Infant Feeding Support Assistant in St Helens

You’ll support parents in the early days after birth, helping them build confidence with feeding their baby and giving them the best possible start.

Working as part of a friendly infant feeding and maternity team, you will provide practical guidance and encouragement to parents during their hospital stay. This role plays an important part in promoting positive feeding experiences, supporting parent wellbeing and ensuring families have access to the information they need before going home. You will work closely with midwives and other healthcare professionals to provide consistent, supportive care.

What you’ll do:

• Provide practical support and reassurance to parents with infant feeding
• Demonstrate feeding techniques, including breastfeeding positioning, hand expressing and responsive bottle feeding
• Promote positive feeding practices and share information about ongoing support services
• Work closely with midwives and the wider infant feeding team
• Recognise concerns and elevate them appropriately to healthcare professionals

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore City Health Care Partnership would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role

Main duties of the job

What we’re looking for:

• Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience
• Good communication skills and a caring, respectful approach
• Experience providing information or practical support to others
• Ability to work well as part of a team and maintain confidentiality
• Basic IT skills and willingness to learn through training and supervision

We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds and experiences and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with fairness, respect and can contribute their ideas.

Working for our organisation

At CHCP, we’re passionate about people, we recognise that high quality care is delivered by high quality professionals who are appreciated, respected, and supported, which is why we want to give all our colleagues the chance to shine.

Work with us and you’ll be more than just a number. Our people are our shareholders, and their thoughts and opinions are always heard;at CHCP you have a real voice.

Compassion is at the heart of our business; our colleagues work together to deliver first class healthcareto thousands of people. Local diversity demands diverse roles, that’s why we have vacancies to suit everybody. No matter your role at CHCP, we’ll support you to thrive.

CHCP CIC employees have access to an excellent range of benefits;

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached to this job advert for full details on the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience
• Basic IT skills including the ability to use electronic systems for documentation
• Training in infant feeding support (e.g. peer support or equivalent)

Knowledge

• Basic understanding of infant feeding
• Awareness of responsive feeding and recognising infant feeding cues
• Awareness of the importance of early infant feeding support for parents in the early postnatal period
• Awareness of safeguarding responsibilities within a healthcare setting
• Awareness of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative

Experience

• Experience of providing information or practical support in a one-to-one setting
• Experience of maintaining basic records or documentation
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Experience of working with parents, families or infants in a supportive role
• Experience of working within a healthcare or hospital environment

City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC) is an independent, co-owned Community Interest Company providing high quality local health and care services at several sites across Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Knowsley and St Helens.

Commissioned by the NHS and local authorities, we are a socially responsible business. Our profits are re‑invested into our services, our staff, and the communities we work in. We employ nearly 2,500 people and have over 1.7 million patient contacts each year across more than 50 different services.

Our vision is to lead and inspire through excellence, compassion, and expertise in all that we do, and we are looking for exceptional people to work with us to provide the highest possible care to the people who use our services.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. Should you have started the application at this point and require additional time to complete it, please contact us for support.

We acknowledge some candidates may use AI to support their application, however it is essential that your application accurately reflects your skills, knowledge, and experience and this will be validated via the interview and clearance process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

Please be aware we reserve the right to close this vacancy when we receive a sufficient number of applications.