Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Specialist Nursing Team within Neonates and Paediatrics at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. We are seeking a passionate and knowledgeable individual to lead and support infant feeding practices across our Neonatal and Children's services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promote and support evidence-based infant feeding management.
- Ensure all staff are equipped to support families' infant feeding choices both in hospital and at home.
- Maintain and implement pathways aligned with UNICEF Baby Friendly standards, including Neonatal Standards and Hospital-Based Children's Standards.
- Develop, implement, and audit relevant pathways, policies, and processes related to infant feeding and newborn care.
- Provide training, guidance, and foster effective communication across the division to support a positive learning environment.
Apply now to join our team and make difference in the lives of mums and children!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience in infant feeding, developed through training and practice
- Knowledge of governance structure
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Degree or post graduate diploma
- ENB 998 or similar teaching qualification
Further Training
Desirable
- Completion of UNICEF Baby Friendly courses: Breastfeeding and Relationship Building, Train the Trainer
- Embedding Neonatal standards into Neonatal care
- Hospital Based Standards
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience at a Band 6
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary tea
- Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
- Experience of managing and developing colleagues
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence in multiagency working
- Experience of working with external agencies
Desirable
- Involvement in Breastfeeding support/speciality eg. Breastfeeding champion, knowledge / involvement with Baby Friendly assessments or champion role
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to deal with highly sensitive and complex information
- The ability to influence others
- Able to work independently and as a part of a team
- Have a good insight into self and others and vice versa
- Ability to delegate appropriately
- Computer skills
- Leadership skills
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking clinical audit
Contractual Requirements
Essential
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience in infant feeding, developed through training and practice
- Knowledge of governance structure
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Degree or post graduate diploma
- ENB 998 or similar teaching qualification
Further Training
Desirable
- Completion of UNICEF Baby Friendly courses: Breastfeeding and Relationship Building, Train the Trainer
- Embedding Neonatal standards into Neonatal care
- Hospital Based Standards
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience at a Band 6
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary tea
- Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
- Experience of managing and developing colleagues
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence in multiagency working
- Experience of working with external agencies
Desirable
- Involvement in Breastfeeding support/speciality eg. Breastfeeding champion, knowledge / involvement with Baby Friendly assessments or champion role
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to deal with highly sensitive and complex information
- The ability to influence others
- Able to work independently and as a part of a team
- Have a good insight into self and others and vice versa
- Ability to delegate appropriately
- Computer skills
- Leadership skills
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking clinical audit
Contractual Requirements
Essential
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
