Graphic & Website Designer (Maternity Cover)

We're looking for a Graphic & Website Designer to join us on a maternity cover contract. You'll work closely with colleagues and school clients to design website layouts and visual styles that feel welcoming, clear, and consistent.

This is an office-based role to support collaboration, but for the right person we can be flexible about hours, including part-time or school-hours working.

What you'll be doing

• Designing website layouts and visual styles for schools and trusts
• Creating and adapting digital branding for web use
• Building homepage layouts, page templates, and visual components
• Working closely with developers to bring designs into live websites
• Talking through design ideas with school clients clearly and confidently
• Responding to feedback and refining designs accurately
• Supporting consistency across multi-school projects

Do you have experience in Teaching?, * Confidence designing for web

• Comfortable speaking with clients and explaining design ideas
• Happy working as part of a close team
• Able to manage multiple projects at different stages
• Good attention to detail and pride in your work
• Open to feedback and iteration

Experience in education or public sector work is helpful but not required.

Tools

Essential:

• Figma
• Canva

Helpful:

• Experience with AI-assisted design tools
• Basic awareness of accessibility and usability for websites

Pulled from the full job description

• Free parking
• Additional leave
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking, * Salary up to £25,000 pro rata
• Flexible hours for the right person
• Office-based role
• 20 days holiday plus Christmas closure
• Private healthcare
• Mac and equipment provided
• Supportive onboarding and handover
• Friendly team environment, * Additional leave
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance

Application question(s):

• This is a maternity cover role with a salary of up to £25,000 pro rata. Are you happy with a fixed-term contract at this salary level?
• Which working pattern are you looking for?

Full-time Part-time School hours Flexible (to be discussed)

• Which tools do you currently use regularly in your design work?
• Please briefly describe your experience designing for websites (not just print).
• Are you comfortable speaking directly with clients and explaining your design ideas and decisions?
• Have you worked as part of a delivery team (designers, developers, content or project teams) before?
• Please share a link to your portfolio or examples of relevant work.
• This role is based at our office in Lytham St Annes, which is in a semi-rural location. Are you able to travel to the office reliably (a car is essential)?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Schudio is a specialist digital agency working exclusively with schools and Multi-Academy Trusts across the UK. We've been supporting schools since 2011 with websites that are clear, compliant, accessible, and easy to manage. We're a small, experienced team known for being supportive, reliable, and straightforward to work with. This role covers maternity leave within our website delivery team.