Trust Senior Vice Principal

Teaching Vacancies; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational institution in the North is seeking new staff to support its mission of challenging educational disadvantages. The role includes responsibilities for providing high-quality education, fostering professional growth, and ensuring effective safeguarding practices. Candidates should be committed to inclusivity and the development of all students. Hybrid working arrangements and various staff benefits are offered.

Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements

Free on-site parking

Salary sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• Commitment to challenge educational and social disadvantage.
• Experience in delivering exceptional education.
• Ability to work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality education to diverse student populations.
• Support professional development of staff.
• Ensure effective safeguarding practices.

Job description

Overview

What skills and experience we're looking for. 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. The Dixons Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding service to our Academies.

What the school offers its staff

• 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 5 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
• Hybrid working arrangements and free on-site parking
• Salary sacrifice schemes (Car leasing, lifestyle benefits and discounts)

We establish high-performing non-faith academies which maximise attainment, value diversity, develop character and build cultural capital. By the age of 18, we want every student to have the choice of university or a high-quality apprenticeship.

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Learn more

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

Interview date 16/17 October 2025

Please visit www.dixonsat.com 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.

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.