Job summary
37.5 hours per week. An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Plymouth Public Health Nursing Service as the designated Infant Feeding Lead.
The post holder will provide strategic leadership for specialist infant feeding and healthy weight initiatives within Plymouth. The key focus of the role will be to lead the development and implementation of Infant Feeding policies within LSW, including the maintenance of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation,
The post holder will work closely with Commissioners, Midwifery, Public Health Nursing, Family Hubs, Children's Social Care and GPs to ensure a consistent message and approach to infant feeding and support development of Infant Feeding policies across the community.
The post holder will also lead on the provision of specialist breast feeding support to women with complex breast-feeding needs and be competent to advise senior decision makers about this area of expertise. They will also need to tailor these messages for delivery to all members of the community, including those in under-served communities.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to the infant feeding agenda across the Plymouth community, demonstrating management and leadership qualities and skills.
Acquire and maintain UNICEF BFI accreditation for LSW and support this across the community.
Develop, implement, and monitor an education programme in line with UNICEF BFI principles as well as Department of Health (DOH) and National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance.
Interpret national guidelines, policy and procedures relating to infant feeding and incorporate these into local plans.
Value differences and individuality, showing respect to all when supporting women and colleagues with infant feeding.
Encourage and develop colleagues to make effective, decisions in partnership with families,
Maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders particularly around all aspects of infant feeding.
Contribute towards the ongoing development of the Plymouth Best Start for Life/Family Hub programme, ensuring safe and high-quality services with processes in place for continuous improvement.
Supervise staff regarding the implementation and management of the faltering growth policy.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will
provide strategic leadership for specialist infant feeding and healthy weight
initiatives within Plymouth. The key focus of the role will be to lead the
development and implementation of Infant Feeding policies within LSW, including
the maintenance of the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation and to support others
across the system to achieve this. The post holder will also lead on the
provision of specialist breast feeding support to women with complex breast-feeding
needs.
Please see full Job description and person spec in the supporting documents file.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will
provide strategic leadership for specialist infant feeding and healthy weight
initiatives within Plymouth. The key focus of the role will be to lead the
development and implementation of Infant Feeding policies within LSW, including
the maintenance of the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation and to support others
across the system to achieve this. The post holder will also lead on the
provision of specialist breast feeding support to women with complex breast-feeding
needs.
Please see full Job description and person spec in the supporting documents file.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with NMC
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor (HV) degree qualification
- Evidence of relevant continued professional development in the last 2 years
- International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant or currently working towards this.
Desirable
- BFI courses around Breastfeeding and relationship building.
- UNICEF Train the Trainer
- Mentoring /teaching qualification
- V150/300 nurse prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of breast feeding and passionate commitment to UNICEF BFI and its best practice standards.
- Understanding of local infant feeding and strategic weight management plans.
- Knowledge of Plymouths Early Help system and plans to develop this.
- Experience of specialist infant feeding skills
- Experience of providing Child Protection Supervision.
- Knowledge of health inequalities within Plymouth.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with NMC
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor (HV) degree qualification
- Evidence of relevant continued professional development in the last 2 years
- International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant or currently working towards this.
Desirable
- BFI courses around Breastfeeding and relationship building.
- UNICEF Train the Trainer
- Mentoring /teaching qualification
- V150/300 nurse prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of breast feeding and passionate commitment to UNICEF BFI and its best practice standards.
- Understanding of local infant feeding and strategic weight management plans.
- Knowledge of Plymouths Early Help system and plans to develop this.
- Experience of specialist infant feeding skills
- Experience of providing Child Protection Supervision.
- Knowledge of health inequalities within Plymouth.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
