Observe and adhere to the NCTHnet Service Specification, vision, aims and objectives. To work at all times in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. To provide highly specialist assessments of children, young people, adults and their families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex information from a variety of sources. Using a range of systemic assessment tools including live team observations and videotape analysis to create methods for client centred analysis of change. To formulate and implement plans for the formal family therapy and or management of a childs or young persons mental health problems and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To create and deliver highly specialised therapeutic interventions with groups of children/ families and professionals which draw from a broad spectrum of systemic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group. To undertake risk assessment and management for clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To deliver an agreed package of care to children and families and adults and families with complex problems across the developmental spectrum and managing these within the context of multidisciplinary working. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group. To provide an opinion regarding appropriate interventions where views may differ across the service and or other agencies. To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all setting and agencies serving the client group. To design, develop and advise on assessment and treatment interventions which are delivered as appropriate by other staff e.g. nurses, social workers, occupational therapy and other practitioners under the post holders supervision. To ensure that professionals in other agencies working with a child, young person, adults or families have access to a systemic based formulation and treatment plane for children, young people, adults and families seen within the service, through the provision of effective communication, advice, consultation and dissemination of best practice and research. To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding meeting, clinical reviews etc providing professional advise on individual care planning and other clinical matters as necessary. To provide specialist consultation to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapeutic techniques and where appropriate for working jointly with other team members in the provision of individual and group based programmes. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by systemic and family therapy-based intervention plans. To advise on the development and integration within the service on systemically based assessment and intervention. To act, where appropriate, as multi-agency coordinator for the planning and review of care plans for children involved with complex, multi-agency systems.