Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursery Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- 24 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6423334
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- West Bromwich
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Infant feeding Community Nursery Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 4
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
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:
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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.
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Work as part of a team delivering care to babies, children their families, ensuring that their health and developmental needs are prioritised.
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Provide advice and support to mothers, children/young people and their families with low level issues around infant feeding.
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Help build a positive breastfeeding culture in communities, provide low level Breastfeeding support in response to requests from families
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Support parent/infant relationships and promote sensitive and attuned parenting to develop secure attachments.
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 job description and personal specification for further details about the responsibilities assigned to this post.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Attained education to GCSE level in English and Mathematics
- Completed 2-day Unicef Breast Feeding Training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Worked with families and offered advice to parents in relation to infant feeding and tongue tie.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Rachel Langford
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07972 344525
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