Clinical To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/psychotherapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans. To provide highly specialist psychotherapy assessments to service users referred to the Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the persons care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment/ psychotherapy implementation and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings. To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychotherapeutic 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 different provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make 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, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychotherapy based standard care plans. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To coordinate, where appropriate, complex intervention plans, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviews of plans, and including service users, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during both the course of uni- and multi-disciplinary care. Teaching, Training and Supervision To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC, BPS/BABCP/RCN, UKCP or other accrediting organisation as required e.g. ACAT and Trust guidelines. To provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate. To provide supervision for trainee psychological therapists/clinical psychologists (as appropriate) To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/psychotherapists, counsellors, assistant(s), or other professionals To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychotherapy/clinical psychology. To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings.