Speech Therapist (Beqaa)

The Speech therapist is responsible for providing patients with treatment to help them develop and improve their ability to communicate and to develop oral/feeding/swallowing skills. Their duties include performing initial patient assessments, speech, language, cognitive-communication, oral/feeding/swallowing disorders and coaching them through therapeutic objectives and activities.

Duties and responsibilities

The Speech therapist must have the expertise at a variety of duties and responsibilities, such as:

• Assessing the patient’s speech, language, cognitive-communication, oral/feeding/swallowing skills to develop a treatment plan 
• Giving advice and providing support for family members and caregivers
• Advising on material and tools to help clients with daily life.
• Installing the necessary tools in the house for children with disabilities and teaching them how to use them.
• Helping children to be independent in communication based on their unique conditions
• Reviewing the patient’s progress and adapting the treatment accordingly
• Performing administrative tasks such as keeping records, writing reports and making collaboration when needed
•  Synthesizing evaluation results into a comprehensive written report which reflects strengths and barriers to child’s participation in the educational environment; directs program development; and guides evidence-based intervention.

Team collaboration:

Speech-language pathologist regularly collaborates with other disciplines and services at departmental and system levels. Speech-language pathologist is expected to independently review outcomes and modify intervention programs. Clinical reasoning and professional judgment are essential to ensuring the safety of children and protecting liability of SOS system and the therapist.

These are the main important tasks:  

• Collaborating with other disciplines to ensure team understanding of child’s communication performance strengths and needs, through evaluation, educational program planning, and service delivery.
• Participating in multidisciplinary meetings to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individual development plans and intervention plans to achieve IDP goals.
• Participating in case study meeting with multidisciplinary team in order to develop individual development plans and intervention plans to achieve IDP goals.
• Providing experiential learning, and treatment groups to address speech, language, cognitive-communication skills and school related skills and social skills.
• Ability to participate collaboratively with educators to develop Individualized Education Plans to meet children needs.

Child Safeguarding (CS)

• Responsible within own area of work to prevent and protect children of all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination based on SOS Child Protection Policy principles
• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the national CS focal person or any other member of the national CS team and/or to respective line manager