Job Description

Evaluation & Assessment

• Provide screening, identification, formal or informal assessments for students with speech, language, communication and feeding needs.
• Identify and prioritise goals for intervention in collaboration with the student/family/caregiver and multidisciplinary team
• Formulate care plans that are outcome based and relevant to students’ goals through planning, implementing, evaluating and managing interventions
• Measure outcomes of treatment and conduct continuous evaluation
• Recommend appropriate alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) devices as necessary
• Collaborate with the parents, teachers and the other allied health professionals to provide multi-disciplinary support to the students

Intervention

• Provide consultation, individual and/or group interventions that will improve students’ functional performance and skills.
• Select and prepare functional activities and recommendations to match students’ skills and interests
• Provide caregiver support to ensure and encourage continuity of intervention at home

Service Administration & Management

• Maintain inventory of resources
• Plan budget allocation and recommend relevant speech and language therapy resources for the school
• Conduct in-house training programs for internal and external stakeholders (eg. teachers / parents / caregivers / volunteers)
• Participate in developing protocols and clinical guidelines to improve services in conjunction with the Head of Student Support/Principal
• Maintain records and documentation of assessment and intervention

Job Specifications

• Possess Degree in Speech Pathology from an institution recognized by the Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC)
• Valid practising certificate with full registration from the Allied Health Professional Council (AHPC)
• Applicants for Senior Therapist position should possess at least 5 years of relevant working experience.
• Prior experience working with special needs children/ adults will be an added advantage
• Good team player with strong communication, interpersonal skills and critical thinking
• Able to work independently and effectively under pressure
• Able to relate well to people and work effectively and harmoniously within a multidisciplinary team setting

Job Responsibilities

• Assist the speech-language therapist with screening or assessments for students with speech, language, communication and feeding needs, without clinical interpretation
• Collaborate with the parents, teachers and the other allied health professionals to provide multi-disciplinary support to the students
• Provide therapy following an intervention plan developed by the speech-language therapist
• Select and prepare functional activities and recommendations to match students’ skills and interests
• Assist with administrative duties
• Prepare therapy materials
• Maintain inventory of resources
• Maintain records and documentation of assessment and intervention
• Perform other duties as assigned

Job Holder Requirements & Attributes

• Possess a relevant skills certificate from a recognised institution (e.g. WSQ Healthcare (Therapy Support) or CAE Professional Certificate in Speech Therapy Assistance)
• Prior experience working with people with special needs will be an added advantage
• Good team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to work independently and effectively under pressure
• Able to relate well to people and work effectively and harmoniously within a multidisciplinary team setting
• Candidates with GCE ‘O’ level certificate (including a pass in English) and/or relevant experience can also be considered for this role.

Job: Clinic Assistant

Gleneagles Medical Centre

Endocrinology Clinic

Working hours:
M-F: 8.30 – 5.30pm
S: 8.30-1pm

Job scope:
- Front desk duties including registration, ushering patients, payment processing, coordination of appointments for patients , scanning of documents, basic dispensing of medications, etc…
- Administrative duties such as - handling of basic bills such as checking of hospital bills, bills to the clinic or credit card bills; filling and scanning of patient’s information and results
- Basic stock taking of drugs in the clinic
- Assisting the doctor with procedures

Requirements for the job:

- O levels and above or Nitec Nursing

- Knowledge of Mandarin and English compulsory, if possible can converse in Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia

- Experience not required but must be:

o Willing to learn

o Capable of handling computers eg emails, Microsoft word

o Capable of using smart phones eg sending text messages, whatspp

o Experience with clinic assist software is preferable, if not, ability and willingness to be able to learn how to use it. Hence has to be comfortable with computers and IT

- Able to multitask and prioritise work

- Good organisational skills

- Team player

- Good social skills as dealing with patients

- Able to work independently

Salary:

- Commensurate with skills – from $1800 onwards