Infant Feeding Connector

Job Introduction
The** Infant Feeding Connector** is a non-registered practitioner working across Essex taking a lead role in the Infant Feeding agenda for the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service. Supported by the Infant Feeding Practitioners with a special interest, they will work together to drive forward the training and development of the work force (including infant feeding volunteers) in relation to Infant Feeding.

The role will be based within either an office base, Family Hub or Virtually across Essex.

Main Responsibilities
The role will be based within either an office base, Family Hub or Virtually across Essex.

**Key Responsibilties - **Including but not limited to:

- Oversee and drive forward the Infant Feeding Practitioners with Special Interest across Essex.
- Create and Lead the Infant Feeding Practitioners with Special Interest meetings to ensure that key messages are delivered and fed back to the teams.
- Working with the Practice Education Team to coordinate an Essex wide list of all colleagues and their Infant Feeding training Status and keep updated and current
- Working with an Administrator to ensure that all staff are booked onto Infant feeding training as they start with ECFWS, are booked in yearly for update training and to ensure all skills assessments completed.
- To organise regular monthly initial 2 day training and update sessions booked 12 months ahead utilising PE Team, and Infant Feeding Practitioners.
- To organise and participate in monthly Update sessions on a different infant feeding topic each month, a rolling 12 month programme
- To deliver weekly (dependant on need) ‘drop in’ sessions for colleagues to ask questions about Infant feeding, supported by Practice Education Team
- To assist with Infant feeding Volunteer supervision sessions and training
- To review and develop current training with Infant Feeding Practitioners with special interest and PE Team to update and keep training fresh and inline with Baby Friendly Compliance
- Lead on audit and evaluation when required
- Be the voice of the ECFWS to promote Infant feeding - Attending Infant Feeding Network meetings, liasing with Infant feeding leads within local NHS trusts and volunteer Infant feeding charities
- Work in partnership with HCRG Care Group Infant feeding leads from across the UK
- Any other function commensurate with competencies and job role
- Experience in delivering training to practitioners & clients.
- Creating training packages in line with BFI would be essential.
- Knowledge of national and local policy in Children’s Service and Public Health.
- Ability to work alone and part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Excellent IT skills and able to use electronic client record such as SystmOne

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.

Package Description
As an Infant Feeding Connector, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- Salary £27,500 - £33,000 with group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- 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
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- 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
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission