Job overview

37.5 hours per week, term time only

FTC June 2026 – December 2026

LSEC Therapy Team, London South East Colleges, Bromley Campus

An exciting opportunity for a Speech & Language Therapist wanting to further develop their managerial skills alongside their highly specialist clinical skills. If you have significant experience in the field of Adult Learning Disability (ALD) and/or Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), including specialist dysphagia skills, we would welcome your application. You would be joining a highly respected team of Speech & Language Therapists, Co-workers & Assistants working across 3 London Boroughs in a variety of settings.

You will be managing a small Therapy Team of SaLT, OT & Physio at the London South East Colleges (LSEC) group, Bromley Campus. The well respected Therapy Team service has been developing over the last 10 years & is now contracted on a longer-term basis. The service aims to support young people with SEND to access the college curriculum & prepare for adulthood. Team activities include assessment, classroom observations, provision of therapy plans & groups. There is a strong emphasis on functional communication, use of AAC & creation of an inclusive communication environment.

The post is term time Maternity cover but you could consider joining Oxleas Bank if you are interested in work opportunities during the college holidays.

Important Sponsorship Information: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post

Main duties of the job

To work as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Therapy Team Clinical/Operational Lead within the Adult Learning Disabilities Directorate, delivering high quality assessment and intervention to young people attending SEND courses at LSEC Bromley Campus.

You will be working alongside other Band 7 SaLTs in the Directorate, supported by the Professional Lead, to develop and implement creative, evidence based and efficient approaches to service delivery. We have a robust supervision and PDR process and are keen to support continuing personal development. We encourage the development of special interests and meet regularly as a SaLT service to share skills and knowledge.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care