Speech Therapist

Basel

Key information

Publication date:24 August 2025
Workload:100%
Place of work:Basel

Job summary

The Adullam Foundation is a leading institution for geriatric medicine, therapy, and care in Northwest Switzerland. Join a vibrant team offering exceptional support and benefits!

Tasks

Conduct speech therapy diagnostics and treatment for various conditions.
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team on patient assessments and care.
Provide therapy for acute geriatric patients in diverse medical fields.

Skills

Completed training as a speech therapist or recognized certification.
Experience in clinical settings, preferably geriatrics.
Strong teamwork skills and a passion for working with elderly patients.

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The Adullam Foundation is a leading institution for geriatric medicine, therapy, and care in Northwestern Switzerland. It operates a hospital and an affiliated care center each in Basel and Riehen. The approximately 800 employees offer elderly people a regionally unique comprehensive care from acute medicine through rehabilitation to transitional and long-term care. Holistic care at Adullam includes a high quality standard, lived humanity, and great respect for age.

Speech therapy is firmly integrated in the treatment of our elderly patients by the interdisciplinary team in our hospital. The focus is on acute medical treatment as well as holistic rehabilitation for medical conditions, including neurorehabilitation.

To strengthen the speech therapy team at the Basel location, we are looking for a responsible and committed person by agreement

Speech Therapist

50%

| Basel Location

Your Tasks

Speech therapy diagnostics and treatment of dysphagia, aphasia, dysarthria, and dysphonia in inpatient and outpatient settings

Co-responsibility for clarifying the overall situation and treatment of patients in the interprofessional team

Treatment of acute geriatric, acute inpatient, and rehabilitation patients with conditions from geriatrics, internal medicine, surgery, and neurology (including tracheotomized patients in long-term care), as well as ENT-specific cases.

Consultation of relatives and caregivers

Findings and electronic progress documentation as well as service recording

Constructive interdisciplinary and professional collaboration

Your Profile

Completed training as a certified speech therapist or EDK recognition in speech therapy

Initial professional experience in the clinical field, ideally in inpatient geriatrics

Ideally in possession of a professional license

Dynamic, team-oriented, and resilient personality who constructively shapes collaboration in the lively hospital environment

Joy and interest in working with elderly people

Independent and networked way of working

Good PC skills for documentation

We offer you a responsible and diverse job in a lively and renowned Basel institution. For further information, please contact Mr. Frank Reinhold, Head of Speech Therapy, at +41 61 266 90 08.

We look forward to your application via our homepage www.adullam.ch