Principal Speech Therapist

• Full Time
• Singapore

Responsibilities

Clinical Management

• Provide clinical leadership and advanced clinical practice across a wide range of routine and complex cases. Responsibilities include:\
• Assess, develop, plan, and implement speech therapy interventions to clients with speech, language, communication, and/or swallowing difficulties in accordance with programme approach, framework, and SOPs.
• Be part of the collaborative team (e.g., multi-, inter-, trans-disciplinary) to work with clients on a one-to-one basis, group, or special setting based on programme requirements and client levels of functioning.
• Monitor clients’ speech therapy progress, evaluate intervention effectiveness, and review clients’ speech therapy needs in accordance with programme requirements.
• Provide speech therapy consultation, support and update on the clients’ progress and status to caregivers and all those involved in the client care team.
• Refer clients to respective specialists (e.g., other therapists, psychologists, neurologists, doctors, etc.) for consultation and further treatment or training as and when necessary.
• Conduct home/school/workplace visits when necessary.
• Provide speech therapy-related training on relevant platforms when required.
• Provides consultation to speech therapists on complex cases and maintains consistent standards of care for complex cases across SPD programmes.

Clinical Administration

• Lead in new clinical service development in collaboration with internal and external partners to enhance service delivery and client care.
• Identify opportunities for clinical or operational improvement and collaborate with team members to test and evaluate innovative approaches.
• Lead departmental administrative duties and operational processes to support service delivery.
• Lead in service quality assurance initiatives, including audits, risk identification, and incident reporting.
• Manage and oversee team caseload allocation, ensuring equitable distribution and efficient utilisation of clinical resources.
• Advise on budget planning and resource needs for therapy equipment and materials for the division when required.

Clinical Teaching and Supervision

• Demonstrate strong supervisory capabilities and provide formal clinical supervision as primary supervisor to both Conditional-Registration and Full-Registration therapists.
• Build the supervisory capabilities of junior and new supervisors within the department/division.
• Mentor and coach senior speech therapists, contributing to their clinical and leadership development.
• Plan, organise, and deliver division-level continuing education and clinical training initiatives.
• Develop and implement competency development frameworks and supervision assessment tools to address clinical learning gaps.

Professional Development

• Demonstrate leadership in professional development and sector engagement through active participation in conferences, learning networks, and special interest groups.
• Steer research in the department by identifying clinical practice gaps, conducting research, and supervising research projects to address them.
• Guide evidence-based practice by participating in the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Champion knowledge translation within the department through training, case reviews, and integration of current evidence.

Other Activities

• Lead division-level initiatives, workgroups, or inter-departmental committees.
• Represent SPD in external networks or Communities of Practice (CoPs), including collaborations with Public Health Institutes (PHIs), other Social Service Agencies (SSAs), and/or Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs).
• Participate in events organised by SPD when required.
• Engage in any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Speech Therapy or its equivalent.

• Possess Full-Registration as a Speech Therapist under the Allied Health Professions Act 2011.

• Possess at least 10 years of clinical experience, with active practice in the last 5 consecutive years at a supervisory level.

• Has clinical practice experience in at least two community settings with demonstrated adaptability and sector-wide experience.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both within and outside of SPD.

• Fluency in local languages will be an advantage.