Cavendish
Digital Designer & WordPress Developer | Creative
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Digital Designer & WordPress Developer
Southampton
Permanent.
Full time 37.5 hours.
What we’re all about:
Cavendish is all about talented people, delivering excellent results for our clients. We are a multi-award-winning, PR Week Top 150 communications consultancy, ranked No 1 in PR Week’s UK Public Affairs consultancy rankings and recognised at PRCA National Awards 2025 as Large Consultancy of the Year.
Across our 12 strategically located UK and Ireland offices, Cavendish brings together industry-specialist communications to provide integrated solutions for clients and limitless development opportunities for our people.
We believe in sourcing talent from diverse backgrounds, nurturing a company culture that leads to a strong work life balance, and strengthening it by providing great learning and development opportunities.
What you will get from us:
- You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to the next level, working with dynamic, talented people in a fast paced and expanding organisation.
- Alongside a competitive salary, we provide extensive training and development opportunities and an industry leading benefits package including:
- A flexible, hybrid working model
- Access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry
- Industry leading allocation of paid time off
- Geographical flexibility across our regional offices
- Private Medical Insurance
- Regular social and teambuilding events
- Paid time off to volunteer for a charity
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What we are looking for:
- Proven experience designing and developing WordPress websites.
- Strong understanding of HTML, CSS and working knowledge of PHP.
- Experience building custom themes and using page builders.
- Solid understanding of responsive design, web performance and accessibility fundamentals.
- Experience collaborating within multi-disciplinary teams.
- The ability to work across multiple projects and priorities.
- Experience using AI to support workflow efficiency, layout exploration and code refinement.
- Understanding of the limitations, security and quality considerations when using AI-assisted outputs.
What you’ll need to do:
- In this role you’ll design, build and maintain high quality WordPress websites that balance strong visual design with solid technical execution. This role operates confidently between design and development, translating briefs into well crafted, scalable digital experiences.
- Design and build WordPress websites from concept through to deployment.
- Translate wireframes, designs and content into responsive, accessible web pages.
- Develop and customise WordPress themes using best-practice HTML, CSS and PHP.
- Implement and configure plugins to meet functional requirements without over-engineering.
- Ensure websites are responsive, performant and accessible across devices and browsers.
- Maintain and update existing WordPress sites, resolving bugs and issues efficiently.
- Collaborate with designers, content creators, SEO and account teams.
- Use AI tools to support layout, component development, code optimisation and testing where appropriate.
- Manage multiple web tasks and deadlines concurrently.
- Maintain clean, well-structured code and documentation.
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Equal Opportunities:
Our vision is to be a truly diverse and inclusive workplace that enables us to attract and retain a diverse workforce, representative of our clients and community. For this reason, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of qualifications and experience in industry and from all persons, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
Everyone stands to benefit when we embrace and value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and ways of working that people from different backgrounds, experiences and identities bring to an organisation.
We are a disability confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application and interview stages, please email peopleteam@cavendishconsulting.com.
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