Job summary
Infant Feeding Support Worker
Division: Women, Children & Young People
Care Group: Women's & Children's Service
Band: 4
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 Per Annum/Pro Rata
Interview Date: 12-June-2025
We are recruiting for an Infant Feeding Support Workerwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
To ensure all women receive appropriate support and advice with their chosen method of feeding.
To support families to develop their relationship with their babies in the antenatal and postnatal period, to facilitate brain development and attachment
To work in collaboration with the Infant Feeding Lead and Support Midwife and assist them to give family centred support, and refer if appropriate
To help the Infant Feeding lead maintain the UNICEF standards throughout the trust
Offer specialist support and guidance to facilitate mothers to initiate and sustain breastfeeding - across a multitude of settings e.g. community, hospital, group settings and over the phone
Support mothers with complex breastfeeding needs e.g. multiple births, babies on NICU, pre-term babies.
Identify when feeding is not going well and refer to multidisciplinary services appropriately - e.g. specialist feeding clinic, health visiting, neonatal doctors
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Careby the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our sharedvisionis achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy -Patient First.Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into ourPatient Firstdeployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
OurBESTvalues underpinPatient Firstand are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure all women receive appropriate support and advice with their chosen method of feeding.
To support families to develop their relationship with their babies in the antenatal and postnatal period, to facilitate brain development and attachment
To work in collaboration with the Infant Feeding Lead and Support Midwife and assist them to give family centred support, and refer if appropriate
To help the Infant Feeding lead maintain the UNICEF standards throughout the trust
Offer specialist support and guidance to facilitate mothers to initiate and sustain breastfeeding - across a multitude of settings e.g. community, hospital, group settings and over the phone
Support mothers with complex breastfeeding needs e.g. multiple births, babies on NICU, pre-term babies.
Identify when feeding is not going well and refer to multidisciplinary services appropriately - e.g. specialist feeding clinic, health visiting, neonatal doctors
To support and/or facilitate breastfeeding support groups and provide antenatal and postnatal education
Working with antenatal women and their families to promote the service and the benefits of breastfeeding
Help collect data, statistics and feedback to use for audit and to improve the service
To provide face to face and telephone feeding support to families, up to 6 weeks post birth, both in the hospital setting and community setting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure all women receive appropriate support and advice with their chosen method of feeding.
To support families to develop their relationship with their babies in the antenatal and postnatal period, to facilitate brain development and attachment
To work in collaboration with the Infant Feeding Lead and Support Midwife and assist them to give family centred support, and refer if appropriate
To help the Infant Feeding lead maintain the UNICEF standards throughout the trust
Offer specialist support and guidance to facilitate mothers to initiate and sustain breastfeeding - across a multitude of settings e.g. community, hospital, group settings and over the phone
Support mothers with complex breastfeeding needs e.g. multiple births, babies on NICU, pre-term babies.
Identify when feeding is not going well and refer to multidisciplinary services appropriately - e.g. specialist feeding clinic, health visiting, neonatal doctors
To support and/or facilitate breastfeeding support groups and provide antenatal and postnatal education
Working with antenatal women and their families to promote the service and the benefits of breastfeeding
Help collect data, statistics and feedback to use for audit and to improve the service
To provide face to face and telephone feeding support to families, up to 6 weeks post birth, both in the hospital setting and community setting.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 2 Health and Social Care or educated to GCSE level
Desirable
- Care Certificate
- Infant Feeding qualification
Experience
Essential
- Infant feeding support experience
Desirable
- Work within healthcare setting
- Health Education provision
Skills
Essential
- Communication with both families and the multidisciplinary team
- Prioritisation of workload
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Full UK driving Licence and access to car
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 2 Health and Social Care or educated to GCSE level
Desirable
- Care Certificate
- Infant Feeding qualification
Experience
Essential
- Infant feeding support experience
Desirable
- Work within healthcare setting
- Health Education provision
Skills
Essential
- Communication with both families and the multidisciplinary team
- Prioritisation of workload
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Full UK driving Licence and access to car
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.
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).
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.
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).
