Infant Feeding Specialist Health Visitor
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, BR1 5EP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9197-25-0584 |
Summary
To promote effective working relationships by liaising with colleagues, GPs, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary agencies To communicate highly sensitive and complex information to appropriate parties by promoting effective working relationships within their integrated teams To support staff to undertake child and family health assessments in partnership with the family and, where needed, use the Common Assessment Framework to develop specific family health plans to meet long term health and parenting needs To train staff in the use of Baby Friendly UNICEF/ Trust breastfeeding assessment tool. To organise and deliver (working closely with public health & Clinical Practice Educator) level 3 breast feeding training and assessment of staff To act as a resource and support to other practitioners working with women and families to support their feeding choices To interpret, evaluate and implement the effective working practices that deliver on the outcomes agreed at a strategic level (KPI) To take the lead in audits relating to infant feeding as required by the trust and as part of the continued BFI assessment To plan and organise own workload around the infant feeding Lewisham and Greenwich To lead in the on-going delivery of breast-feeding hubs across the borough To contribute to the local health inequalities agenda liaising with colleagues and wider multi agency partners