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Help us deliver the best infant feeding support to women who birth at Warrington Hospital.  

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Maternity Services at Warrington and Halton Hospital NHS Trust. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals who are passionate about infant feeding.

As an infant feeding peer support worker at WHH,  you will be based on our mixed antenatal and postnatal ward, providing hands-on infant feeding support. You will work closely with the infant feeding specialist midwife, peer support workers, midwives and maternity support workers to ensure that women are provided with the best possible start to their infant feeding journey and are well prepared for discharge home. 

You will be required to possess an NVQ Level 3 in care and have experience in infant feeding 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 role, please contact:

Natalie Starkey, Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife via [email protected] 

Samantha Nichols, Antenatal and Postnatal Services Matron via [email protected]

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as an integral part of 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 in collaboration with the infant feeding specialist midwife to implement & uphold the UNICEF BFI standards on the combined antenatal and postnatal ward. They will deliver evidence-based infant feeding support and have meaningful feeding conversations in both the antenatal and postnatal period. The post holder will work with the infant feeding lead to increase breastfeeding initiation rates, by promoting breastfeeding in the antenatal period and providing excellent hands-on infant feeding support on the postnatal ward. The role will include the gathering of information on needs and the views of women, retrieving & managing data and information.

The post holder will be willing to undertake training courses to enhance their existing knowledge. They will strive to support our families with the most complex feeding needs and reduce the impact of the biggest risk factors for feeding related issues and readmission. The post holder will be based on the postnatal ward and will provide specialist support to midwives, women and families to ensure a successful start to an infant feeding journey. The post holder will comply with the Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Trust infant feeding guidelines and policies.

Working for our organisation

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.