Speech and Language Therapist Band 5 or 6
The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School, London, W10 4LE8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
2nd September 2025
Closing date
30 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- NHS Band 5 (£35,964 - £43,780 pa) or Band 6 (£44,806 - £53,134 pa), including inner London HCAS, depending on experience.
Speech and Language Therapist Band 5 or 6 job summary
Salary: NHS Band 5 (£35,964 - £43,780 pa) or Band 6 (£44,806 - £53,134 pa), including inner London HCAS, depending on experience.
Contract: Full-time, 1 year fixed-term post, with possibility for extension thereafter.
Are you looking to join a welcoming school community where communication is central, strong relationships with pupils are built over time, and your specialist skills can make a lasting impact?
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join our established SaLT team at The St Marylebone CE Bridge School. This is a unique opportunity to support a caseload across specialist and mainstream settings, delivering impactful therapy in schools where communication is embedded throughout the curriculum. Whether you're newly qualified or bringing existing experience, you’ll be supported to develop your clinical practice through supervision, CPD, and close collaboration with education staff.
About the Schools
The St Marylebone CE Bridge School is a co-educational Special Free School for students aged 11–16 with EHCPs for Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). We are proud of our diverse community and welcome staff and students from all backgrounds, faiths, and none.
Our students have diverse communication profiles, including Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), Autism, and language disorders associated with other conditions. Many also benefit from therapeutic support for social, emotional and mental health development alongside their communication needs.
Our structured, nurturing environment supports both academic achievement and life skills, preparing students for successful, independent futures.
The therapy team also provides outreach support to The St Marylebone CE School (SMS), an outstanding mainstream girls secondary school. SMS has a long-standing inclusive ethos and a reputation for high academic standards, creativity, and innovation. As well as delivering student-specific support, our SaLTs work with staff across departments to embed communication-friendly practices and contribute to a whole-school understanding of SLCN.
About the team
You will join a close-knit, reflective, and pupil-centred team where clinical autonomy, collaboration and shared professional growth are central. Our Speech and Language Therapists work alongside Occupational Therapists, Wellbeing and Behaviour Specialists, and teaching staff to embed communication strategies across the curriculum, while retaining clear clinical identity and autonomy over their caseloads and intervention planning.
Our Lead SaLT is part of the Senior Leadership Team, ensuring that communication development is a central focus across the school’s planning and practice. We offer structured supervision, peer support, and regular opportunities for professional development and service innovation. Therapists are employed on a full-time basis with paid school holidays.
About the Role
We are seeking a motivated and adaptable therapist who can build strong relationships with pupils, contribute to collaborative working with education staff, and develop their clinical autonomy in a supportive, reflective team.
This is a varied and rewarding role across both a specialist and a mainstream setting, offering the chance to support students with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs. You’ll deliver assessment and intervention, as well as contribute to wider whole-school communication support through collaboration with teaching staff.
Collaborative working is at the heart of our approach, with therapists coaching and modelling communication strategies to education staff, and contributing actively to wider whole-school communication development.
Much of your time will be spent at our specialist setting, with additional time at our mainstream partner school, where you’ll work closely with staff to implement universal strategies and provide targeted input as needed.
There will also be opportunities to contribute to service development and wider team initiatives, with the scope to take on greater responsibility as confidence and experience grow.
What We OfferPaid school holidays
Supportive, close-knit SaLT team
Opportunities to work across specialist and mainstream settings
Generous CPD and regular supervision
Autonomy to shape your own clinical priorities
Collaborative working with teachers and other professionals
A warm, values-driven school community
How to apply
To apply, complete the My New Term Application Form and use the supporting statement section of the form to detail your suitability for the role, your motivation for making an application and how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the person specification.
Informal queries or visits to the school are warmly encouraged. If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Sarah McKay, Lead Speech & Language Therapist, on 0203 343 6345, or by email at s.mckay@stmarylebonebridgeschool.com.
Closing date: 9:00am, Friday 30th May Interviews: Expected to be held week commencing 2nd June
Start date: Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Please note that applicants may be called earlier so we recommend submitting your application as soon as possible.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & vulnerable adults and it is our expectation that all staff and volunteers share this commitment. Any offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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 are not accepted.
About The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 66 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
School location
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