Speech and Language Therapist (Sakina)

Role Overview

Speech and Language Therapist (Sakina) at SEHA Hospitals. This role provides quality professional services in the evaluation and treatment of patients with Speech, Language, Cognitive, Fluency, Voice, Swallowing and Feeding Disorders and Associated Communication problems.

Role Purpose

To independently manage a caseload of patients with speech, language, and communication disorders, develop and deliver specialized treatment plans, and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and families to support patient outcomes across developmental, motor, fluency, and oro-motor difficulties.

Key Responsibilities

Assessment and Diagnosis

• Take in-depth case histories to include medical, social, psychological, educational and developmental information.
• Use investigative skills and broad knowledge of standardised assessments together with sound analytical clinical reasoning skills to form a baseline measure or differential diagnosis from which to plan a programme of intervention.

Treatment Planning and Delivery

• Independently manage, with supervision, a caseload of patients with developmental speech and language delay and disorder, social communication disorder including dysfluency and motor speech disorders (dyspraxia).
• Develop and implement specialised speech and language treatment plans for individuals and groups targeting a wide range of difficulties including developing attention and listening skills, auditory processing skills, play and interaction, understanding and expression of language, and speech production and sound system development (pronunciation).
• Deliver therapy intervention ensuring that speech, language and communication programmes are an integral part of the patient's learning and daily routines.

Stakeholder Management and Collaboration

• Advise others regarding the management and care of patients with communication needs and oro-motor difficulties, including setting and reviewing specific targets in collaboration with those in daily contact with the patient and responsible for developing the patient's skills; demonstrate activities and provide resources to realise the targets.
• Work as a member of the SLT team providing an efficient and effective service, liaising with internal and external agencies; provide timely and targeted individualised management, treatment and advice for patients, involving families, carers and educators and providing appropriate recommendations and training to professionals from other agencies and other disciplines.
• Establish and maintain a productive therapeutic relationship with patients, carers and families, ensuring decision-making is relevant to the patient's management and takes into account challenging communication impairment, challenging behaviour, psychological and emotional state, and differing cultural attitudes and expectations.

Health, Safety and Infection Control

• Continuously monitor all equipment use, report any faulty behaviour, and contact maintenance/supplier for any required repairs or updates.
• Apply standard precautions for infection control, using a series of interventions that minimise or prevent cross infection, including effective hand washing/cleansing when appropriate, particularly on entering and leaving clinical areas and between each patient.
• Maintain high control over infection, safety and health regulations and ensure that all concerned parties follow the same.

Confidentiality

• Maintain the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in field of Speech and Hearing Sciences or in Speech Language Pathology.
• Special Certificate required.
• Proven Communication skills in Arabic are desirable.