Clinical specialist

Pay in the destination countries

Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.

What does the day look like?

As a clinical specialist, your work is not playing pronunciation games with children — mild articulation accounts for less than 15% of the day. Over 85% is acute medical physiology: 20% of your day is spent running Video-Fluoroscopic Swallowing Studies (VFSS / MBS) with radiologists or passing a flexible nasendoscope into the hypopharynx for Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES). Another 20% involves calibrating eye-gaze hardware like Tobii Dynavox I-Series, configuring vocabularies in Grid 3 or PRC-Saltillo software, and making communication books for intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Direct ward care takes 25% of your time: managing tracheostomy Passy-Muir speaking valves, weaning post-stroke and traumatic brain injury dysphagia patients in the ICU, and head-and-neck oncology rehabilitation. Another 25% goes to writing medico-legal swallow reports in electronic systems like Epic Systems, Cerner Millenium, or SystmOne, alongside multidisciplinary meetings with neurologists and dietitians. The remaining 10% is clinical supervision of junior therapists. Standard hours are 37.5 hours per week in the UK or 40 hours in the US and Australia. Night work does not routinely occur, but weekend acute stroke on-call rotas (typically 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 weekends) are mandatory.

Where does this lead?