Infant Feeding Maternity Support Worker

Job summary

Help us deliver the best in local maternity services.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Women's Health Division of Warrington and Halton Hospital NHS Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and flexible support worker to join in our team.

Main duties of the job

As an Infant Feeding Maternity Support Worker you will support to fully implement UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative enabling Warrington and Halton NHS Foundation Trust to achieve full accreditation. The Infant Feeding Maternity Support Worker will support our infant feeding team to deliver high quality, family-centred support to the population of Warrington & Halton.

As we work towards our Level 2 BFI Accreditation, the post holder will work closely with our Infant Feeding Lead, providing information, demonstrating good practices and working with families, which promotes and supports breastfeeding locally. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with staff and community services to implement & uphold the UNICEF BFI standards.

You will be required to possess an NVQ Level 3 in care and demonstrate excellent communication and caring skills to ensure our women and babies receive the highest quality of care. In return for you bringing your skills and commitment to the hospitals, we offer benefits including flexible working practices, good pay and conditions, membership of the NHS Pension Scheme and a fantastic range of training and development opportunities.

For more information about this opportunity please contact: Nikki Webb Maternity Ward Manager: Nikki.webb4 @nhs.net or Leanne Lawrenson Antenatal & Postnatal Matron: leanne.lawrenson@nhs.net

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.