Administrative Assistant (with Marketing)

The Westleigh School, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 5NL

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  10 November 2026

• Closing date

  24 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: Grade 6, SCP 20 - 24, £28,153 - £31,015 - FTE

Administrative Assistant (with Marketing) job summary

Are you creative, digitally confident and passionate about marketing and communications?

We are seeking a highly organised, proactive and enthusiastic Administration Assistant with a strong marketing focus to join our school team.

This is an exciting and varied role for someone who is confident using digital platforms, has a flair for creating engaging content and understands how to use social media effectively to promote an organisation. We are looking for someone who is genuinely marketing savvy, keeps up to date with the latest social media trends and knows how to create content that captures attention and engages an audience.

You will play a key role in promoting the school, developing its online presence and ensuring our communications reflect the school's identity, values and achievements.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing and developing the school's social media presence, creating engaging, creative and relevant content across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and other appropriate channels.
• Keeping up to date with current social media trends, digital marketing techniques and new ways to increase engagement and reach.
• Updating and maintaining the school's website, including managing the back-end content management system to ensure information is accurate, current and engaging.
• Creating high-quality promotional materials, graphics, newsletters and digital content to showcase school life, events, achievements and successes.
• Producing and coordinating the school's magazine, bringing together articles, photographs, features and news to create an engaging publication.
• Supporting the development and delivery of the school's marketing and communications activities.
• Capturing and promoting the positive work taking place across the school, celebrating the achievements of pupils, staff and the wider school community.
• Providing general administrative support to the main school office, including responding to enquiries, maintaining records and supporting the smooth day-to-day running of the office.

The successful candidate will:

• Have excellent digital and ICT skills, with a strong understanding of social media platforms and how to use them effectively for marketing and promotion.
• Be genuinely marketing savvy, with a creative approach and an eye for what makes engaging content.
• Have experience creating and managing social media content, ideally within an organisation or business environment.
• Be confident updating websites and using back-end content management systems.
• Have excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce engaging articles, newsletters and promotional content.
• Have experience or a flair for designing publications, magazines and marketing materials.
• Be highly organised, proactive and able to manage competing priorities.
• Have excellent attention to detail and take pride in producing work to a high standard.
• • Be confident working independently, using their initiative and bringing fresh ideas to the role.
• • Be approachable, professional and enjoy working as part of a busy school team.

What we are looking for:- 

Above all, we are looking for someone who can bring our school to life through its marketing and communications. Someone who understands that social media and a school's online presence are more than simply posting updates – they are an opportunity to tell our story, celebrate our successes, engage with our community and showcase everything that makes our school special.

If you are creative, digitally confident, full of ideas and have the marketing skills to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you!

Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’. Whilst we are committed to ensuring that every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for their future. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring The Westleigh school is a safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Westleigh School is a great place to learn and a great place to work.

Uniting with The Shaw Education Trust brings with it new opportunities and a wealth of resources to supplement our mission to improve outcomes for all our students. Colleagues will have access to a large range of well-established training opportunities, such as a fully funded L5 Instructional Coaching qualification or Accelerated Leadership training, for those aspiring to Middle Leadership. Outstanding teachers will also achieve Trust Professional Advocate designation, which provides exciting opportunities to support colleagues within both The Westleigh School and across other SET schools to share best practice. With this brings the opportunity to engage in the cross-trust peer review and Trust CPD programme.

All candidates are required to provide a supporting statement on the formal application forms which states clearly your reasons for applying, skills and experience for this position.

At Shaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life. Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, or leading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.

Our values—opportunity, integrity, community, and equity—guide everything we do. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power of learning.” We bring this to life through our mission: working together to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voice matters, and every learner thrives.

We are a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools, proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the National Professional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered by Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. 

• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participating in peer reviews.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

Actual Salary: £26,666 - £29,376
Working hours: 37 hours per week, Term time only plus 20 inset days (Working 42 weeks)  

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Westleigh School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 976 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Westleigh School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-westleigh-school

The Westleigh School is a secondary school providing education to pupils aged 11 to 16, as well as providing an adult education centre to members of the local community.

The school motto of “Aspiring and Achieving Together” accurately captures the shared vision which ensures that leaders at all levels are developing their ability to communicate high expectations.

At The Westleigh School, an unrelenting focus is placed on the quality of teaching above all else so that the pupils are able to grow in a continuously developing learning environment.

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