Breastfeeding Assistant Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting job opportunity has arisen to join Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust’s forward thinking, compassionate, family focused Specialist Infant Feeding team, who provide specialist support for families experiencing complex feeding challenges.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to working in partnership with a number of key stakeholders and wider services to improve the health and well being of the population in Kent and the maintenance of the UNICEF Baby Friendly standards and progression towards Gold award.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is passionate about infant feeding and shares our vision to support families with their chosen method of feeding to develop close and loving relationships with their babies to facilitate brain development and attachment.

Breastfeeding Assistant Practitioners work under the direction of a Lactation Consultant to deliver packages of care to support breastfeeding babies and their families.

Staff are expected to travel to the Specialist Team hub in Maidstone on a daily basis and work across a number of settings, including community, group settings, virtual and over the phone.

We will support you to further develop your skills and knowledge in infant feeding and lactation and encouragement will be given to undertake further advanced study in lactation as required.

If you have had experience in giving advice to women and their families about infant feeding and are well versed in the Baby Friendly ethos and committed to giving excellent care we would like to hear from you.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our valuesCompassionateAspirationalResponsiveExcellent

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

We’ve signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we’re delivering our pledge to be the best employer

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

Looking for professional development? We can support that too Ourcareer pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations

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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

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