Answers to commonly asked questions.
What support is there for members facing cutbacks/job regrading?
The RCSLT offers support to those members being faced with cutbacks, service restructure and job regrading, by providing access to specific resources and expert advisers.
The RCSLT has limited capacity to help with specific work-based issues, such as regrading or changes to terms and conditions. In these instances, we would direct members to their union for more support. In the UK, the union for SLTs is Unite.
If you’re an RCSLT member, you may find our leadership resources useful when dealing with budget-holders and decision-makers.
Building business cases for speech and language therapy
The RCSLT’s management provides guidance for members to support them in building business cases in our leadership resources.
Leadership mentors
RSCLT leadership mentors can support members facing these types of issues and provide extra support that is not based on a clinical area, for example, service-transformation.
Applying to RCSLT to share an opportunity
The RCSLT have temporarily paused accepting any new survey dissemination/participant recruitment opportunity requests. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you are a member, please access our members page for suggestions of alternative dissemination routes.
Disseminating research recruitment opportunities
The RCSLT can disseminate approved research participant recruitment opportunities, such as surveys, focus groups or interviews to members. However, the RCSLT receives a high volume of review requests and can only disseminate a limited number of these.
Please note that the RCSLT cannot act as formal ‘gatekeepers’ for research participant recruitment and should not be approached in this way. RCSLT should not be named on ethics applications as gatekeepers. The dissemination of a research recruitment opportunity by the RCSLT is not evidence of the RCSLT endorsing or approving the project.
The RCSLT is committed to supporting the development of new research and evidence-based approaches to therapy, and our review process helps us to make sure that any disseminated projects align with the RCSLT’s strategic vision.
The dissemination methods will be determined by both current and forthcoming RCSLT projects as well as other factors as highlighted in the review process, for example the volume of surveys received on a particular topic, the scale and potential impact of the project, and coordination with other RCSLT communications that may be scheduled.
