Speech Language Therapist/Pathologist - (Sakina)

SEHA (Abu Dhabi Health Services)
Abu Dhabi
Full timeFunction: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)Skills: ["Communication","Liaising","Assessment","Clinical reasoning","Teamwork"]

Provide comprehensive speech and language therapy services to patients with developmental delays, fluency, voice, and feeding disorders. Independently manage a caseload with multidisciplinary collaboration, develop individualized treatment plans, and monitor progress. Conduct assessments using standardised tools, document outcomes, and liaise with families, carers, and educators. Deliver therapy within patients’ learning routines, exercising infection control and maintaining high professional standards in a busy SLT service in Abu Dhabi.

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7 months ago

Speech Language Therapist/Pathologist - (Sakina)

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Job Summary

Provide comprehensive speech and language therapy services to patients with developmental delays, fluency, voice, and feeding disorders. Independently manage a caseload with multidisciplinary collaboration, develop individualized treatment plans, and monitor progress. Conduct assessments using standardised tools, document outcomes, and liaise with families, carers, and educators. Deliver therapy within patients’ learning routines, exercising infection control and maintaining high professional standards in a busy SLT service in Abu Dhabi.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Independently managing with supervision a caseload of patients with developmental speech and language delay and disorder, social communication disorder including dysfluency and motor speech disorders (dyspraxia)
  • •Developing and implementing specialised speech and language treatment plans for individuals and groups targeting a wide range of difficulties (e.g. developing attention and listening skills; auditory processing skills; play and interaction; understanding and expression of language; speech production and sound system development i.e. pronunciation)
  • •Advising others regarding the management and care of patients with communication needs and oro-motor difficulties (e.g. setting and reviewing specific targets in collaboration with those in daily contact with the patient and responsible for developing the patient’s skills; demonstrating activities and providing resources to realise the targets).
  • •Using investigative skills and a broad knowledge of standardised assessments together with sound, analytical clinical reasoning skills in order to form a baseline measure or differential diagnosis from which to plan a programme of intervention
  • •Delivering therapy intervention ensuring that speech, language and communication programmes are an integral part of the patient's learning and daily routines
  • •Taking in depth case histories to include medical, social, psychological, educational and developmental information
  • •Working as a member of the SLT team providing an efficient and effective service, liaising with internal and external agencies. Providing 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
  • •Ensuring a productive therapeutic relationship is established with patients, carers and families, agreeing decision-making which is relevant to the patient's management, taking into account challenging communication impairment, challenging behaviour, psychological and emotional state and differing cultural attitudes and expectations
  • •Continuously monitoring all use equipment, reporting of any faulty behavior and contacting maintenance/supplier for any required repairs/updates
  • •Applying 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
  • •Maintining a high control over infection, safety and health regulations and making sure that all concerned parties follow the same
  • •Maintaining the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded

Key Requirements

  • •NLT 2 years of experience in field of Speech and Hearing Sciences or in Speech Language Pathology.
  • •Proven Communication skills in Arabic are desirable.
Experience:Allied HealthSpeech Therapy
Skills:CommunicationLiaisingAssessmentClinical reasoningTeamwork
Languages:Arabic

Company Brief

SEHA (Abu Dhabi Health Services)
SEHA (Abu Dhabi Health Services Company) is the UAE’s largest public healthcare network, operating hospitals, clinics and specialist centres across Abu Dhabi to deliver integrated, patient‑centred medical services and advanced clinical care.
Industry: Hospitals & Clinics
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Public Company
Headquarters: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 2007
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