Job overview

Saint Mary's Managed Clinical Service  is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Midwife with a special interest in infant feeding to lead our Infant Feeding Team at our Wythenshawe site. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to offer early interventions for families experiencing urgent or complex feeding challenges during the initial postnatal period.

You will be a specialist in your field, with extensive experience supporting families with infant feeding.

A key element of this role is to work together with the Infant Feeding Teams across Saint Mary's MCS to lead the service in achieving BFI Accreditation. 

The post holder will work alongside an established team to offer support to the maternity team and families. You will collate data, and formulate associated action plans to support and  improve care and service provision within infant feeding. You will be required to lead a programme of training to support the maternity team to maintain their knowledge regarding infant feeding. This training may be face to face or  virtual.

There is an expectation within your role, to maintain  your clinical skills to support the maternity wards as required.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.