Maternity Infant Feeding Advisor

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital and Charity; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a post holder to provide feeding support to families and babies, helping them achieve feeding goals. The role involves working within the multi-professional team and contributing to maintaining Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation.

The post holder will participate in audits and other tasks as directed by the Infant Feeding Lead to support high-quality, family-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Provide feeding support to families and babies to help them achieve feeding goals.
• Support the Infant Feeding Team to maintain Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation.
• Participate in conducting audits and other tasks as directed by the Infant Feeding Lead.

Job description

The post holder will work alongside other members of the multi professional team to provide additional feeding support to families and babies to help them achieve their feeding goals.

The role also includes supporting the Infant Feeding Team to maintain Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation, participating in conducting audit and other tasks as directed by the Infant Feeding Lead.

The post holder will work alongside other members of the multi professional team to provide additional feeding support to families and babies to help them achieve their feeding goals.

The role also includes supporting the Infant Feeding Team to maintain Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation, participating in conducting audit and other tasks as directed by the Infant Feeding Lead.

See Job description and Personal Specification attached for full details

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Leanne Cruickshanks Job title: BW Maternity Infant Feeding Lead Midwife Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07920245866

Telephone: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 0900-1500