Infant Feeding Lead

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

Specialist Health Visitor for Infant Feeding and Weight Management - Band 7 - The Causeway Richmond

Are you passionate about infant and child nutrition? Do you share UNICEF’s goal to increase breastfeeding rates along with supporting families who may need specialist feeding support? Do you have the experience to deliver specialist breast feeding clinics, supporting our health visitors with feeding concerns that fall outside of their expertise? Do you want to share your knowledge and support the training of our staff to be confident in supporting our families?

If yes to all of the above; CLCH have an exciting opportunity for you, we are seeking a part-time Infant Feeding Team Lead for the borough of Richmond Upon Thames?

This 0.6 WTE post will cover the Richmond borough but will work closely with the current 1 WTE infant feeding lead in Wandsworth. Together you will ensure the baby friendly initiative is maintained and progresses for both boroughs.

You will be joining a forward thinking and innovative integrated Universal Children’s Service providing Health Visiting, School Nursing, Infant Nutrition and Healthy Weight services in Wandsworth & Richmond (W&R). We have excellent relationships and work in partnership with our Local Authority, Maternity colleagues, Early Years Teams, and the wider infant feeding network across CLCH.

Interviews planned for week commencing 28th August 2023

As the Infant Feeding, Nutrition and Healthy Weight Lead you will drive the Baby Friendly initiative. W&R are currently progressing through stage 3 and will be working towards sustainability. You will seek to maintain the services UNICEF Baby Friendly status and continue to improve it. You will work closely with the Health Visiting service but also W&R Early Years and Children’s Centre’s. You with have strong organisational skills and sound knowledge to infant nutrition and obesity frameworks. The ability to inspire and lead change and improvement as part of your leadership skills. You will have ability to use data to support your role.

You will have an interest in leadership and the delivery of quality family centered care where children are at the heart of the work you lead. You will seek and develop innovative ways of working with families to enable babies/children to have their best start in life. You will provide leadership, management, advice, and support for your team members. You will be supported by a Clinical Lead, Health Visitor Team Leaders and the wider resources of the Clinical Service Unit, Division, CLCH and the CLCH Academy.

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours

**We can offer you**:

- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Single occupancy accommodation in Central London - (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
- Support with gaining your driving license *T&C’s apply
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks.

To lead and coordinate the implementation and accreditation of Baby Friendly Initiative Standards (BFI) across the Health Visiting service ensuring support and advice are universal and that best practice and training opportunities are shared across agencies.

Act as a specialist resource and provide key health care workers with highly specialist and expert advice and information with regard to breastfeeding support and infant feeding and weight management.

To work autonomously to lead the process of embedding breastfeeding and relationship building as per all the UNICEF BFI standards and Quality Strategy Objectives within Health Visiting and linked partner agencies

Participate in National and Regional health promotion campaigns related to breastfeeding and weight management and other Public Health initiatives.

To represent CLCH at local, regional and national breast/infant feeding management meetings and forums.

Will be responsible for developing and delivering infant feeding and weight management interventions which respond to local need, Trust strategic objectives, national

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