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Infant Feeding Early Years Practitioner
Band 4
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
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A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Infant Feeding Team within Enfield Health visiting service. The post holder will support the Infant Feeding lead in deliver Infant Feeding Services to families in Enfield. We are seeking an Early Years Practitioner/Community Nursery Nurse who is motivated and passionate about providing children and families with high standard of care , to join and complement our Infant Feeding Team.
We are looking for a flexible, enthusiastic individual who can communicate effectively and is able to work independently and as part of a team.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The post-holder will contribute to the provision of infant feeding services including delivery of breastfeeding support, which may include home visiting; telephone support and group work at the Family Hub, children’s centres/clinics.
The post-holder will be expected to support with the implementation of UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative and maintain baby friendly standards within the Health Visiting service. The post holder will have knowledge of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative to ensure that community standards are sustained and embedded across health visiting service. The Infant Feeding Support worker will assist the Infant Feeding Lead in Health Visiting to achieve full accreditation of BFI commencing with Stage 2:
The Infant Feeding Support Worker is pivotal in facilitating health promotion groups for families to support breast feeding and infant feeding and referring and signposting to appropriate services. The post holder will have knowledge, skills and experience in infant feeding and will work in close collaboration with the health visiting services to ensure the seamless delivery of care across the infant feeding service, providing continuity of care to the families.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.
The Community division comprises of the 0-19 Service, Health Visitor and School Nursing services, that deliver the Healthy Child Programme. As well as a BCG clinic for targeted babies and Canterbury ward, that supports the acute wards.
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Job Title : Early Years Practitioner
Band: 4
Department: Universal Children’s Services
Location and mobility:
Your normal place of work will be in one of the Enfield Community bases. However, you may be required to work at any other location of the Trusts interests, including travelling to appropriate meetings, outside of the borough, as required.
Accountable to : Service Manager Universal Children’s Services.
Responsible to : Infant Feeding Lead
Key Working Relationships
Internal: Health Visitors, School Nurses, Health Visitor Assistants and operational support staff
External: Children Centre workers, Social Services and GP’S
Main Responsibilities
• To demonstrate a commitment to best practice in breastfeeding/infant feeding in line with community infant feeding and UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative alongside relevant professional Codes of Conduct.
•Offering specialist support and guidance for mothers to initiate and maintain breastfeeding – in group settings, at home, face-to-face or on the phone .This can include good hand-eye co-ordination physical skills when demonstrating using dolls and a prosthetic breast .
• Support mothers with more complex breastfeeding needs e.g. multiple births
• Uses judgement to identify, assess, and refer babies for tongue tie division, following discussion and full verbal consent of mother/parents. 2
• Good levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs.
•Play an active role in the locality teams acting as a resource and champion.
•Uses physical skills to support and/or facilitate breastfeeding support groups and antenatal breastfeeding/postnatal workshops in a variety of settings.
•Support the Programme Lead with the implementation of UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative
•Supporting with staff and mothers breastfeeding’ audits, or other baby friendly activities as required.
•Supervises new staff/students.
•Promote breastfeeding service effectively – identifying opportunities and proactively suggesting ways to connect with local community.
•Contribute recommendations for own work area to enhance policies and improve service delivery.
To participate in audit, quality improvement, research projects and/or innovations following agreed policy and protocol.
•Support parents who mix or formula feed with the information they need to feed their babies safely and responsively.
•Have good communication skills when discussing the introduction of solid foods with parents, ensuring that all parents understand recommendations on when to introduce solids, to facilitate online/face to face starting solids workshops to families.
•Promotes effective communication. Aware of barriers to communication. Communicates with the first/preferred language of client. Requires good IT, written and oral skills.
•Support all parents, regardless of how they choose to feed their baby, with sensitivity, respect and a non-judgemental attitude.
•Proven organisation skills to help prepare for, as well as participate and support with local and national promotional events (as appropriate) e.g., National Breastfeeding Week or World Breastfeeding Week.
•Provide advice to encourage parents to engage with local health promotion activities, signposting parents to the most up to date information about local activities within their communities.
•Assist in the planning and implementation of induction programmes for new members of staff.
•Responsible for own workload on the day-to-day basis, under the supervision of the Infant Feeding Lead.
•Periods of concentration required when designing presentations and workshops.
•Uses duty of care when using equipment
•Deals with emotive issues such as difficult conversations such as unable to breast feed, safeguarding issues, and anxiety with children.
•Maintain accurate and appropriate documentation.
•Demonstrate awareness of the needs of children and their families from diverse ethnic groups and demonstrate awareness of the Trust Equal Opportunities.
•Ensure Health and Safety policies and all relevant Trust and National policies and guidelines are adhered to, including issues relating to the Children Act, Children’s rights and needs.
•The post holder can be exposed to baby’s vomit and breast milk (body fluids) whilst supporting mother with feeding.
•Have knowledge and understanding of trust guidelines and policies appropriate to the role and demonstrate evidence-based practiced based on these and Baby Friendly standards.
•Identify and pursue own educational and professional development including mandatory training.
•This job description outlines the current main responsibilities of the post. However, the duties of the post may change and develop over time and this job description may, therefore be amended in consultation with the post holder.
•To attend regular safeguarding supervision groups.
Manyleb y person
Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Qualification as a Nursery Nurse - Diploma
- Functional Skills at Level 2 (Literacy and numeracy/ GCSE grade A-C or equivalent in English and Maths)
- BFI 2 day training
Meini prawf dymunol
- • UNICEF Breastfeeding and Relationship Building Course UNICEF Train the Trainer course
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme
- Awareness and understanding of local, national and international strategies relevant to breastfeeding & infant feeding in general.
- Knowledge peer support programmes and why they work
- Understanding the factors required to breastfeed successfully and identify barriers to achieving this
- Knowledge of how to support parents to safely & responsively formula-feed
Meini prawf dymunol
- awareness of current issues relating to infant feeding in UK
- Knowledge of the needs of the extended family and the role they play in supporting a mother to breastfeed
- Knowledge of the demographics Enfield
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of providing infant feeding support to mothers of newborn babies up to 1 year
- Experience of providing specialist support to complex clients e.g. multiple births, pre-term babies
- Experience of complex feeding issues e.g. mastitis, supressing lactation, tongue tie
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative
- Working with diverse ethnic and social community groups
- Knowledge of information sharing and confidentiality requirements
- Experience of working as part of a multi disclipinary team
- Supporting families with the introduction of solids
- Experience in running and organising an infant feeding clinic
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of managing own workload
- Awareness of UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative audit process
- Experience of teaching/leading groups both antenatal and postnatal
- Ability to teach, educate and facilitate in peer to peer training
Skills and Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent skills to support mothers to feed their baby safely and responsively (with breastmilk or formula)
- IT literacy & typing skills
- Understanding of UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Maternity, Community and Children’s Centre/maternity Standards
- Ability to deliver and facilitate infant feeding drop in sessions in the community setting
- Able to travel across various locations to meet the needs of the service on a daily basis
- Happy to receive feedback and keen to learn
- Well organised and reliable
Meini prawf dymunol
- Able to use Excel spreadsheet to present simple audit data
- Able to design and deliver power point presentations
Gofynion ymgeisio
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Maura Ryan
- Teitl y swydd
- Clinical Lead Health Visiting
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 020 3988 7361
Rhestr swyddi gyda North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust yn Nyrsio a bydwreigiaeth neu bob sector