Clinical responsibilities To provide specialist psychological assessments of children, young people and their families referred to the Youth Justice CAMHS Psychology Service. This will involve the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests (and neuropsychological tests, if appropriately trained), self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, young people, family members and others involved in the client's care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child or young person's mental health or forensic problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings including custodial placements. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual children and young people, 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 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, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for children and young people. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all client children and young people 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. To be an active core panel member of YJS led Multi-Agency Panels, including other risk panels. To offer psychological support to staff when a distressing or traumatic event has occurred at work. To act as a keyworker, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including client children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the YJS and CAMHS policies and procedures. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists. Research and Service Evaluation To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision. Teaching, Training, and Supervision To receive regular clinical/forensic professional supervision from a more senior psychologist and, where appropriate, from other senior professional colleagues. To develop skills in professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work as appropriate. To provide, professional and clinical forensic supervision of trainee and assistant clinical/forensic psychologists. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification forensic teaching of clinical, forensic and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.