Infant Feeding Midwife

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

Are you an enthusiastic midwife who is passionate about infant feeding? Do you want to provide evidence-based care, work collaboratively as a team and be involved with quality improvement projects? This may be the role for you.

**This role includes**:

- Implement and evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards to maintain Imperial’s accreditation.
- Supporting patients and staff with clinical challenges relating to infant feeding, this may include reviewing and developing feeding plans for inpatients.
- Monitoring and auditing the effectiveness of the BFI standards through staff and patient audits.

Get ready to join our exceptional, diverse team of maternity staff at Imperial. Based at St Mary’s Hospital, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital and beyond, we're not just any team; we're a holistic host of world-class maternity services We care for everyone, from high-risk pregnancies to lower-risks ones, ensuring variety for staff and service users alike.

Fuelled by innovation, we embrace the latest resources and developments, ensuring there's always forwarding-thinking improvements in your area of interest.

So why wait? Join us This isn't just a job, it's a thrilling journey with the view to reshape maternity care together
- Support the Infant Feeding Leads with implementing the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards in each clinical area.
- To facilitate the development, introduction and monitoring of policies and guidelines related to infant feeding.
- Assist the Infant Feeding Leads in the implementation and monitoring of the infant feeding staff education programme.
- Organise and facilitate the antenatal infant feeding education of mothers/birthing people and support them in their chosen method of feeding.
- Support for multi-disciplinary staff facing clinical challenges related to infant feeding, this may include reviewing feeding plans for inpatient patients.
- Facilitate the organisation and delivery of practical skills reviews and key breastfeeding skills for relevant staff and maintain a database that records such training.
- To ensure there are appropriate resources for patients with up-to-date evidence-based information.
- To participate in the process of audit, research and implementation of change and to support and undertake the audit and reporting of best practice.
- Lead with the Specialist Midwife in facilitating team meetings and study sessions to build a cohesive team to execute evidence-based practice in promotion of infant feeding.
- To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

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