Job Introduction
Are you a compassionate and driven Infant Feeding Practitioner Worker eager to join an organisation committed to your professional advancement and personal fulfillment?
Do you possess a deep-seated dedication to empowering families to provide the optimal start for their newborns?
Have you successfully implemented the rigorous standards of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative?
Are you experienced in providing invaluable support to families navigating feeding challenges with their infants?
Do you envision yourself as a leader, cultivating a culture of excellence that prioritizes the well-being of families across Lancashire?
If you answered yes to these questions, we invite you to apply! Join our team and become a pivotal force in shaping a brighter future for families in Lancashire while advancing your career in a nurturing and supportive environment.
The Infant Feeding Practitioner will be based at any of our bases across Lancashire that Is closest to them.
This service is due to transfer to Wirral Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust (WCHC) later this year
Main Responsibility
As an Infant feeding Practitioner you will be working as a member of the Lancashire Healthy Young People and Families Service, supporting services to implement the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative and providing clinical specialist support to colleagues and families across Lancashire. Within this role, you will:
- Work in close partnership with the Infant Feeding team and wider network, to support Lancashire’s progression towards Baby Friendly accreditation in the community.
- Utilise strong local partnerships to deliver Baby Friendly Gold standards, through training, audit, and support of policy development
- Promote positive culture change within the community and the multi-agency workforce, by raising awareness of the importance of breastfeeding and infant feeding relationships for health and wellbeing and supporting or leading on the design and delivery of local campaigns and aspects of multi-agency projects.
- Provide specialist training and mentorship on infant feeding to the multi-agency workforce at all levels including medical and nursing staff
- Support clinical governance through conducting knowledge and skills audits, environment audits and staff audits utilising UNICEF Baby Friendly audit tools.
- Involve service users as active partners in the development and delivery of the service, conduct service user experience evaluations and service development and delivery consultations.
- Provide professional and clinical support to plan care where there is complex medical and social situations working closely with universal services.
- Present complex issues and best practice developments in a professional manner, either verbally or in written format, e.g. strategic reports, legal reports and conference presentations.
- Interpret a wide range of data and evidence to dynamically create, developed and evaluate interventions that promote optimal infant feeding and relationship building for families in Lancashire.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a passion for supporting families to get the best start for their babies. You will have previous experience in a leadership role and experience working proactively with a high degree of autonomy. You will need to be able embrace new ways of working, looking at self and whole system progression continually championing best practice, and most importantly are you will need to be compassionate, brave and a team player.
We plan to hold interviews on 17/05/24, so please let us know in your application if you won't be available on that day. We look forward to hearing from you.
Package Description
You will feel valued as an Infant Feeding Practitioner with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
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Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
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Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
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The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
