Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6421467
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Sandwell
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Infant Feeding Co-ordinator
NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
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
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for additional information relating to the main responsibilities
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- First Level Registered Nurse/RSCN or Midwife
- Evidence of recent post registration learning
- BFI Breast Feeding and Relationship Building or equivalent
- Leadership qualification
Desirable criteria
- • 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 certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yvonne Copeland
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07855514761
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