Speech & Language Therapist (SALT)

Danecourt School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6AA

58 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  25 April 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  26 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £38,221.00 - £48,227.00 Annually (FTE) Grade PO1 - points 27 - 37 (£31,515.58- £40,305.97) Actual salary + SEN Allowance £1539

Speech & Language Therapist (SALT) job summary

Join Danecout School as a Speech & Language Therapist!
A Speech and Language Therapy Role That’s As Unique As the Pupils You’ll Support

Hours: 35 hours per week (8:30 - 4.30 am Mon - Thurs; 8:30 - 4:00 Fri)

Contract: Permanent

Term Time Only Role: 39 weeks per year

Start Date: ASAP

Actual Salary: Grade PO1 - points 27 - 37 (£30,537.00 - £39,055.00) Actual salary + SEN Allowance £1491

Are you a passionate, experienced Speech and Language Therapist looking to make a real difference in a setting where your expertise will be valued and your impact visible every single day? Danecourt School offers a truly unique opportunity to work with pupils with special educational needs in a nurturing, inclusive, and therapeutic environment.

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapist who is developing a specialism in supporting children with complex learning needs. At Danecourt, you’ll join a team committed to helping every child communicate, learn, and thrive.

You’ll work alongside our Occupational Therapist, Behavioural Specialist, and Therapies Assistant, delivering integrated support within our primary-aged special school. You’ll also collaborate closely with NHS therapists and our skilled teaching teams to ensure communication strategies are embedded across the school day.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Empowering Pupils: Deliver targeted, specialist, and universal interventions to meet a wide range of communication needs

• Using AAC: Implement low, lite, and high-tech AAC, as part of a Total (inclusive) Communication approach tailored to individual pupils

• Supporting Dysphagia Needs: Provide support for a small but growing number of pupils with assessed/known feeding difficulties (basic dysphagia training is essential)

• Working Across Teams: Collaborate with families, teachers, and external professionals to develop and maintain consistent communication support

• Training Others: Deliver engaging and practical training for parents, class teams, and whole-school staff

• Contributing to EHCPs: Provide reports and input into annual reviews and SEND planning

• Professional Support and Supervision: You’ll receive regular supervision and support from our Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Who you Are
We’re seeking a proactive, experienced, and compassionate therapist who is:

• Qualified and HCPC-Registered

• Experienced in SEND, with confidence in working with children with complex needs

• AAC Confident, with skills in implementing a range of tools and approaches

• Dysphagia-trained (basic level essential)

• A Strong Communicator, able to work collaboratively and compassionately with pupils, families, and colleagues

• Driven by Outcomes, and aspirational in your approach to helping children achieve their fullest potential

What We Offer - check out this video on life at Danecourt!Danecourt offers a welcoming and inclusive environment where support staff are valued as key members of the team. As part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we offer meaningful career opportunities, collaborative working, and the chance to help pupils with SEND thrive. Here’s what you can expect:

• A supportive, team-based culture, where collaboration is key across classrooms and satellite provisions

• Meaningful Impact as your therapy skills will be embedded in daily school life — and you’ll see the immediate results of your support in children’s development and wellbeing

• Clear development pathways, through our ‘grow our own’ approach

• Access to specialist facilities, therapy support, outdoor learning spaces, and sensory playrooms that enrich the learning experience

• Access to regular training, including CPD for to build confidence and expertise

• Involvement in innovation, with the chance to contribute to the Maritime Outreach Support Service

• A strong sense of purpose, where your contribution directly impacts pupil progress, confidence and wellbeing

• Personalised learning plans tailored to meet each pupil’s specific needs

• Join a school that is proud to be the Winner of the Primary Special School Provision category at the Medway Parents and Carers Forum SEND Awards.

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Danecourt so special. Please contact the school office on 01634 232589 to arrange or call to speak to Lou Elliott about the role.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Danecourt School and the Maritime Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity, striving to build a team that reflects a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. The more inclusive we are, the stronger we become. All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with the latest safeguarding guidance.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.

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.

About Danecourt School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 257 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Danecourt School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/danecourt-school

Danecourt is a special school catering for primary aged children who have special educational needs. The school caters for children with a wide breadth of need including complex learning difficulties, autism and social emotional mental health needs.

At Danecourt our mission is to provide all pupils with a “stimulating learning environment that allows children to explore through a personalised curriculum to become STARS!

Self reliant Team Player Aspirational Resilient Successful

The highly trained staff teams maintain high expectations of what each individual pupil is able to achieve, striving to ensure that they all achieve their maximum potential; celebrating difference and encouraging curiosity and creativity. Staff work collaboratively with families and a range of other agencies in order to meet the pupils needs and as a result, they make strong progress academically, emotionally and socially. Pupil achievement is hugely valued and celebrated in a manner that is meaningful and appropriate for each pupil.

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