Infant Feeding Lead Midwife / Nurse

NHS; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as an Infant Feeding Lead in Maternity Services. This role is essential for promoting best practices in infant feeding and ensuring adherence to the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative standards. You will be responsible for delivering expert advice, developing training programs, and providing individualized care. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on health outcomes within the community while working in a supportive and inclusive environment. If you are passionate about infant feeding and want to contribute to an outstanding maternity service, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Excellent pension scheme

On-site Nurseries

On-site staff cafes

On-site parking

Support in career development

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• Must have expertise in infant feeding and public health promotion.
• Experience in providing clinical support and developing training strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and evaluation of infant feeding standards.
• Provide specialist support and training for multidisciplinary teams.
• Monitor progress towards achieving BFI accreditation.

Skills

Infant Feeding Expertise

Public Health Promotion

Clinical Specialist Support

Training Strategy Development

Education

Relevant Nursing or Midwifery Qualification

Job description

Job summary

Do you have a passion for Infant Feeding? If so this is the job for you! Team ASPH is looking for a passionate, knowledgeable infant feeding lead for our Maternity Services. This is an organisational role for developing and maintaining high standards of infant feeding across the Ashford and St Peter's Hospital Trust.

The successful candidate will have a key role leading and promoting best practice, progressing and maintaining the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative standards. An expectation of the role is to be an 'expert advisor' for colleagues and deliver a multi-disciplinary education and training programme. We want you to be present and available to deliver women-centred care providing feeding support and advice.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. It is a very exciting time to be joining us at ASPH and we would love to hear from you if you would like to join us on our journey in becoming an outstanding maternity service.

For further information please contact Jo Doumouchtsi, Consultant Midwife Public Health ([e-mail])

https://asph-careers.org/maternity/

Main duties of the job

• Take the lead for planning, setting, maintaining and evaluating agreed standards for infant feeding including developing strategies for achieving and sustaining the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative status.
• Promote the public health benefits of breastfeeding and lead to improve the continuation of breastfeeding in line with Baby Friendly Initiative Standards.
• Provide clinical specialist infant feeding support and advice where required alongside existing workforce using expert knowledge and judgement to provide individualised care/support packages.
• Ensure there is a training strategy to provide foundation and updates for all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Identify the specific educational needs of individual parents and facilitate meeting those needs through the provision of specialist education, care and support.
• Contribute to the delivery of infant feeding training programmes and workshops for health professionals and women.
• Implement and embed clinical practice changes which demonstrate evidence-based individualised care and detection of emergent themes within clinical areas through localised robust governance processes.
• Work in partnership with local services and providers to increase breastfeeding rates as part of improving health outcomes.
• Monitor and audit progress towards achieving the standards required to achieve BFI accreditation.

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit: www.asph-careers.org

Date posted: 10 April 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £48,270 to £54,931 a year pa inc. HCAS

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 323-NM6160-JN

Job location: St Peter's Hospital, Guildford Road, Chertsey, KT16 0PZ