Infant Feeding Lead (Co-Ordinator Baby Friendly Accreditation)

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Infant Feeding Lead (Co-Ordinator Baby Friendly Accreditation)

Band 7

Main area: Specialist Midwives – WXH Grade Band 7 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 259-7125818WXH

Site: Whipps Cross Hospital Town: London Salary: £51,883 – £58,544 Per annum inc Salary period: Yearly Closing: 17/04/2025 23:59

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced enthusiastic individual to lead our infant feeding service at Whipps Cross Hospital in delivering high quality services to our clients and families.

The post-holder is expected to have a BSc or be working towards a BSc (completion within 6 months) or have an Infant feeding qualification from a voluntary organisation (BfN, NCT, ABM, LLL tutor or experienced counsellor).

NLS Course (or equivalent) with over 2 years’ experience.

You will have sound management skills, resilience, and the ability to meet the demands of a busy clinical service.

In this role, you will be expected to demonstrate a passion for promoting evidence-based practice, offer women continuity of care, and support women in every part of their infant feeding journey.

Main duties of the job

To provide management and leadership for infant feeding services within the hospital and community. As the expert lead for infant feeding, provide support and organise training to ensure that all staff and mothers at the Whipps Cross hospital and Community Midwifery services are supported with feeding their baby. This starts in the antenatal period and continues in the community for as long as families seek support with feeding their babies. As the Baby Friendly lead, the candidate will work with midwives in the attainment of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) level 3, networking with both internal and external stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate, and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachments below.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc or working towards BSc within 12 months
• Substantive experience in infant feeding
• Registered Midwife
• Management training
• Train the Trainer course
• Infant feeding qualification from a voluntary organisation
• (BfN, NCT, ABM, LLL tutor or experienced counsellor) NLS Course (or equivalent)

Experience

• Substantial time working as a Breastfeeding/Baby Feeding specialist or equivalent
• Facilitating training for others in breastfeeding management
• Experience of managing/leading a mother support service or coordinating Baby Friendly in a setting

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Baby Friendly initiative standards
• Knowledge of counselling skills
• Knowledge of teaching and learning

Skills

• Ability to work and communicate as part of the multidisciplinary team
• Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff and parents
• Ability to support mothers to feed their babies in a non-judgemental, empathetic, and mother-centred way
• Ability to prioritise in order to meet deadlines when writing reports
• Effectively carries out tasks related to audit and evaluating services

Management

• Ability to work with clinical staff and women
• Ability to plan, allocate and supervise others
• Ability to deal with operational issues
• Ability to deliver on the key performance indicators related to infant feeding

Other

• Able to evaluate and analyse results of audit in order to improve the service
• Computer literacy including using an excel spreadsheet

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we actively support applications from individuals who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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