Infant Feeding Maternity Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Understand the barriers to breastfeeding, supporting and empowering women to overcome them.
• Support staff with specialist infant feeding issues, providing up to date evidence-based information beyond their own knowledge and experience.
• Provide a positive role model to colleagues, coaching and teaching staff, women and their families as required.
• Provide specialist breastfeeding support in other clinical areas when required.
• Support and deputise for the Infant Feeding Lead in his/her absence in the running of the Breastfeeding Clinic for complex feeding issues

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Basic Education to GCSE level Maths and English Grade 4-9 or equivalent
• Breastfeeding Qualification: Diploma level (Dip HE Breastfeeding Counselling) or IBCLC
• Completed UNICEF BFI UK Building Relationships Course
• Completed UNICEF BFI UK Audit Tool Training
• Has completed training in observation of maternal vital signs and can complete MEOWS chart and scoring accurately

Experience

Essential

• Experience of implementing and auditing UNICEF BFI standards
• Extensive experience in lactation support and breastfeeding counselling
• Experience facilitating adult learning
• Experience of working in a busy maternity clinical setting

Desirable

• Ability to analyse highly complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them;

Technical Skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse highly complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them;
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals;
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including proven listening and communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including proven listening and communication skills;

Desirable

• A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority, responsibility and accountability;

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Mary's Maternity Hospital

St Mary's Road

Poole

BH15 4LH

Employer's website

https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)