A-Z of services

At Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust staff have a duty to safeguard children and young people from harm. The Child Protection Team offers advice, support and training to all staff on issues relating to safeguarding children and young people. The team consists of safeguarding / child protection specialists who work across all areas covered by...

The Safeguarding Support Unit (SSU) is an outpatient facility at the main hospital site. The unit provides a full paediatric assessment to children and young people where safeguarding concerns have been raised or where the opinion of a specialist paediatrician has been sought. Our service deals with physical, sexual and emotional abuse and where there...

Vaccination clinics in schools This page is for schools to better understand how a vaccination clinic is carried out. Use the table below to search for your school’s visit date. What happens before a vaccination clinic? The School Age Immunisation Service (SAIS) Admin team will send e-consent links to schools, families and young people along...

Welcome to Sapphire Lodge at the Becton Centre where we have places for 10 young people aged 13-18 who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties. We are an open adolescent unit offering mental health care for adolescents with a serious mental illness, who require hospital admission. Most young people come to us through planned or...

The Children’s SARC (Sexual Assault Referral Centre) is part of the Safeguarding Support Unit at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. We provide a child and adolescent friendly environment for 0-18 year olds from across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw who have been victims of sexual assault or rape. Forensic examination can be carried out by specially trained doctors in...

Who are school nurses? School nurses are specialist community public health nurses (SCPHNs) who work with school-aged children and young people and their families to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce inequalities and vulnerabilities. They are Nursing and Midwifery Council registered nurses or midwives who have undertaken additional training and qualifications to become SCPHNs....

Welcome to the School Teaching Team, a Sheffield City Council service based in the hospital. We are a team of fully qualified professionals who provide educational support to school aged children who have been in hospital for more than three days. How we support you and your child The School Teaching Team will, in consultation...

What is the Sensory Service? The Sensory Service is a multi-disciplinary team based at the Ryegate Children’s Centre in Sheffield. We aim to help parents, carers, school staff and young people to have a better understanding of sensory processing and how this impacts on every day life. We provide information and advice on how to...

Youth clinic walk-in services are available for anyone aged 18 and under. There is no lower age limit. These clinics offer free and confidential access to information and advice on any sexual health issue as well as a full range of contraception, testing & treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and support for pregnancy options...

About the Sleep Service Sheffield Children’s Sleep Service is a specialist centre for children’s sleep medicine, one of the largest in the UK. We work with children aged between one to 16 years of age with chronic sleep disorders, who have already been seen by their GP or at another hospital. We diagnose and treat...

Sheffield Children’s Hospital is the Principal Treatment Centre for children and teenagers with cancer taking referrals from within South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Derbyshire. The Oncology and Haematology Unit has a specialist 16 bedded ward (Ward 6) and a dedicated Haematology and Oncology Centre for children and young people with cancer. Clinicians The care of...

The special schools therapy team is made up of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy assistants. We specialise in supporting children and young people attending special schools and their families. We work together to help children achieve their full physical potential, promote independence and support families in caring for their children. Your first appointment If your...

Equipment we may use to transfer your child. The size and weight of your baby/child will be taken into account when we decide what equipment to bring with us to transport them.

Who we are   Our team is made up of clerical support staff, Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and Speech and Language Therapists.    Who we see   We work with children with speech, language, and communication needs, and/or eating, drinking, or swallowing difficulties, from 0 years to their 16th birthday.    We do not provide professional support for...

Our Spinal Service sees more than 3000 patients a year and performs more than 100 procedures. We accept referrals for any young person aged up to 16-years-old from all over the UK and Ireland and are part of the region’s paediatric major trauma centre. We provide a 24-hour spinal on call service for trauma and...

The paediatric orthopaedic team offers a comprehensive service to children from Sheffield and the surrounding areas, as well as national and international patients. Treatment is available for all children up to the age of 16 who have sustained sporting injuries. Treating athletes Sheffield is a major sporting city with the National Diving Centre and English...

The Supportive Treatment And Recovery service is known as the STAR team, part of Sheffield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).  The service assesses and supports children and young people under 18 who need extra help after coming to hospital because of their mental health. Who is in the STAR team? The STAR team...

Our Surgery Department sees children with a vast range of conditions. We are highly specialised in a number of specific surgeries and patients from all over the world come to us for some treatments. Our specialties include: trauma and orthopaedics neurosurgery spinal surgery ear, nose and throat burns/plastic surgery oral and maxillofacial ophthalmology paediatric surgery...