Infant Feeding Support Worker

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you passionate about breastfeeding and supporting close and loving relationships between families and their babies? Can you work flexibly to support families to achieve their infant feeding goals? Are you enthusiastic about working with others to provide feeding support over the first few weeks of life?

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Birmingham Women's to join the Maternity Infant Feeding Team to deliver Infant Feeding support across Maternity and the Trust's BFI accreditation.

The role will mainly be supporting families at Birmingham Women's but will also include assisting the Infant Feeding Team with audit, training and parent education.

The applicant must be passionate about breastfeeding and supporting new parent/s to achieve their feeding goals. They must have experience in supporting infant feeding and a recognised qualification in breastfeeding support such as BfN, NCT, peer support, BFI training (in trust or directly with BFI) or extensive experience with supporting infant feeding.

Hours will include Monday to Friday 12.00-20.00 and/or Saturday and Sundays 07.15-20.15. Full / part time hours available.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, predominantly on the Postnatal Wards at Birmingham Women's Hospital, the post holder will work alongside other staff to provide additional feeding support to mothers and babies to help them achieve their feeding goals. The role also includes supporting the Infant Feeding Team to maintain Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation, participating in conducting audit and other tasks as directed by the Infant Feeding Lead.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Date posted

18 December 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

284-23-5646225-DWPR

Job locations

Birmingham Womens

Birmingham

B15 2TG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Certificate Level 3 in Childcare/Healthcare or equivalent
Accredited breastfeeding support qualification such as NCT/BfN or 3-day BFI breastfeeding management or BFI compliant training

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with families to support breastfeeding
Evidence of working within an NHS maternity care setting
Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills
Proficient IT skills for documentation of activity
Approachable and flexible attitude to work
Organised approach to work
Infant feeding clinical knowledge - practice and management
Understanding of BFI maternity standards

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Certificate Level 3 in Childcare/Healthcare or equivalent
Accredited breastfeeding support qualification such as NCT/BfN or 3-day BFI breastfeeding management or BFI compliant training

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with families to support breastfeeding
Evidence of working within an NHS maternity care setting
Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills
Proficient IT skills for documentation of activity
Approachable and flexible attitude to work
Organised approach to work
Infant feeding clinical knowledge - practice and management
Understanding of BFI maternity standards

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).

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