Speech & Language Therapist

at  ST ANDREWS MISSION HOSPITAL

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

Please refer the Job description for details