Infant feeding Support Worker

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Band 3 Infant Feeding Support Worker in Ipswich. The role focuses on providing infant feeding advice and support to families with newborns during the early postnatal period.

The post supports UNICEF Baby Friendly standards and works closely with midwifery and the broader healthcare team to ensure high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a maternity or infant feeding setting is desirable.
• Willingness to learn and follow clinical guidelines relevant to breastfeeding.

Responsibilities

• Support the Infant Feeding Lead in planning, implementing and maintaining UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards.
• Maintain knowledge of clinical and public health guidelines relevant to breastfeeding agendas.
• Attend induction, mandatory and statutory training.
• Meet direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of a Registered Midwife.
• Uphold high standards of patient care in line with Trust policies and guidelines.
• Work as a team member of the midwifery and wider multi-professional healthcare team.
• Operate within MSW boundaries, supporting junior colleagues and referring to the Registered Midwife as appropriate.

Job description

Are you passionate about breastfeeding and supporting close families and their babies? Are you enthusiastic about working with others to provide feeding support over the first few weeks of life?

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Ipswich hospital, ESNEFT to join the Maternity Infant Feeding Team as a Band 3 Support Worker provide infant feeding advice and support to families with newborn babies, to help them get their feeding journey off to the best start and continuing to provide ongoing support in the early postnatal period.

This is a full-time position, but job share will be considered for the right candidate.

The advert might close earlier if sufficient amount applications received.

• The post holder will support the Infant Feeding Lead in planning, implementation and maintenance of UNICEF baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards.
• The post holder will have working knowledge of clinical and public health guidelines relevant to local and national breastfeeding agendas.
• To meet the needs of the Trust with regard to Induction, mandatory and statutory training
• To meet the direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of a Registered Midwife.
• To ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines
• To work as an effective member of the midwifery and wider multi-professional healthcare team.
• To work within the boundaries of the role of the MSW supporting more junior colleagues as required and refer to the Registered Midwife as appropriate.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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