Personal Qualities



Empathy with children, adolescents and their carers: the ability to communicate understanding of another person's experience from that person's perspective. ‘Carers’ is used generically to include anyone who looks after a child at anytime and includes for example nurses, teachers and social workers
Resilience: the capacity to work with the client's concerns without being personally diminished.
Respect: showing appropriate esteem to others and their understanding of themselves - not to patronise
Humility: the ability to assess accurately and acknowledge one's own strengths and weaknesses and to show this to clients.
Competence: the effective deployment of the skills and knowledge needed to do what is required given the resources available
Wisdom: possession of sound judgement that informs practice.