Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-EK-37-A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum pro rata incl. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/05/2024
Employer heading
Infant Feeding Band 6 Midwife
Band 6
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join the Infant Feeding Team at Wexham Park Hospital.
As a band 6 midwife and member of the infant feeding team, you will be promoting good infant feeding practices, throughout the unit to women and maternity staff, during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. Whilst supporting the specialist Infant feeding lead midwives, in the provision of advice expertise and education, to maintain the baby friendly accreditation within the hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post requires the individual to be able to influence practice within all clinical areas. An understanding of current issues in infant feeding, locally, nationally, as well as government policies is required. Knowledge and experience of the requirements for accreditation for the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) is essential. You will have a desire/ an aspiration to progress with clinical practice and happy to embrace change.
You must be sensitive to the needs of individual mothers and their babies. You need to be flexible and able to work as part of a team. Good communication skills, including written and presentation skills, are essential. The ability to teach, medical staff, trained staff and untrained staff is a requirement.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- All midwife practitioners will be Registered Midwives, accountable for their own midwifery practice and will be able to fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions with current protocols and principles of care in compliance with the NMC’s Midwives Rules and code of Midwifery Practice.
- This midwife will be at least 2 years qualified, but she/he will be expected to continue with post-registration education and development to become a confident midwife able to provide care with the women either in the community or hospital environment.
- To support implantation and evaluation of a programme of care aimed specifically at childbearing women for infant feeding.
- To be actively involved in women and midwifery education.
- Support breast feeding clinic and tongue tie service.
- Keep up to date with Infant feeding developments by attending conferences, course and work towards completing the baby friendly training.
- Provide education for other Midwives in all aspects of infant feeding during pregnancy.
- Be Responsible for monitoring and evaluating the infant statistics throughout the Trust.
- Work closely with Maternity Department.
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Join the infant feeding team in running clinics in community, the well-baby clinic Monday to Friday and will help prevent re-admissions by establishing infant feeding plans.
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They will work closely with MDT, facilitate antenatal classes and provide high quality infant feeding support to new families.
Person specification
written
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- 2 years qualified or more
Desirable criteria
- Infant feeding experience
- BFI training/courses
- lactation consultants qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leanne Donlevy
- Job title
- Matron for Inpatient Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006154563
- Additional information
Please contact the Infant feeding team lead midwives if you would like any further details:
Samantha Brazier ([email protected])
Ann Matthews ([email protected])
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