Scphn Infant Feeding Specialist

We are looking for a Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse for Infant Feeding to join our Bolton’s 0-19/25 Public Health Nursing Service.

It is an exciting opportunity for a SCPHN Health Visitor with a passion for Infant Feeding, improving health outcomes and the Public Health Mandate.

This rewarding, varied role will continue to ensure that you work closely with children, parents, families and communities to reduce health inequalities.

Within the role, you will support our service to achieve and maintain the standards for Baby Friendly requirements.

We use Electronic Patient Records, which enhances our integrated working and service delivery.

This role is a full time, permanent position. You will be based in a variety of settings, including homes, Start well buildings and health centres. Working hours are Monday-Friday core hours range between 8:30 am -6 pm. As a service we reflect Bolton Foundation Trust flexible working policy and promote agile working

As the SCPHN Infant Feeding Specialist, you will support and contribute to the development of 0-19/25 services specialist infant feeding offer in line National, Local Policy. You will demonstrate a high level of competence within Infant Feeding and be accountable for your decisions.

Within your role, you will support relevant Baby Friendly projects and maintain standards for BFI. This will include supporting relevant audits pathways and reports. There is an expectation that you will contribute to training of the 0-19/25 workforce and ensuring that they are adequately trained.

The will be a strong focus on the provision of clinical care within Infant Feeding. As a result, you will facilitate the specialist feeding service for mothers with challenging feeding issues whilst also supporting staff who support mothers with feeding difficulties.

You will be able to demonstrate that you are a credible, dynamic, flexible practitioner thorough sharing and delivery of evidence based practice. You will promote and ensure a positive breastfeeding culture within our organization, and relevant stakeholders.

The successful applicant will undertake relevant training to support them in the role.

We recognise the hard work and commitment our staff provide. This is acknowledged within 1-1 meetings, appraisals, excellence reporting, nominating staff for trust awards and the employee benefit scheme.

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice

As the expert Specialist Community Public Health Nurseon infant feeding, the person will provide support and organise training to ensure that all 0-19 staff are trained and skilled in supporting mothers in Bolton with feeding their baby. The post holder will also offer support to mothers needing one to one support in the community with Breastfeeding. The support will start in the antenatal period and continue in the community for as long as families seek support with feeding their babies. The post holder will work closely with the Healthy Families Team in particular the infant feeding support workers and as we are a Baby Friendly Trust the post holder will work with and under the direction of the BFI leads in midwifery to support the maintenance of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) level 3.

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- Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse for Infant Feeding