Senior Speech and Language Therapist

The Speech and Language Therapist needs to use discipline-specific skills to provide goal-orientated treatment through both direct and consultative intervention strategies for students, in order to facilitate Speech-language skill development, motivate them and capture their interest.

**1. SLT and Integrated Therapy**:

- To hold responsibility for Speech-language Therapy programmes as part of the Department’s Speech-language Therapy service delivery, including programme planning timelines, and administration
- Support the Head of Therapy and Pastoral Care to develop, implement and maintain Speech-language Therapy services including peer consultation, referral delegation of clients, clinical policies and guidelines reflecting evidence-based practice and within regulatory guidelines
- Attend monthly Speech-language Therapy meetings (as required) with the purpose of providing peer supervision, case discussion, discuss student goals and plans, communication and problem solving of Speech-language Therapy specific matters, organising/providing internal CPD
- Participate in regular multidisciplinary meetings (as required) to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individualized education plans and intervention plans to achieve specific short term and long-term goals
- To assist with the integrated therapy service model collaborating with the therapy and teaching team in ensuring understanding of student Speech-language performance strengths and needs through evaluation, educational program planning, and delivery

**2. Orientation, Supervision and Education**:

- Provide and document general supervision to SLT Interns
- To implement and maintain supervision in line with the AHPC Singapore Supervisory framework and keep up to date with AHPC’s mandatory legislation
- To provide education and training to parents, teachers and other professionals including awareness talks, in-service training o workshops and keep abreast of current ethical practice and current diagnostic criteria
- Assist Head of Therapy and Pastoral Care in the orientation of new Speech-language Therapists and lead in providing mentorship to establish team bonding

**3. Safety, Policies and Procedures**:

- Ensure the safety standards of therapy rooms and spaces are of a high standard through continual observation of possible health and safety hazards through repair, maintenance and cleanliness of the rooms and all resources/equipment by observing AHPC required standards;
- Report any issues, defects, repairs or maintenance needed in therapy rooms immediately both verbally and in writing, copying the Head of Corporate Services
- Maintain client confidentiality by ensuring that parent consent is obtained for information to be shared between the child’s teaching, pastoral care and therapy team
- To liaise with Therapy Support to create and manage inventories of all SLT resources including assessment kits

**4. Intervention and Collaboration**:

- Promote development of speech and language skills of students including but not limited to speech clarity, phonological skills, language comprehension and expression, social communication, and executive functions.
- Provide targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and Speech-language performance within diverse school environments, including but not limited to the classroom, playground, fieldtrips, camps, special activities as part of the school routine.
- Provide Integrated support including push-in classroom support and pull-out groups to students in every designated classroom, on a weekly basis, in consult with the respective Head of School and in collaboration with the teachers, across both teacher-led and therapist-led activities
- Carry out an average of five (1 per working day of the week) Group Therapy sessions per week
- Conduct observations, administer screening tools and provide written feedback during screening for students on trial for an average of 2 students per week

**5. Documentation and Communication**:

- To ensure all therapy sessions, be it group or individual, are documented
- To ensure documented and consistent communication with parents, caregivers and professionals
- Maintain up-to-date documentation in each student profile corresponding to therapy services received in the school year, updated at the end of each term
- Conduct regular documentation audits concerning everything related to Speech-language Therapy to ensure record keeping meets AHPC regulatory standards
- Provide parent communication in keeping with School communication for push-in support to ensure parents are updated on Integrated Therapy classroom sessions
- Ensure that Integrated Therapy Support staff receive clear instructions as to what they need to do while assisting the Speech-language Therapist.

**6. To adhere to all policies, procedures, rules, regulations and Code of Conduct of the Department and Sch