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1110880
UCL
11/05/2026
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Part-time; 20 hours per week
Not Applicable
Pay
£20.92
£3.92
Description
Role
Unitemps are recruiting for two Speech and Language therapist Research Assistants. Applicants must be qualified (or soon to be qualified) speech and language therapists. This role is for a mid May 2026 start date and has a projected end date of April 30th 2027. This is a part-time role at 20 hours per week. Payment is set at £20.92 per hour + £3.92 holiday pay. This role will be UCL hybrid working; part from campus and part from home.
BackgroundThe PLORAS project, led by Professor Cathy Price, aims to better understand and predict the recovery of speech and language after stroke. By enabling precise, individualised predictions, we can begin to move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy ensuring interventions are the right type, intensity, and duration. Understanding recovery potential would also enable patients and their carers to better plan for the future.
Our project involves obtaining brain scans and administering speech and language assessments to hundreds of stroke survivors with aphasia. We can then use this wealth of data to investigate the extent to which variability in the speed and degree of aphasia recovery arises from (i) the availability of intact neural structures that can learn to support lost functions, and (ii) non-lesion factors (e.g., therapy dose) that affect the ability to use these intact structures. For more information on the project, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ploras
Duties and responsibilities
We are recruiting a Research Assistant to provide support for the Patient Team in data collection.
Duties and responsibilities
- Tasks are likely to include the following, though this is not an exhaustive list:
1. Data collection and scoring
- Administering patient-reported outcome measures and demographic questionnaires to people with aphasia.
- Administering speech and language assessments, e.g. the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) to people with aphasia.
- Questionnaire and assessments may be administered either remotely (via telephone, email or videoconferencing) or in person (at the participant’s home or at the research centre), depending on research and participant needs.
- Scoring assessments, adhering to strict test and research protocols.
- Ensure high-quality, person-centred care by supporting participants throughout their involvement with the PLORAS project — including in-person, telephone, and online interactions — with attention to their communication needs, emotional wellbeing, and overall research experience.
2. Data entry and administration
- Apply clinical precision and attention to detail when entering, monitoring, and quality-checking participant data in the PLORAS database.
3. Additional duties
- Occasional administrative and liaison tasks within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.
4. General
- Maintain regular and transparent communication with line manager.
Skills and experience
- Candidates must be educated to degree level or equivalent standard in speech and language therapy.
- Candidates must have the legal right to live and work in the UK at the time of application.
A full JD can be seen here.
Location
UCL; hybrid working with 1 day per week from campus and the other days from home
Additional information
This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Thursday April 23rd. Interviews will be held shortly after.
*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).
*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.
Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.
Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.
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