Infant Feeding Support Worker

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Infant Feeding Team at Liverpool Women's Hospital as a Band 3 Infant Feeding Support Worker. This role offers a rewarding opportunity to support families at a crucial time and to be part of a passionate, multi-professional team delivering high-quality, compassionate infant-feeding care. The post holder will support the provision of a family-centred maternity service, helping to ensure optimal care for pregnant people, women, their babies, and their families. Working closely with the Infant Feeding Teamas well as midwifery and neonatal teams and external partner agencies, you will play a key role in promoting and supporting infant feeding across the Trust. You will provide high-quality, caring, and compassionate support under the direction, though not direct supervision, of registered professionals within the team. This includes offering practical and emotional support to families, contributing to education and promotion of infant feeding, and supporting the wider maternity and neonatal services in line with Trust values and standards. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a caring nature, strong communication skills, and an interest in infant feeding and maternity care, who is keen to develop their experience within a specialist service.

Main duties of the job

The Maternity Support Worker (MSW) will undertake high-quality, caring, and compassionate personal care and associated duties under the direction, though not direct supervision, of a registered professional. The post holder will work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, supporting the delivery of safe and effective maternity care.

The primary role of the MSW is to assist, support, and work collaboratively with the midwife and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide a safe, holistic, and woman-centred approach to care for women, their babies, and families.

The midwife is ultimately responsible and accountable for the care of the mother and her new-born(s). Under the direction of the midwife or Registered Nurse (RN), and following completion of relevant training and competency assessment, the MSW will assist with and provide appropriate care activities in line with Trust policies, professional standards, and service protocols.

About us

Liverpool Women's NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women's Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes usthespecialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

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