Job responsibilities Establish, maintain and monitor quality assurance programmes to ensure compliance with agreed internal and external standards and service level agreements and to support the development and direction of Adult Learning Disability Service Speech and Language Therapy Services. Receive, manage and prioritise referrals from a range of professionals diagnosing and screening complex clients in order to identify how they may benefit from speech and language therapy and provide expert assessment and intervention to groups and individuals. To assess complex cases and use highly specialist skills to formulate a diagnosis and care coordinate a caseload as an autonomous practitioner within an MDT framework To manage and prioritise a complex caseload using specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement and decision making Prescribe appropriate treatment to assist the client to gain additional function where possible and enable the client to maximise existing function and/or to reduce anxiety and frustration by modifying the communication/physical environment to minimise the impact of disability on quality of life. To develop and deliver training programmes, providing information and advice to professional qualified and unqualified staff, voluntary organisations and family carers in order to improve understanding of clients needs. To develop care protocols/packages relating to a range of issues in areas of specialism, and to review relevant statistics for planning and monitoring the effectiveness of intervention, and for auditing the efficacy/effectiveness of adult learning disability according to departmental and national guidelines.