Infant Feeding Peer Support Worker

Beighton; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is recruiting a temporary Infant Feeding Peer Support worker to join the citywide Family Hub teams. You will work alongside Midwives, Health Visitors and Early Years teams to support breastfeeding journeys across the city.

The role focuses on encouraging and supporting breastfeeding decisions, engaging mums in groups and clinics, and promoting health campaigns. Training is mandatory, with flexible working options considered.

Qualifications

• Motivated individual with enthusiastic attitude to breastfeeding.
• Must have at least one positive breastfeeding experience.
• Attend mandatory training and job-specific training.
• Willing to engage mums in groups and health clinics.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and flexibility for unpaid caring responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Offer peer support to all pregnant women and mothers on feeding choices in line with UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative.
• Engage mums in groups and during health clinics.
• Promote health campaigns and activities.
• Work with midwives, health visitors and Early Years teams.
• Attend safeguarding checks and maintain professional standards.

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

We are looking to recruit one temporary Infant Feeding Peer Support worker, working as part of the local Sheffield Family Hub teams, based across the city. You will work alongside Midwives, Health Visitors and Early Years teams.

The role is to offer peer support to all pregnant women and mothers with babies around their feeding choice in line with UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative.

Our aim is to ensure that all children have the best start in life, and good feeding practice and emotional atonement and bonding to support this. You will also promote health campaigns and activity.

Your role therefore is to encourage and support women to consider breastfeeding and then to support her to maintain her breastfeeding journey as long as she wishes to. Part of your role is to engage mums in groups as well as via attendance at health clinics.

We are looking for a motivated individual who has an enthusiastic attitude to breastfeeding and have had at least one positive breastfeeding experience themselves.

You will be expected to attend mandatory training as well as training in line with the job role.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on ourSheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyoneand where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.