Infant feeding Community Nursery Nurse

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

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Job summary

Band 4 Infant Feeding Community Nursery Nurse ( 2 year Fixed Term)

Are you an experienced Community Nursery Nurse with looking for the new opportunities within a community setting?

Are you passionate about infant feeding and providing excellent services for children and young people?

Do you want to be part of the team supporting women with their feeding choices and helping the service work towards achieving its BFI accreditation?

Do you have a proven record of excellent child development assessment skills?

If so, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to recruit you in the role as a Infant Feeding Community Nursery Nurse.

This is a new role for SWB Health Visiting service where you will work as part of the Infant Feeding Team, undertaking a range of activities including supporting breastfeeding and infant feeding choices and delivering key public health messages.

Main duties of the job

As an Infant Feeding Community Nursery Nurse

You will:

Make contact with and support all parents to make informed choices regarding feeding and implement plans to enable parents to initiate and establish feeding their baby regardless of their chosen feeding method.

Work as part of a team delivering care to babies, children their families, ensuring that their health and developmental needs are prioritised.

Provide advice and support to mothers, children/young people and their families with low level issues around infant feeding.

Help build a positive breastfeeding culture in communities, provide low level Breastfeeding support in response to requests from families

Support parent/infant relationships and promote sensitive and attuned parenting to develop secure attachments.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

Date posted

30 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

24 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

381-WC-6423334-A

Job locations

SWB NHS Trust

West Bromwich

B71 4HJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and personal specification for further details about the responsibilities assigned to this post.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and personal specification for further details about the responsibilities assigned to this post.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Currently/ previously worked in a community care setting
Experience of home visiting/ working in baby clinics
Experience of working in diverse communities and with diverse and vulnerable families
Experience of supporting families with feeding issue

Qualifications

Essential

NNEB/ Diploma in Childcare and Education (DCE) awarded by CACHE or the HNC in Childcare and Education (Scotland) or
Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years, awarded by EDEXEL or
NVQ Level 3 in Early Years and Education, awarded by City and Guilds, CACHE, EDEXEL and the OU
Attained education to GCSE level in English and Mathematics

Desirable

Completed 2-day Unicef Breast Feeding Training

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of local and national infant feeding policies
Knowledge of tongue tie and the possible implications to effective feeding
Excellent child health and developmental assessment skills and early identification of problems . Understanding of clinical governan
Working knowledge of child protection procedures and awareness of domestic violence

Desirable

Worked with families and offered advice to parents in relation to infant feeding and tongue tie.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Currently/ previously worked in a community care setting
Experience of home visiting/ working in baby clinics
Experience of working in diverse communities and with diverse and vulnerable families
Experience of supporting families with feeding issue

Qualifications

Essential

NNEB/ Diploma in Childcare and Education (DCE) awarded by CACHE or the HNC in Childcare and Education (Scotland) or
Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years, awarded by EDEXEL or
NVQ Level 3 in Early Years and Education, awarded by City and Guilds, CACHE, EDEXEL and the OU
Attained education to GCSE level in English and Mathematics

Desirable

Completed 2-day Unicef Breast Feeding Training

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of local and national infant feeding policies
Knowledge of tongue tie and the possible implications to effective feeding
Excellent child health and developmental assessment skills and early identification of problems . Understanding of clinical governan
Working knowledge of child protection procedures and awareness of domestic violence

Desirable

Worked with families and offered advice to parents in relation to infant feeding and tongue tie.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.