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Job overview

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a Centre of excellence in specialist healthcare for women, children, and their families in the West Midlands.  

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated nurse to join our infant feeding team who have a vision to develop and maintain high standards of care for women, children, and young people.  The role requires the individual to have advanced experience of working with mothers and children’s and supporting feeding. The individual will need to be enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate about good quality care for women, children, and young people. We are developing our Infant Feeding Team at BCH to provide the best possible infant feeding advice and support to families. 

We currently have two fixed term vacancies, one full time post 37.5hrs for 20 months and one 22.5hrs per week post for 12 months.

The post holder will be working as part of the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Infant Feeding Team, contributing to all aspects of the service, but focusing on infant feeding support at Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced registered Nurse who:

·         Has specialist knowledge of the Baby friendly initiative and can help support the implementation of standards.

·         Has a keen interest in ensuring high standards of care and support for patients who are breastfeeding their babies

·         Will provide expert knowledge, support, and advice to staff across the trust and be happy to deliver education in a classroom setting

·         Will provide direct support to patients with feeding problems as required

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.