Please visit our website or call us on 01274 089870 and speak to Helen Kindon, Academy Administration Manager, to discuss the role further.
Equality, diversity and safeguarding
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
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.
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