KEY RESPONSIBILITIES To provide generic mental health and specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic/ Systemic assessments of children and their families/carers referred to the 0-5 team, drawing on a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures and rating scales, as well as direct and indirect clinical observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their familys mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses. To be responsible, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Lead, for implementing a range of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams, appropriate to your specialism (psychodynamic/psychoanalytic or systemic psychotherapy) To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist advice from your clinical model/ attachment-based models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the development of formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plans. To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children and their families from a therapeutic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of your specialist model. This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.