Infant Feeding Community Health Worker

Community Health Worker - Infant Feeding: 19 hours per week secondment opportunity for 12 months to cover maternity leave.

INTERNAL ONLY (Devon County Council Employees Only)

Are you passionate about supporting families and improving outcomes for babies and parents?

Would you like to develop specialist skills and knowledge in infant feeding while continuing to work within your local community?

• The
• Infant Feeding Team is delighted to offer an exciting
• 1-year secondment opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated
• Community Health Worker to join our team for

19 hours per week .

This unique role offers the chance to broaden your experience, gain specialist infant feeding knowledge, and work alongside a dedicated team committed to providing high-quality support to families across Devon.

We are inviting applications from CHWs who are interested in combining their current locality role with a specialist infant feeding role. Successful applicants will retain a minimum of 2 days per week within their locality CHW role , while undertaking the Infant Feeding CHW role through a combination of existing contracted hours and/or additional secondment hours.

• The
• Community
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Worker: Infant Feeding works as part of the public health nursing team in providing preventative and supportive health care to children young people and their families.

The post holder works under the supervision of the Infant Feeding Coordinator a with a defined population.

As part of the public health nursing team the post holder collaborates with a wider multi-disciplinary team in offering public health services to the community.

The work takes place in a variety of settings, including home, clinic, schools and community venues.

Main duties and responsibilities

• The principle responsibility of the post holder it to support the delivery of universal services and targeted interventions to address health inequalities.
• The service will be offered within the framework of national and local targets including the Healthy Child Programme.
• Working in partnership to provide appropriate advice and support to families in accordance with evidence based practice under the supervision of the Infant feeding Coordinator.
• Signposting families to supportive services Family Hubs and services provided by the local authority or the voluntary sector.
• Working in partnership with services provided by the local authority or the voluntary service to provide collaborative infant feeding support under the supervision of the Infant Feeding Coordinator.
• Maintain clear and accurate records as per standards and guidelines, ensuring clear analysis and outcomes for the child.
• Support and promote breast-feeding, responsive evidence based infant feeding practices, good nutrition, dental care, and smoking cessation.
• Communicates effectively with people who may themselves have communication difficulties, including willingness to seek out and use resources to help those whose first language is not English or those with sensory or learning difficulties.
• Able to communicate effectively and helpfully with people who may be distressed or angry, for example, may be asked to support families where there is a child with special needs.
• Communicates in such a way as to empower, motivate and/or support individuals, families and other members of staff, judging which approach is most likely to be effective in addressing the current health need or situation.
• Able to recognise situations where service users require support and guidance from the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, for example, need for family reassessment, complex evolving family health needs, or child protection, thus ensuring safe practice as well as complex feeding support from the specialist Infant feeding service.
• Able to use relevant equipment eg: electronic scales and measures of length and height, and interpret result. Refers measurements that are outside normal parameters.
• Where appropriate, manages and maintains equipment, eg: ensuring servicing of scales at the required intervals.
• Has due regard to efficient and effective managements of resources, eg: accurate prediction and maintenance of supplies, informing line manager of any difficulties encountered and supports in the organisation of Infant feeding resources across the whole of Devon.
• Organises delegated workload to meet priorities of client care, making efficient use of time and travel.
• Supports the Organisation of service delivery and Infant feeding training across Public Health Nursing within health and community settings. child health clinics, National Childhood Measurement Programme in schools, Healthy Child Programme, mandatory Infant Feeding training.

Keeps a daily electronic diary containing accurate record of work content and travel.

• Initiate and participate in data collection, research, audit, surveys and service user feedback.
• Participating in supervision and annual appraisals which will help you to reflect on your work, understand your objectives and monitor your progress towards achieving them.
• Using continuing professional development to consolidate, update or improve clinical skills.
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