Job responsibilities: 1. To work with the Clinical Lead and Service Manger to deliver safe and effective specialist support services including the following:a. Delivery of 1:1 psychological therapy to service users with trauma, emotional dysregulation, behaviours of concern, offending behaviour and mental health diagnosesb. Risk assessment and formulationc. Advice and Consultation to external agenciesd. Attendance at multi-agency meetings (including CTRs, MAPPA, MARAC etc)e. Contribute to the services Intensive Support Function2. To provide specialist psychological assessments of people referred to GMSST based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological 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.3. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a persons mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.4. 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 several provisional hypotheses.5. 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.6. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, across all settings and agencies serving them.8. To actively undertake risk assessment and risk management for service users and to provide advice and liaise with other teams and professions across Greater Manchester on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To participate in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency risk assessment in complex service networks.9. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.10. Has line management responsibility for assistant clinical psychologists.11. To manage the workloads of assistant clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.12. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.13. To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant clinical psychologists.14. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology and other disciplines, as appropriate, including the supervision of clinical psychologists in training.15. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with service users across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.16. 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.17. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.18. To initiate and undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.19. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of GMSSTs operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.20. To lead the relevant research activity within GMSST as required by the service.21. To develop research bids and coordinate applications for the research funding, as required by the service.22. To establish and maintain research partnerships with relevant internal and external individuals and groups.23. To foster and inspire innovative ideas and developments aimed at enhancing the experience of service users and carers, and support their development through research and/or project management methodology.24. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.25. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.26. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists, and of team members from other professions, where appropriate.27. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to the team, in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users; and to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, training and project work.28. To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care, including contributing to the organisation of training seminars and conferences for others.29. To maintain up to date knowledge of clinical and policy related best practice and new developments in the field of personality disorder. 30. To manage information resources relating to this and ensure their wide availability, working closely with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust knowledge, services and relevant external partners.31. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning the historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.32. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users.33. To contribute to the development of systems to support, mentor and supervise service users working in the service.34. To be engaged and participate in the future development of GMSST and promote a culture of continuous service improvement.35. To help develop effective clinical pathways for people who have a learning disability and/or autism with complex needs within the wider health and social care community across Greater Manchester.