Infant Feeding Specialist - Greenwich 0-4 Service

Job description

Job responsibilities

Planning and Organising

Working with Locality Lead and Infant Feeding Lead, ensure the ongoing maintenance of the UNICEF BFI standards in community settings.

Work with Locality Lead and Infant Feeding Lead to develop and promote standardised evidence-based professional practice in relation to infant feeding across the Greenwich 0-4 Childrens Public Health Service

Chair the Greenwich 0-4 Infant feeding working group, planning meetings including preparation of agendas, taking notes and ensuring timely completion of relevant actions.

To organise available resources to meet local/national targets and UNICEF BFI criteria, re-prioritising as necessary in response to evolving need.

Effectively manage own time and prioritise workload in order to achieve agreed objectives and targets.

In conjunction with Locality Lead and Infant Feeding Lead, regularly review progress towards agreed work objectives, providing written and verbal reports as required

Clinical

Maintain own clinical skills and practice by keeping up to date with current evidence-base and providing specialist advice and support to women who are experiencing feeding problems e.g. tongue tie; mastitis, poor weight gain.

Promote and support best practice standards across all local initiatives and challenge ineffective practice as necessary with the support of the team leaders.

To act as a key resource for providing clinical support to all relevant staff on infant feeding issues locally

Education and Training

With support from Locality Lead, Infant Feeding Lead and Professional Development Lead, design and deliver training in infant feeding and evaluate the effectiveness of training delivered.

To work in conjunction with Professional Development Lead, Infant Feeding Lead and Locality Leads to deliver breastfeeding management training to all relevant staff members.

Develop a training curriculum that incorporates best practice guidelines and promotes motivational approaches such as use of ante-natal and post-natal conversations

To work with the Professional Development Lead and Locality Leads to develop mechanisms for implementing, monitoring and managing clinical supervised practice amongst all relevant staff members including clinical supervision for staff supporting breastfeeding drop-in groups.

To provide ongoing regular training updates for staff as necessary, to include practical skills updates.

Service Development

To support the development and sustainability of local initiatives that encourage initiation and continuation of breastfeeding in the community with special emphasis on areas where breastfeeding rates are currently low.

Participate in the development of local pathways e.g. tongue tie

Participate in reviewing and updating the Greenwich 0-4 Breast Feeding Policy and Infant feeding resources

Participate in work to embed Baby Friendly principles within wider service delivery e.g. antenatal pathway.

Research and Audit/Clinical Governance

To ensure implementation of regular audit to determine baseline and assess progress toward/maintenance of BFI Standards.

Evaluate client satisfaction at the breast feeding drop in clinics.

To establish and implement effective methods of postnatal infant feeding data collection to inform national/local targets and future practice.

Work with Locality Leads and Infant Feeding Lead to interpret key documents and research papers on infant nutrition into local action, ensuring good communications to all relevant staff.

To act as a key resource for providing support to all relevant staff on infant feeding issues locally.

To participate in research as necessary.

To work in accordance with Professional Code of Conduct and Bromley Healthcare Policy documents.

To access Clinical Supervision.

Partnership working

To demonstrate partnership working across organisational and professional boundaries to promote a seamless care pathway through pregnancy, postnatal period and early years.

Represent BHC on the Midwifery Services Liaison Committee with line manager

Membership of the London Infant Feeding Network

To work closely with key partners to promote a positive attitude to breastfeeding across the borough, this includes local baby cafes and children and family centres.

To work closely with all neighbouring Maternity Services to ensure a co-ordinated approach to UNIFEF BFI is adopted.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.

Desirable

• NMC registered Nurse
• IBCLC/Breastfeeding Counsellor
• UNICEF BFI Practitioner Qualification
• Mentoring/teaching qualification

Training

Essential

• Evidence of further training in Infant feeding

Desirable

• UNICEF BFI Close and Loving Relationships
• UNICEF BFI Train the Trainer
• UNICEF BFI Audit training

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively
• Experience of delivering training/groups
• Ability to use information technology systems and programmes effectively
• Problem solving skills
• Able to organise and prioritise workload
• Demonstrates ability to work as part of a team
• Demonstrates leadership skills and experience

Desirable

• Ability to analyse and interpret audit, information and research
• Awareness of research and further study

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the public health role of contemporary health visiting and working in community setting Evidence based practice
• Knowledge of UNICEF BFI and the principles
• Knowledge of wider feeding issues

Experience

Essential

• Experience of Health Visiting Services
• Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Experience of planning and organising services to meet local needs
• Knowledge and experience of working with families with safeguarding concerns, in line with local and national protocols and guidance
• Recent experience of working in a community based setting
• extensive clinical experience of supporting women to breastfeed
• extensive clinical experience in Infant feeding

Desirable

• Experience of co-ordinating and analysing clinical data
• Experience of quality improvement

personal qualities

Essential

• Flexible approach to meeting service & client needs
• Motivated to provide a high standard of care

Information Technology

Essential

• IT skills required to support undertaking audit/ collate findings and prepare reports and teaching resources

Other

Essential

• Full UK driving licence and a car for work purposes

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Bromley Healthcare CIC

Address

Brookhill Children’s Centre

Woolwich

SE18 6BD

Employer's website

http://www.bromleyhealthcare.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)