Head of Year

**Salary**:
MPS / UPS plus TLR 2A

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

23 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Preferred Subjects for this role can be English/Maths/Science/Spanish/Performing Arts/DT or Food**

**Why choose Dixons Newall Green?**

Dixons Newall Green Academy will be a newly established secondary free school located in the Wythenshawe district of Manchester, England. The school will open its doors to Year 7 students in September 2023, and will grow year by year until it serves students aged 11 to 16 by 2027. The school's existing site, which was previously Newall Green High School, will undergo extensive renovation to ensure a modern and conducive learning environment for students.

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a culture of success from the ground up, through the implementation of strict and fair protocols, a relentless focus on results, and the provision of exceptional teaching and support.

As a member of the Dixons Newall Green community, you will have access to the following:

- The incorporation of the best practices from succesful academies within the Dixons Academies Trust, as well as those from other schools, both domestically and nationally
- A values-driven approach to education, with a clear vision and a focus on results, strict routines, and strong relationships at all levels
- Weekly coaching opportunities to support professional growth
- A focus on staff wellbeing and organisational health
- The opportunity to shape and cultivate the school's culture from its inception

**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 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

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.

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 26 March 2025.

Please visit

or call us on 0161 383 1160 and speak to Elizabeth O'Hara, Academy Admin Manager, to discuss the role further.

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.

**About**Dixons Academies Trust**:
**Dixons Academies Trust**
- Ripley Street, Bradford
- West Yorkshire
- BD5 7RR
- United Kingdom

+44 1274 776777

At Dixons, we are committed to making a difference where it matters most. We work to improve the future for thousands of children in the parts of the north of England where young lives are adversely affected by social and educational disadvantage.

We believe that every child, regardless of their background, should be able to fulfil their academic potential and go on to thrive amongst the demands and expectations of 21st century life.

We are ambitious for every child we teach and want to see a society that benefits from the contributions of our well-educated and empowered young people who come through our network of high-performing non-faith academies. We make a difference to young lives by being that difference and defying the disadvantage we see.

Founded by Dixons City Academy, the former City Technology College, our Trust has almost thirty years’ experience of running our own affairs. Although our original sponsor, Lord Kalms of the then Dixons Stores Group, still takes a keen interest in us, we are now self-sponsoring and independent. We remain true to our original aims, however, and our ambition remains the same: to transform education in our region.

Our family of schools includes primary, secondary all-through and sixth form. We focus exclusively on sponsored turnaroun