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Are you passionate about breastfeeding and supporting close and loving relationships between families and their babies? Can you work flexibly to support families to achieve their infant feeding goals? Are you enthusiastic about working with others to provide feeding support over the first few weeks of life?

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Birmingham Women's to join the Maternity Infant Feeding Team to deliver Infant Feeding support across Maternity and the Trust’s BFI accreditation.

The role will mainly be supporting families at Birmingham Women's but will also include assisting the Infant Feeding Team with audit, training and parent education.

The applicant must be passionate about breastfeeding and supporting new parent/s to achieve their feeding goals. They must have experience in supporting infant feeding and a recognised qualification in breastfeeding support such as BfN, NCT, peer support,  BFI training (in trust or directly with BFI) or extensive experience with supporting infant feeding.

Hours will include Monday to Friday 12.00-20.00 and/or Saturday and Sundays 07.15-20.15. Part time 30 hours available.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, predominantly on the Postnatal Wards at Birmingham Women’s Hospital, the post holder will work alongside other staff to provide additional feeding support to mothers and babies to help them achieve their feeding goals. The role also includes supporting the Infant Feeding Team to maintain Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation, participating in conducting audit and other tasks as directed by the Infant Feeding Lead.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.