Social Media Content Creator Apprentice

MCCARTHY RECRUITMENT LIMITED

UK (WA2 0YL)

Closes in 28 days (Sunday 5 July 2026)

Posted on 5 June 2026

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Summary

Imagine diving into a role where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to showcase your skills, and where you can truly make the role your own. As our Social Media Content Creator Apprentice, you’ll be the driving force behind our online presence, shaping our brand image and engaging with our audience.

Wage

£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Training course
Multi-channel marketer (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday (Times to be confirmed).

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Duration

1 year 4 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

  • Plan and execute effective social media campaigns and strategies for McCarthy Recruitment
  • Respond to incoming communication on all social media platforms
  • Collaborate with the senior leadership and sales teams on content ideas
  • Create on-brand graphics and videos for all social media channels
  • Use social media analytics tools to analyse market trends and monitor the success of campaigns and help influence future campaigns
  • Manage and grow our social media presence, interact with followers and stay ahead of industry trends
  • Write regular blogs for the company website and social media
  • Assist in keeping the content of the McCarthy Recruitment and Flexible Meetings website up to date
  • Help plan, create, and execute effective email marketing campaigns to keep our clients and candidates engaged and drive revenue for the business
  • Production of marketing materials for internal and external use
  • Assist in the creation of internal communication graphics

Where you'll work

Olympic Park 12A Olympic Way
Birchwood
Greater Manchester
UK
WA2 0YL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

NOWSKILLS LIMITED

Training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
  • Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
  • Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
  • Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
  • Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
  • Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
  • Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
  • Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
  • Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
  • Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
  • Use a content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
  • Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
  • Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
  • Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
  • Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
  • Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
  • Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
  • Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.
  • Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
  • Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
  • Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
  • Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
  • Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
  • Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
  • Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
  • Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
  • Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
  • Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
  • Use a content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
  • Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
  • Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
  • Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
  • Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
  • Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
  • Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
  • Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative

About this employer

Passionate about delivering talent solutions McCarthy is an award-winning, industry-leading recruitment business delivering talent solutions across the UK. We partner with clients to find the best talent and we enable our candidates to enhance their careers.

https://mccarthyrecruitment.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

The successful candidate may be chosen to have a full-time role after completing their apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NOWSKILLS LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000035552.

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Closes in 28 days (Sunday 5 July 2026)

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