Are you a Health Visitor, Nurse or Midwife with substantial experience looking for the next step in your career?

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

Do you have a proven record of strong clinical leadership skills and excellent communication skills for multi-agency work?

If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to recruit you in the role as an Infant Feeding Coordinator

This is a new and dynamic role for SWB Health Visiting service where you will be responsible for leading the health visiting service in providing high quality care for infant feeding and relationship building. This will include delivering individualised care in response to feeding issues.

The post holder will be expected to have specialist knowledge and a wide range of experience in this field and the confidence to share knowledge with other professionals through coordinating training and working strategically with partners to develop and embed infant feeding pathways.

The post holder will also co-ordinate and support the implementation of the NHS Baby Friendly Initiative Standards to enable staff to support pregnant women to recognise the importance of breast feeding and early relationship for the health and wellbeing of their baby and the importance of positive feeding practices through the early years.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Work collaboratively with families and partner agencies to achieve an increase in the numbers of women who initiate and continue breastfeeding
• Work closely with public health to identify population needs and take a coordinated approach to develop services provided to families across Sandwell
• Lead the infant feeding team
• Have an excellent knowledge of current legislation in relation to infant feeding practice
• Be influential to inspire change, provide expert and professional leadership and support for staff by demonstrating a commitment to best practice in breastfeeding and infant feeding
• Be committed to developing and transforming services
• Utilise evidenced based practice and research

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for additional information relating to the main responsibilities

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience working as a post registration nurse
• Experience of working in a community setting delivering direct breast-feeding advice and support.
• Evidence of leading innovation/ change in clinical practice
• Leadership and managerial skills and the ability to manage a team.
• Evidence of incorporating public health breastfeeding priorities
• Evidence of completing audits and responding to findings

Desirable

• Previous experience in an infant specialist role
• Experience of planning implementing and evaluating breastfeeding training programmes
• Leadership qualifications
• Experience in implementing Baby Friendly Initiatives
• Experience of planning implementing and evaluating breastfeeding training programmes

Qualifications

Essential

• First Level Registered Nurse/RSCN or Midwife
• Evidence of recent post registration learning
• BFI Breast Feeding and Relationship Building or equivalent
• Leadership qualification

Desirable

• o International Board-Certified Lactation consultant (BCLC's
• Unicef BFI train the trainer
• Qualified SCPHN (Health Visitor)
• Nurse prescriber
• Educated to master's level or willing to work towards achieving a qualification.

Employer details

Employer name

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Address

SWB NHS Trust

Hallam Street

Sandwell

B71 4HJ

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381-WC-6421467