To provide specialist psychological assessments interventions for families accessing the BABS Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, ratingscales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the individual and others involved in the families care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of an individuals psychological needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their needs, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, triage, treatment, signposting or referral and discharge of individuals whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. To proactively outreach and provide targeted support to families who would benefit from the BABS Service and deliver accredited screening tools to assess needs, triage and signpost people to the most appropriate service for them. To provide specialist parent-infant psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to an individuals formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of individuals, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of individuals where there may be conflicting views, high emotion and significant barriers to understanding and change, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care. To provide clinical leadership within the BABS Service that serves families and the population of staff employed by health, social care, primary care and emergency services to bolster the health and wellbeing offer and provide specialist training, supervision, consultation and reflective practice when required, including supporting the development of workforce resilience. To support the development of clinical pathways within the BABS Service including mapping the current psychological offer across Cheshire & Merseyside, developing online resources and resources to be used within the BABS Service that are clinically sound.