Job Title:  Speech & Language Therapist

Job Summary

• Provide speech and language therapy service to patients with swallowing, speech, or language disorder as most appropriate to clients, patients or family decided upon review of the patients’ needs to enable them to become more independent and able to live a lifestyle of their choosing that supports health and wellbeing.
• Apply principles, methods, and procedures for the prevention, identification, evaluation, treatment, consultation, habilitation, rehabilitation, instruction, and research, relative to the development and disorders of human communication; to related oral and pharyngeal competencies; and to behavior related to disorders of human communication.
• Partnership with a multidisciplinary team in order to diagnose, assess and manage the patient’s conditions through a range of speech and language therapy assessment and treatment techniques.

Principles Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis:

• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients within the service in relation to communication and dysphagia needs using advanced clinical assessment tools and other forms of manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of patients’ conditions.
• Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
• Manage clinical risk within own caseload.
• Formulate accurate prognoses and develop comprehensive discharge plans.

Treatment Planning and Intervention:

• Formulate intervention plans from thorough assessment with patients and their family/carers as required to ensure positive changes and comprehensive discharge plans.
• Able to practice autonomously and make positive use of clinical supervision to develop and quality check decisions made.
• Access and utilize the most contemporary relevant research and evidence-based practice to support decision making in the clinical setting.
• May be required to provide House Call and/or On Call Services to patients to ensure continuous monitoring of recovery progress.
• May be required to cover for other clinical aspects of speech and language therapy other than Neurological such as but not limited to Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) or Oncology.

Communication and Multidisciplinary Collaboration:

• Utilize a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools as appropriate to communicate effectively with patients, carers, and other Allied Health professionals to progress rehabilitation and treatment programs.
• Provide information to people we support, families, authorities, and all other stakeholders with relevant, timely, and accurate information in a format suited to the receiving person’s needs. This may include reports, letters or documents/systems using augmented communication methods as required.
• Facilitate effective and appropriate communication of required information to the relevant people in a timely manner.

Professional Requirement

• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply.
• A minimum of two (2) years of Clinical Training and experience is beneficial.
• Clinical-related work experience prior to commencing postgraduate training is desirable.

Educational Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Language Therapy or equivalent and appropriate recognized by the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam.

Specialised Skills/Knowledge/Attribute Requirement

• Sound clinical knowledge to collect relevant data, identify quality gaps and propose improvement activities; and to define operational objectives for the development of Rehabilitation care in accordance with patient conditions and overall rehabilitation clinical pathway plans.
• Certified training in assessment and management of dysphagia, aphasia and tracheostomy rehabilitation.

Closing Date

28th May 2025