Specialist Health Visitor

If you are a qualified Health Visitor and have a passion for infant feeding and improving the experiences for families whilst improving health visitor education and support, then we would like to hear from you

As a Specialist Health Visitor for Infant Feeding in Derbyshire, you can make a real difference to children, families and communities.

You will play a fundamental role in the development of the specialist infant feeding service, education and training of teams across the service and wider system.

We are a UNICEF Baby Friendly Accredited service and are working towards gold accreditation.

The role will be to enhance multi-disciplinary working, across organisational boundaries, to promote breastfeeding and support mothers, families, and communities to ensure effective uptake and sustainment of breastfeeding.

The post holder will be available to advise clinical teams within the 0-5 service around complex infant feeding issues undertaking face-to-face contacts with families with complex feeding issues as necessary.

The post holder will manage a defined active caseload of infants requiring support with infant feeding problems.

They will provide clinical supervision for paid peer support workers.

The post holder with support from the specialist infant feeding lead will ensure the efficient and quality delivery of UNICEF breastfeeding management and relationship training along with bespoke staff group refreshers within the 0-5 service.

They will have continuing responsibility for the assessment of individuals needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.

They will prescribe according to assessed individual need from the Nurse Prescribing Formulary.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.

During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.

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Patient Care
- Support the management and the delivery of the UNICEF breastfeeding management and relationship building trainingto the clinical teams within the 0-5 service.
- Contribute to the planning and organisation of workplace induction of new staff to support and facilitate the continuous professional and practices development of staff in regard to infant feeding programmes.
- Establish and develop multi-agency/multi professional working relationships in line with national and local priorities and strategies. Provide specialist advice to Health Visitors, Breastfeeding support workers, children’s centre staff other health professionals and parents in relation to infant feeding
- Support the specialist infant feeding lead to ensure effective systems are in place to gain feedback from the patient/client and carers on their experience of care.
- Recognise and act on opportunities to involve patients/clients/carers in service development and improvement measures.
- Support and enhance the learning environment for pre and post registered students and other health learners.
- Support the specialist infant feeding lead to maintain UNICEF baby friendly accreditation.
- Assistin the collation, delivery and presentation of statistical information and data as required by the senior management team, specialist infant feeding lead, Public Health England, and UNICEF
- Participate in the clinical supervision programme.
- Comply with Trust policies and procedures.
- To support clinical supervision/reflective practice and continuous learning both for skill mix staff and oneself. To share good practice with colleagues
- Responsible to assist in the development, adherence and monitoring of pathways and guidance in relation to infant feeding
- To promote Clinical Governance Guidelines and be proactive in the development of a culture that is committed to innovation and quality improvement through the use of research and audit to enable services to be continuously improved, to include clinical benchmarking, professional development, competence frameworks and clinical supervision
- To manage and take continuing responsibility for a defined caseload related to infant feeding and be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care and setting of defined standards of care which are evidenced within the 0-19 policies and guidance and meet Trust Policies and Procedures to ensure quality of