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
