Copywriting Apprenticeship

Overview

A little about us

We’re Bray Leino, an award-winning creative communications Agency in a surprisingly beautiful place, powered by the creativenergy of 140 diversely talented experts. Lots of the brands we work with are household names.

Our Creative Department is the heartbeat of the business. Now, we have a rare opportunity for an apprentice copywriter to become part of the team, learn the craft and add their creativenergy to ours.

The apprenticeship…

The course covers topics like Content Planning, Content Development, Content Creation and Evaluation and Industry Awareness, equipping you with a wide range of creative writing and editing skills,

You’ll spend 20% of your working week on the apprenticeship, and we’ll support you all the way. 2 days a week, we’ll need you to work in our offices in Filleigh.

What you’ll learn to do

Compelling, clear, enticing, persuasive, startling, emotive, stick-in-your-ear words are how we help our clients excite their customers about the things they sell, from pasta and cider to medicines and truck engines. The words our copywriters write inhabit all kinds of communications channels: sales presentations, websites, social media, TV ads...

As our copywriting apprentice, we’ll help you learn the particular skills of the copywriter while we draw out your natural writing flair and the creativenergy we’re sure that’s in you, bursting to get out.

Here’s what we’ll help you to be great at

• Using language to be persuasive and captivating


• Knowing the difference between competent writing and brilliant copywriting


• Knowing how to write for different audiences


• Working with Designers and Art Directors in a creative team to generate ideas and make words work in harmony with images.


• Wrestling with complicated technical content and making it simple, exciting and relevant


• Presenting your work to Clients and helping them to see its brilliance.

Here’s who were looking for

First and foremost, someone with a passion for writing, a fascination with words and a natural fussiness for the way things are expressed. Maybe you write for fun, stories, songs, posts, whatever.  You never stop wondering if that thing you just wrote could be written even better.

You’ll be happy working in a team and OK with deadlines and a bit of pressure sometimes.  And we hope you’re the sort of person who likes to talk about ads, with a natural curiosity for the world of advertising and marketing.  

The skills and experience you need

We’re not looking for specific skills, and our apprentice could come from education or from any working background. Some evidence of your writing chops and qualifications in English would be a good start. You’ll need to meet the entry standards for the apprenticeship qualification.

In return: an amazing career opportunity

Our creative department is buzzy and energetic. Talented copywriters are highly valued members of our creative team, Careerwise, the sky’s the limit.

We offer a competitive starting salary, a nice benefits package, and training from the best in the business.

• 25 days’ holiday, increasing to 29 after 2 years’ service + Plus Bank Holidays


• Company pension scheme, with enhanced Employer contributions after 1 years’ service


• Medical Cash Plan – including employee assist programme, contributions to dental, optical, physio etc.


• Employee Discount Scheme – an online platform for all staff offering a variety of discounts at various shopping outlets, gyms etc


• Electric Car Purchase Scheme, via Salary Sacrifice


• Outstanding training and progression, including access to LinkedIn Learning and The Mission Group Learning Management System


• Employee referral scheme


• Regular staff social events


• Company Christmas closure


• Long service awards


• Cycle To Work scheme


• Mission Share Scheme

Here at Bray Leino, we’re celebrators of difference. We know it’s where Creativenergy comes from. So our culture’s open, diverse and inclusive. Whether you’re coming for an interview or have been with us for years, what matters is your talent and character; the rest is what makes you, you.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed (Level 1) Employer. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to; ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to those with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job and anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.

The Bray Leino office is based in Filleigh, Devon. The company currently has a hybrid working policy in place with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. Office facilities are open 5 days a week.