To provide specialist family and systemic therapy assessments of clients accessing CYPMHS, through work with clients, family members and others involved in the service users care.To formulate and implement plans for the formal family therapy and family interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.To be responsible for implementing family interventions for carers, families and groups, accessing CYPMHS and supporting formulations.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 provide specialist family therapy advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service user formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic framework of understanding to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management according to Mersey Care Trust policies and procedures.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 the course of multi-disciplinary care. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of family therapy over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.To support development of knowledge and skills through training around family interventions amongst staff in CYPMHS.Where appropriate, to provide professional and specialist systemic clinical supervision to honorary and trainee family therapists and to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainees.To provide advice, consultation, supervision and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit including managing own referral system and reporting regularly on waiting times.To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where systemic and/or organisational matters need addressing.To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of junior staff.The post holder will be expected to make full use of IT packages available within the work area, for example, Microsoft Office, email, internet and statistical packages. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.To undertake research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research as appropriate.To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.To undertake a defined role in local division Service Governance structures as agreed. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s) in line with the priorities of the service and PDP objectives and to provide evidence of CPD undertaken, e.g., in the form of CPD logbook.To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychotherapy/psychology across the service.To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the AFT, other professional bodies and local division and Trust policies and procedures.To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required by their Head of Service.