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Clinical:   

1. To provide specialist systemic family therapy assessments for children/ adolescents who may be experiencing severe, highly complex and persistent physical and mental health problems.
2. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the formulation and implementation of treatment plans taking into account relevant evidence-based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family. 
3. To provide specialist systemic therapeutic treatment for children, adolescents, their parents/carers and families referred to the  Paediatric Service, with severe, highly complex and persistent physical and mental health problems. This may include some group and reflecting team interventions as well as face to face/virtual appointments.
4. To provide specialist systemic advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues within Sheffield Children’s Hospital and related external agencies who work with children/young people contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
5. To be responsible for working within the appropriate Child Protection and Deliberate Self Harm guidelines in relation to own cases.  This includes reporting to and liaising with multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (eg Social Services staff, CAMHS colleagues, adult mental health staff, primary health and hospital staff, education staff, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, named child protection worker).
6. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management. This may include some group and reflecting team interventions as well as face to face/virtual appointments.
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Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at [email protected]

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

• Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
• Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
• Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
• Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care