Main Clinical Duties (Determined via yearly job planning process). Please see Supporting Information for full Job Description. To develop and provide the psychological component of the new Specialist Obesity and Bariatric Service. To provide specialist psychological assessment of patients based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests self-report measures, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members/carers and/others involved in the patients care. To draw upon a range of conceptual models and therapeutic frameworks to formulate, develop and implement specialised programmes of care for individuals, couples and groups. To make skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options; taking account of therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and are relevant to the presenting problems. To refine psychological formulations by drawing upon different explanatory models of proven efficacy and maintaining several provisional hypotheses. To manage situations where there may be a difference of opinion over decisions made in the patients best interests, taking the psychological impact on the patient into account. To communicate in a sensitive and skilled manner the information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plan to the patient themselves, their carers, referral agents and where appropriate other involved professionals. This will involve providing sensitive information using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills when patients, or their relatives may be highly distressed. To carry individual accountability for all clinical decisions, and exercise responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients. To respect diversity. To treat everyone with dignity and respect and act in ways that acknowledge and recognise peoples expressed beliefs, preferences, and choices. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the patients treatment plan. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To provide specialist input into Bariatric Patient Information Seminars.