Infant Feeding Co-ordinator

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Infant Feeding Co-ordinator who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post holder will have responsibility for providing leadership, development and implementation of infant feeding policies and practice within East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, in line with UNICEF requirements, to meet national and local breastfeeding targets and address health inequalities.

To ensure the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust continues to work towards and achieve accreditation with the UNICEF (UK) Baby Friendly standards, to embed sustained change within the Trust, and to develop a system of continuous improvement.

The post holder will have significant knowledge and experience in breastfeeding practice and management and will work as part of a county-wide Breastfeeding Development Team towards improving breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates, ensuring continuity of services from Acute to Community settings.

To champion the UNICEF baby friendly standards and support the development of a culture that embraces breastfeeding as the preferred infant feeding choice through coordinating the efforts of staff. The post holder will be a lead for the infant feeding team and support the continued development of a specialist service.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a midwife with drive and a passion for infant feeding to work within the small, friendly team. As the Infant Feeding Midwife, you will promote Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) care standards by teaching, supporting and mentoring staff to give the best possible care to babies and their parents.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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