Health Visitor - Infant Feeding

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a SCPHN Health Visitor to join our specialist infant feeding team. SCPHN qualification and current registration are essential, with opportunities for supervision and professional development within a supportive, baby-friendly Trust.

The role focuses on delivering high-quality infant feeding services, promoting breastfeeding, and working across Amber Valley, Erewash and South Derbyshire localities.

Qualifications

• SCPHN Health Visitor qualification and current registration are essential.
• Experience delivering infant feeding and breastfeeding support within community settings is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice to clinical teams within the 0-5 service.
• Manage a defined caseload of infants with complex feeding issues.
• Face-to-face work with families when required.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Family-focused communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Breastfeeding support

Education

SCPHN Health Visitor qualification

NMC registration

Job description

Are you a Health Visitor who is a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to further develop your skills?

Are you passionate about making a difference and improving outcomes for children and their families?

DCHS Children's Services have an exciting opportunity to offer a SCPHN Health Visitor to join our specialist infant feeding team

SCPHN qualification and current registration is essential to this role

You will be invested in our business, creating a culture of continuous improvement, where family welfare is at the heart of all you do.

DCHS Children's Services provide Health Visitors opportunities to further develop their career and we offer newly qualified Health Visitors excellent preceptorship, mentorship and supervision. All Health Visitors receive regular clinical and safeguarding supervision.

DCHS is a forward-thinking, supportive Trust, who are a baby-friendly, accredited organisation and achieved Outstanding CQC status

You will support the Specialist Infant Feeding Lead to deliver a high-quality specialist infant feeding service across Derbyshire, although the main area for delivery of clinical work will be Amber Valley, Erewash and South Derbyshire/ South Sales localities. The role focuses on promoting breastfeeding, supporting families with complex infant feeding needs, and strengthening multidisciplinary working across organisations and communities.

Key responsibilities include providing expert advice to clinical teams within the 0-5 service, managing a defined caseload of infants with complex feeding issues, and undertaking face-to-face work with families when required. You will also provide clinical supervision to infant feeding practitioners and help deliver UNICEF breastfeeding management and relationship training, alongside tailored refresher sessions for staff.

In addition, the role involves ongoing assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care programmes, as well as prescribing in line with the Nurse Prescribing Formulary.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.