To provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and advice on intervention approaches consistent with professional standards to adults with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) To work in partnership with stakeholders, e.g. prison officers, carers, education, other health and social care professionals to ensure positive outcomes for adult prisoners. To develop, deliver and evaluate teaching/training programmes in this specialist area to a range of audiences within healthcare. To be responsible for leading service improvement and quality assurance of practice in the identified specialist area (SLCN) in collaboration with the clinical mental health teams.