Senior Speech & Language Therapist
Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN31 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
14 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20.44 - £24.61 Hourly Salary equivalent to NHS Band 6
Senior Speech & Language Therapist job summary
(Salary equivalent to NHS Band 6)
We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic Speech and Language therapist to join our specialist school therapy team supporting children and young people with complex communication needs. You will deliver high quality speech and language therapy to students within an educational setting embedding strategies into daily routines. Working within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) you will help remove communication barriers and support students’ engagement, learning and wellbeing. The role is advertised as 30 hours per week, term time only although we are flexible on working hours and days.
Key Responsibilities:
This role offers the opportunity to deliver high quality, evidence-based therapy providing assessment, targeted intervention and support to students with a range of complex needs, working with a multidisciplinary therapy team across education and residential settings.
The role will manage a defined case load, contribute to EHCP processes and support staff in embedding communication strategies into daily practice.
About You:
You will be a HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist with significant post qualification experience and have experience supporting children or young people with complex communication needs. You will have strong assessment, intervention and clinical reasoning skills, be confident working collaboratively and be willing to undertake dysphagia training if required. Experience working in an educational setting would be advantageous but is not essential.
Why Join Us:
- Work-life balance including school holidays off, no evenings, weekends or on-call working
- Generous pension scheme & life cover
- Staff well-being sessions and support
- Retail discounts and subsidised meals
- Free on-site parking and refreshments
- Access to supervision and continuing professional development
- A supportive and experienced MDT with strong clinical leadership
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced speech and language professional looking to develop their career within a supportive and collaborative therapy team and school environment.
We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted, therefore we strongly recommend applying early. Please be aware that the advert may close before the specified date depending on the number of applications received.
Valence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of every student and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We value diversity and promote equality for all. For shortlisted candidates references will be taken up before interview and online checks undertaken. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check (this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act)
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Valence School
- School type
- Special schools, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 132 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Valence School website
We are proud to share with you the excellent work we do with children and young people who have physical disabilities and complex medical needs. Our school is unique within the maintained sector in the whole of southern England. We cater for students aged 4 to 19 and have both day and boarding places. We have a large site with high quality teaching, social care and health care facilities. A staff team of over 200 people provides specialist teaching, social care, therapies and nursing care to an exceptionally high standard.
Our overall aim is to enable every child and young person to achieve meaningful independence. Students flourish in a supportive but challenging environment, making good educational progress and achieving a range of accreditation as they get older. There is excellent support to enable students to achieve functional communication, mobility and skills for daily living.
We are a Foundation Special School and are part of the Kent SEN Trust, a cooperative trust of ten schools working together to improve outcomes for all the children and young people attending the schools. In 2008 Valence became a specialist Sports College and this status plays a significant role in raising students’ achievements and their participation in high quality physical education and sport.
The School works proactively with parents and external professionals to provide holistic support for every child and young person. It is also developing high quality outreach support services to local schools and more widely for children and young people in Kent who have physical disabilities who are attending mainstream schools.
The School always places children and young people at the centre of all decisions it takes and it has a relentless focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for every student.
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