Infant Feeding Support Worker
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £25,147.00 to £27,596.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25147.00 - £27596.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2024 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME75NY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9275-24-0260 |
Summary
To ensure all women receive appropriate support and advice with their chosen method of feeding. To support families to develop their relationship with their babies in the antenatal and postnatal period, to facilitate brain development and attachment To work in collaboration with the Infant Feeding Lead and Support Midwife and assist them to give family centred support, and refer if appropriate To help the Infant Feeding lead maintain the UNICEF standards throughout the trust Offer specialist support and guidance to facilitate mothers to initiate and sustain breastfeeding - across a multitude of settings e.g. community, hospital, group settings and over the phone Support mothers with complex breastfeeding needs e.g. multiple births, babies on NICU, pre-term babies. Identify when feeding is not going well and refer to multidisciplinary services appropriately - e.g. specialist feeding clinic, health visiting, neonatal doctors To support and/or facilitate breastfeeding support groups and provide antenatal and postnatal education Working with antenatal women and their families to promote the service and the benefits of breastfeeding Help collect data, statistics and feedback to use for audit and to improve the service To provide face to face and telephone feeding support to families, up to 6 weeks post birth, both in the hospital setting and community setting.