Infant Feeding Support Worker

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Brompton; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Medway NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for an Infant Feeding Support Worker. You will join the Infant Feeding team to deliver high quality, family‑centred support to families across Medway and Swale, from pregnancy to six weeks postnatally, offering evidence‑based feeding advice.

In collaboration with the UNICEF BFI standards and the Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife, you will participate in training and shared care to ensure consistent, compassionate support for new parents.

Qualifications

• Deliver evidence-based infant feeding support to families.
• Work with UNICEF BFI standards and Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife.
• Willingness to undertake training to enhance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, family-centred infant feeding support.
• Collaborate with the Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife and multidisciplinary team.
• Support antenatal education, inpatient care, and postnatal guidance.

Skills

Infant feeding support

Family-centred care

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

We are recruiting for anInfant Feeding Support Worker who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest 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., The post holder will work as an integral part of our Infant Feeding team to deliver high quality, family-centred support to the population of Medway and Swale.

The Infant feeding team are externally funded by Medway Council as part of their Start for Life funding. The aim of our team is to support all families who have care at Medway hospital from pregnancy until 6 weeks postnatally. We offer support through antenatal education, specialist clinics, inpatient support, home visits and social group facilitation.

As we are a Level 3 BFI Accredited Trust, the post-holder will work in collaboration with the Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife to uphold the UNICEF BFI standards. They will deliver evidence based infant feeding support, and have meaningful feeding conversations in both the antenatal and postnatal period. They will be willing to undertake training courses to enhance their existing knowledge.

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.

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach