Job summary
- Main area
- Infant Feeding Maternity
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term 12 months only)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 284-24-6472377-DWNH
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Women's Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Infant Feeding Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Certificate Level 3 in Childcare/Healthcare or equivalent
- Accredited breastfeeding support qualification such as NCT/BfN or 3-day BFI breastfeeding management or BFI compliant training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with families to support breastfeeding
- Evidence of working within an NHS maternity care setting
- Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills
- Proficient IT skills for documentation of activity
- Approachable and flexible attitude to work
- Organised approach to work
- Infant feeding clinical knowledge - practice and management
- Understanding of BFI maternity standards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leanne Cruickshanks
- Job title
- Maternity Infant Feeding Lead Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
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