• Question: what do you find hard in this job?

    Asked by 275menb43 to Psychiatry Ward Team, Neel - Psychiatrist, Home Treatment Team, Early Intervention Team, Ed - Mental Health Nurse, Arts Therapy Team, Annabel - Head of HR on 1 Feb 2019. This question was also asked by 522menb25.
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      Sheffield Psychiatry Ward Team answered on 1 Feb 2019:

      I find it difficult when I am helping patients who have had very traumatic or sad experiences, because although I can help them get through the difficult situation I can’t take the pain away. I also find it difficult giving bad news to people.

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      Home Treatment Team answered on 3 Feb 2019:

      Hi, it’s Julie here. In all honesty, the hardest bit of my job is managing staff and trying to provide the best service with financial and political constraints. The patients are the easiest!

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      Ed Freshwater answered on 5 Feb 2019:

      My most difficult cases are quite upsetting because it doesn’t just involve the mother but their baby as well.

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      Arts Therapy Team answered on 7 Feb 2019:

      Richard: Perhaps sometimes having to have difficult conversations, about how nothing will help or cure someone of their suffering, or take the bad things that have happened to them away, a pill cannot do that, only compassion, acceptance and a willingness to re learn that trust in others is a pathway to finding one self again.

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      Neel Halder answered on 9 Feb 2019:

      The job can be demanding and stretches you but I think this is a good thing. Initially I did find the long hours hard, but this gets easier as you climb the ladder. I always wanted a job that was not easy as I think I would get bored.

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