Specialist Nurse Infant Feeding
The closing date is 05 March 2026
Job summary
This is more than a job -- it's a chance to transform the start of a baby's life. As Neonatal Infant Feeding Lead at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, you will be the driving force behind exceptional, evidence-based infant feeding care across neonatal and children's services.
You will lead, inspire and empower clinical teams to deliver outstanding breastfeeding and infant feeding support, improving initiation and continuation rates and ensuring more babies leave hospital thriving on human milk. Working across the Level 2 Neonatal Unit, Transitional Care and Children's Services, you will shape pathways, influence practice and champion families at every stage of their journey.
A key leader in achieving and sustaining UNICEF Baby Friendly standards, you will design training, embed best practice, drive audit and quality improvement, and create a culture where excellence flourishes. You'll act as an expert clinician, educator and role model -- mentoring staff, influencing multidisciplinary teams and directly supporting families, including those with complex needs.
Autonomous, impactful and deeply rewarding, this role offers the rare opportunity to combine clinical expertise, leadership, education and service innovation -- all while making a lifelong difference to babies and their families.
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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Details
Date posted
19 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
214-W&C-7761642
Job locations
King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
Employer details
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
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