Senior / Speech Therapist

You will assess, diagnose and treat patients in the areas of communication, voice and swallowing in a multi-disciplinary setting. Caregiver training will be an essential aspect of your work.

Job Responsibilities:
Assess patients in a logical and sequential manner, generating and testing a hypothesis reasoning.

Analyse patients' problems directly related to the conditions referred, demonstrating sound clinical reasoning.

Plan and implement treatment, reflecting current available scientific evidence, ensuring patient safety and effectiveness of intervention.

Monitor patients' progress throughout treatment, prepare and maintain records and reports as appropriate, ensuring adherence to confidentiality requirements.

Participate as an active member of the care team via attending relevant ward / unit rounds, clinics, meetings and in research and work improvement activities.

Contribute to achievement of departmental action plan, collaborating with internal and external clients in a professional manner.

Contribute to learning and growth through active participation in departmental clinical education and clinical training initiatives.

Supervise and facilitate learning of support staff / students / junior staff / peers as required.

Oversee Therapy Assistants on performance of duties to ensure safe and effective treatment.

Job Requirements:
Bachelor / Master Degree in Speech Pathology or its equivalent.

Trained and experienced in working with adult patients with voice and swallowing disorders

Good interpersonal skills.

Good team player and able to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.

Preferably with ability to speak more than 1 language or dialect.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Changi General Hospital (CGH)

is a trusted healthcare provider with over 1000 beds in eastern Singapore. We provide a comprehensive range of medical specialties. CGH offers the entire gamut of medical services, from general surgery, internal medicine, cardiology, ENT to orthopaedic surgery and dermatology. Our peaks of medical excellence are represented by the Integrated Sleep Service, Breast Centre @ changi, Endoscopy Centre, Diabetes Centre, Geriatric Centre and the Changi Sports Medicine Centre. Changi Sports Medicine Centre is Singapore’s largest and is a leading provider of sports medicine expertise.

CGH is dedicated to improving the health of the community in the east and to provide excellence and compassion in service and care. To improve care for patients, it has adopted a proactive integrated care approach. Partnering with healthcare providers in the east, it is bringing disease management programmes and disease prevention programmes to patients’ doorstep.