Those huge small victories

As a Events and Marketing Officer you’ll be part of a team dedicated to helping parents of children and young people with special educational needs to overcome challenges that most of us never have to face. We’re a growing organisation and our Events Team will be responsible for raising awareness of our services in new and existing locations.

For children with complex needs the level of care and education we provide must go above and beyond. That’s what drives us here at Witherslack Group. With our high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams, we’re proud to have won a reputation for excellence and market leading OFSTED ratings. Our Events and Marketing Team aims to reach and impact more people than ever before with what we can offer young people.

Get out what you put in

Your role will play in a big part in how we change lives for our young people, this will be achieved through a variety of components in your role. You will organise and promote internal and external webinars, events and podcasts. Supporting activity to empower stakeholders and key audiences, whilst capturing quality data for future marketing activity will also be part of your day to day. Your experience and knowledge of marketing will enable you to generate parental and professional interest in our schools and promote the work of Witherslack Group.

What we do for you

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the care sector. With us, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

• Salary: Base salary of £25,000
• Ongoing professional development.
• Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with 7 weeks’ holiday
• Flexible benefits package: meaning you can increase/decrease your holiday allowance, pension and life insurance – check out our benefits here
• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our homes here
• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £2,000 bonus every time

Bring your whole-self to work

Here at Witherslack Group, we celebrate everyone’s differences as that’s what makes us the best at what we do. Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. We’ll give you the chance to build an exciting career in a fast-growing organisation, where you’re free to achieve your potential. Here’s what we need from you;

• Minimum 1 year experience in an events and/or marketing role
• Ability to liaise with directors, senior leaders in schools and homes; group office staff, parents, support groups, SEN organisations and influencers.
• Proven track record of relationship building with external organisations
• Experience co-ordinating and developing events, webinars and podcasts preferable

• Ability to use data to segment and maximise the CRM system and marketing opportunities

Join the UK’s best special education and care provider

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself .

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost). We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document.