Job summary
Employer heading
Infant Feeding Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a Centre of excellence in specialist healthcare for women, children, and their families in the West Midlands.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated nurse to join our infant feeding team who have a vision to develop and maintain high standards of care for women, children, and young people. The role requires the individual to have advanced experience of working with mothers and children’s and supporting feeding. The individual will need to be enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate about good quality care for women, children, and young people. We are developing our Infant Feeding Team at BCH to provide the best possible infant feeding advice and support to families.
We currently have two fixed term vacancies, one full time post 37.5hrs for 20 months and one 22.5hrs per week post for 12 months.
The post holder will be working as part of the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Infant Feeding Team, contributing to all aspects of the service, but focusing on infant feeding support at Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced registered Nurse who:
· Has specialist knowledge of the Baby friendly initiative and can help support the implementation of standards.
· Has a keen interest in ensuring high standards of care and support for patients who are breastfeeding their babies
· Will provide expert knowledge, support, and advice to staff across the trust and be happy to deliver education in a classroom setting
· Will provide direct support to patients with feeding problems as required
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
- Registered MidwifeNurse Degree in Midwifery/Nursing or relevant subject
Desirable criteria
- Additional Breastfeeding qualification eg IBCLC, LLL leader, NCT/BfN Breastfeeding Counsellor Breastfeeding and Relationship Building (BF77) Train the Trainer (BF85)
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in acute and critical care Recent experience in supporting infant feeding in a neonatal unit or paediatric hospital setting Knowledge of current national initiatives and recommendations regarding feeding for infants and young children in maternity care Knowledge of BFI requirements/standards Knowledge of: breastfeeding physiology, management, support and promotion Able to work in a team Passionate about supporting infant feeding Experience of teaching and mentoring
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to evaluate and assesss breastfeeding Extensive infant feeding knowledge Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Practice with others as well as working reflectively Participation in evaluation and audit
Personal skills
Desirable criteria
- Must be flexible and adaptable Organised with excellent time management Communicate appropriately/sensitively when assessing/giving feedback to staff Use appropriate language with mothers Ability to work as a member of a team Be a reflective practitioner with a strong desire for personal professional development.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Rebecca Clague
- Job title
- Infant Feeding Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 3338049
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