To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the MSK Pain Management Service and other clients deemed appropriate by the psychology and service leads from the general MSK service when necessary or appropriate 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 clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental and physical health problems (in terms of the psychological management of physical symptoms which can complement any medical based approach e.g pain management skills or skills to manage health anxiety) based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within the MSK service where necessary or appropriate individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To use routine outcome measures as required by the service. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models with particular reference to pain management and health psychology theory 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 clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of 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 contribute to the design, evaluation and delivery of the Pain Management Programme RESTORE as directed and agreed with the Band 8a psychologist who is responsible for the day to day design, evaluation and delivery of the Programme, including assessment of suitable clients and routine collection of outcome data. To identify on the basis of the exclusion and inclusion criteria for the pain management service clients referred for pain management psychological assessment whose needs are best served by other local services rather than or in addition to the MSK Pain management service e.g IAPT or CMHT services and to liaise as appropriate with these teams to make onward referrals and to work alongside these teams if dual integrated work is considered appropriate. Where appropriate, to undertake holistic initial assessment of new referrals to the MSK Psychology service and to identify on the basis of the exclusion and inclusion criteria for the service and psychological assessment and formulation clients whose needs are best served by other local services e.g IAPT or CMHT and to liaise as appropriate with these teams to make onward referrals and / or work in conjunction with these teams to support the delivery of services by physical health therapists. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients on caseload and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.