GEMS Education Hiring for Speech and Language Therapist Job at Dubai Full Time

At GEMS Metropole we are looking for an experienced Speech and Language therapist to join us effective immediately. This is an exciting opportunity for a specialised educator to join our world class school and is driven to provide education at an exceptional level. Sucessful candidate will be working with Cambridge International School, Dubai and GEMS Founders School – Al Mizhar.

Job Purpose

• To provide Speech and Language therapy for students, through individual, group and/or teacher directed therapy sessions across cluster schools.
• Provide assessment for current and prospective students as needed
• To contribute to training of School staff and others as required
• To provide written documents as needed at a professional standard
• To facilitate parent workshops and training on how best to meet the needs of their child

Job Role

• To be responsible for the delivery of specialist speech and language therapy services including assessment, diagnosis and therapy.
• To provide specialist intervention demonstrating clinical effectiveness by the use of evidence based practice and outcome measures while being able to adapt practices to meet individual students’ needs
• To provide specialist therapy services utilising a variety of service delivery models including individual, joint, multidisciplinary, group and teacher directed sessions
• Management of a highly complex and demanding caseload of children
• To use specialist knowledge of standardised assessment and other assessment tools in combination with advanced reasoning skills to record baseline measures and/or differential diagnoses to support students learning needs
• To provide speech and language targets for integration into the educational curriculum as part of each students’ IEP in consultation with parents, teachers and other multidisciplinary staff
• To attend and participate in regular multidisciplinary team meetings and deliver training sessions for Teachers, Teaching Assistants and Parents
• To regularly assess, monitor and review the students’ ongoing communication needs. Including writing intervention programmes for implementations by Teachers and Teaching Assistants in line with the schools graduated approach
• Ensure service delivery meets the requirements as defined by the DHA and KHDA
• Manage a caseload while taking into account priority cases, waiting lists, successful outcomes, referral and discharge of service users
• Ensure DHA license requirements are fulfilled annually
• Manage the database management and booking software.
• Take responsibility for the ordering and subsequent storage and use of team equipment and resources including plans for risk management, infection control and safe handling.
• Support newly qualified SLTs and speech
• Represent the team/department within multi-disciplinary systems within the GEMS Group and wider community.
• Undertake personal/professional development planning evidenced by a Personal Development Plan/Professional portfolio developed within an appraisal framework.
• Attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required to support clients.

The successful candidate will have:

• A minimum of 3 years experience as an Speech and Language therapist within a high performing department, preferably within a British Curriculum school
• A minimum of 1 years experience as Speech and Language therapist in UAE
• A certified professional teaching qualification, such as B.Ed, PGCE or equivalent specializing in Speech and Language therapy or similar
• Additional qualification or specialism such as a TEFL/IELTs/CELTA/Cambridge certification is an advantage
• Ability to build strong relationships with students, parents and colleagues
• Ability to assess student performance, write language plans and set appropriate goals for students to ensure progress

• DHA licensed

About Your Benefits
All positions attract an excellent remuneration package including a competitive tax free salary, individual fully furnished accommodation, school tuition fee concession, private medical insurance, annual airfare to country of residence, and End of Service Gratuity.