Job summary
GP Care Group is recruiting for a Community Nursery Nurse (CNN) to
join the Infant Feeding Team. This role is part of a collaborative project in
partnership with the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Services and HENRY, focused on
supporting mothers and families with infant feeding.
This position offers a unique opportunity to make a tangible
impact on the health and wellbeing of families in Waltham Forest, either
through a secondment or as a new role. You'll be part of a committed team
dedicated to delivering high-quality, personalised support to parents during a
crucial period of their childs development.
This role offers excellent opportunities for development and
learning, particularly for those looking to build their experience in infant
feeding, early years care, and public health. It provides scope for contributing to a pioneering model of care, with
support from experienced colleagues and partner organisations.
This is a fixed term contract that ends March 2026.
Hours are 30 hour per week worked across 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Main duties of the job
The postholder will:
- Be a core member of the Infant Feeding Team within GP Care Group.
- Support mothers with breastfeeding, responsive feeding, and informed feeding choices.
- Contact all mothers/parents/caregivers between 35 days post-birth to provide infant feeding advice and relevant health promotion.
- Escalate concerns to the Health Visitor for targeted assessment when appropriate.
- Provide follow-up support through targeted home visits, in Family Hubs, or in other community settings preferred by the family.
- Recognise developmental stages and intervene where challenges arise, empowering families through tailored support.
- Work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary 019 team, offering holistic support around infant care and parental wellbeing.
- Deliver interventions under the direction of the Infant Feeding Lead, both antenatally and postnatally, in accordance with the local Integrated Infant Feeding Pathway.
This is a community-based role, providing support and interventions where needed and making a meaningful contribution to early childhood development in Waltham Forest.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate a high level of communication skill which is sensitive and enables parents to absorb andact on advice. Be able to keep clear and contemporaneous records electronically..
- Contact mother/Caregivers 3-5 days postnatally to advise of feeding choices/support and support forwell-being.
- Provide Infant support across Healthy Child Clinics/Family Hubs.
- Provide 121 support under delegation of named cased holder.
- Undertake delegated Health reviews for Children .
- Report back to the appropriate team member any significant changes in the client circumstances that may impact on safety of others.
- To establish and maintain communications with parents, children and other professionals in a varietyof settings and mediums about daily activities, child care and child related information.
- Overcome barriers to communications such as language or learning difficulties.
- Provide empathy and reassurance between persons involved within scope of the role.
- Develop relationships with professionals groups including but not limited to; Midwives, HealthVisitors, GPs, Childrens centres and mental health services.
- To be proactive in liaising with non-statutory/voluntary/community based agencies
- To provide information and participation in case conferences and reports relating to specific cases
- Regular liaison with other community-based nursery nurses, health visitors and other professionalsinvolved in the care of the baby.
- Support training programmes across the Infant Feeding Pathway, in line with UNICEFrecommendations.
- Undertake required Developmental Health assessments and health promotion.
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of the principles of child health care.
- To ensure and take responsibility for attending all statutory and mandatory training and have theability to operationalise training to enhance practice.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills:
- Provide practical advice regarding establishing patterns and routines for the baby
- Support to families with common baby issues and signposting where needed, recognising when torefer when an issue falls outside of expected development.
- To assess different problems to determine the course of action with a range of options to compare
- Provision of advice and support surrounding age appropriate play and child development.
Planning and Organisational Skills:
- Plan and manage own workload, and contribute to organisation of the team and the service
- Work in line with the Lone Working Policy and highlight any health and safety concerns as required.
- To be responsible for own activity data reporting.
- Organise own time.
- Prioritise service user care under the supervision of qualified perinatal practitioners.
- Under the supervision of registered practitioners, making decisions about service user care asappropriate, with the support of the wider multi-disciplinary perinatal team.
Responsibility for direct/indirect patient care:
- Work within the Local Safeguarding Board guidelines for child protection, including attendance atclient related case conferences where necessary to discuss your observations following work withthe family.
- To access child protection supervision.
- To maintain accurate and contemporaneous electronic records of work undertaken.
- Ensure strict confidentiality in respect of clients and staff.
- Provide practical and emotional support to help women prepare for the transition into parenthood.
- Supporting partners, siblings and wider family members prior to arrival of the baby.
- Enhancing attachment and bonding through pregnancy using current research.
- Help to support families understand the world from the babys perspective.
- Explore the demand and need to develop and facilitate groups to encourage socialisation andsignposting to childrens centres/Family Hubs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate a high level of communication skill which is sensitive and enables parents to absorb andact on advice. Be able to keep clear and contemporaneous records electronically..
- Contact mother/Caregivers 3-5 days postnatally to advise of feeding choices/support and support forwell-being.
- Provide Infant support across Healthy Child Clinics/Family Hubs.
- Provide 121 support under delegation of named cased holder.
- Undertake delegated Health reviews for Children .
- Report back to the appropriate team member any significant changes in the client circumstances that may impact on safety of others.
- To establish and maintain communications with parents, children and other professionals in a varietyof settings and mediums about daily activities, child care and child related information.
- Overcome barriers to communications such as language or learning difficulties.
- Provide empathy and reassurance between persons involved within scope of the role.
- Develop relationships with professionals groups including but not limited to; Midwives, HealthVisitors, GPs, Childrens centres and mental health services.
- To be proactive in liaising with non-statutory/voluntary/community based agencies
- To provide information and participation in case conferences and reports relating to specific cases
- Regular liaison with other community-based nursery nurses, health visitors and other professionalsinvolved in the care of the baby.
- Support training programmes across the Infant Feeding Pathway, in line with UNICEFrecommendations.
- Undertake required Developmental Health assessments and health promotion.
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of the principles of child health care.
- To ensure and take responsibility for attending all statutory and mandatory training and have theability to operationalise training to enhance practice.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills:
- Provide practical advice regarding establishing patterns and routines for the baby
- Support to families with common baby issues and signposting where needed, recognising when torefer when an issue falls outside of expected development.
- To assess different problems to determine the course of action with a range of options to compare
- Provision of advice and support surrounding age appropriate play and child development.
Planning and Organisational Skills:
- Plan and manage own workload, and contribute to organisation of the team and the service
- Work in line with the Lone Working Policy and highlight any health and safety concerns as required.
- To be responsible for own activity data reporting.
- Organise own time.
- Prioritise service user care under the supervision of qualified perinatal practitioners.
- Under the supervision of registered practitioners, making decisions about service user care asappropriate, with the support of the wider multi-disciplinary perinatal team.
Responsibility for direct/indirect patient care:
- Work within the Local Safeguarding Board guidelines for child protection, including attendance atclient related case conferences where necessary to discuss your observations following work withthe family.
- To access child protection supervision.
- To maintain accurate and contemporaneous electronic records of work undertaken.
- Ensure strict confidentiality in respect of clients and staff.
- Provide practical and emotional support to help women prepare for the transition into parenthood.
- Supporting partners, siblings and wider family members prior to arrival of the baby.
- Enhancing attachment and bonding through pregnancy using current research.
- Help to support families understand the world from the babys perspective.
- Explore the demand and need to develop and facilitate groups to encourage socialisation andsignposting to childrens centres/Family Hubs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL),
Other requirements
Essential
- To be able to work as part of a wider team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0 19.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a community setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working with safeguarding children issues.
Abilities
Essential
- A sound understanding of child development, parenting.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL),
Other requirements
Essential
- To be able to work as part of a wider team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0 19.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a community setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working with safeguarding children issues.
Abilities
Essential
- A sound understanding of child development, parenting.
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.
