Job summary
Employer heading
Infant Feeding Support Worker
Band 4
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
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, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Infant Feeding Support Worker
Division: Women, Children & Young People
Care Group: Women's & Children's Service
Band: 4
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata
We are recruiting for an Infant Feeding Support Worker who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and 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.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- Level 2 Health and Social Care or educated to GCSE level
Desirable criteria
- Care Certificate
- Infant Feeding qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Infant feeding support experience
Desirable criteria
- Work within healthcare setting
- Health Education provision
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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
Applicant requirements
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
- Hayley Clinton
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Infant Feeding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07376103568
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