Speech and Language Therapist - Band 6
The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School, London, W10 4LE48 days remaining to apply
Closing date
1 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NHS Band 6 (£44,806 - £53,134 pa), including inner London HCAS, depending on experience.
Speech and Language Therapist - Band 6 job summary
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 an experienced and motivated Band 6 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. You’ll enjoy clinical autonomy, strong supervision, generous CPD opportunities, and the chance to work closely with education staff to embed strategies across school life.
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, social communication differences, 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.
Our therapy team also provides outreach support to a local primary school and to The St Marylebone CE School, an outstanding mainstream secondary school known for creativity, high academic standards and a strong inclusive ethos.
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 confident and experienced Band 6 therapist who can exercise clinical autonomy, build strong relationships with pupils, and work collaboratively with education staff to embed communication strategies across school environments.
The role offers the opportunity to manage an independent caseload across specialist and mainstream settings, delivering specialist assessment, intervention and review for students with a range of speech, language and communication needs.
You’ll be based mainly at our specialist setting, with 1–2 days per week delivering outreach SaLT to a mainstream secondary, supporting staff with universal strategies and targeted input where needed.
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.
There will also be opportunities to contribute to service development initiatives, supervise students or junior colleagues, and help to continue building a truly integrated, communication-rich environment for all pupils.
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 are warmly encouraged. If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Sarah McKay, Lead Speech & Language Therapist, by email at s.mckay@stmarylebonebridgeschool.com.
Closing date and Interviews:
We are reviewing applications as soon as they come in, and interviews will be arranged as suitable applications are received. There is no set closing date – the role will be taken down once it’s filled. If you’re interested, we strongly recommend applying as soon as possible.
Start date: ASAP
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 The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 71 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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