Infant Feeding Advisor
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2025 |
| Location: | Northampton, NN1 5BD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9265-25-0451 |
Summary
We are looking for someone with drive and a passion for infant feeding to work within the small, friendly team. As the Infant Feeding Advisor, you will promote Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) care standards by teaching, supporting and mentoring staff to give the best possible care to babies and their parents. You will support the work of the Infant Feeding Lead to ensure that the BFI standards continue to be implemented across the service, preparing for any future accreditation visits and for our ambitions of achieving BFI Gold accreditation. We need someone who is motivated, flexible, positive about breastfeeding and who is keen to further develop their knowledge and skills in infant feeding and the BFI process. In time you will be able to work both independently and as part of the team using your excellent clinical, interpersonal and organisational skills to work with the infant feeding lead to: Support new staff and midwifery students to develop their clinical skills in infant feeding using an evidence-based approach in line with BFI care standards Run training sessions for a range of maternity staff and to the multi-disciplinary team Carry out practical skills reviews in infant feeding Work with staff individually and in groups to build their skills to provide a high level of care in infant feeding Participate in the provision of breastfeeding workshops for expectant parents Support staff to develop care plans with complex clinical cases Carry out regular audits to monitor our compliance with BFI standards of care and report the findings Use these audit results and current evidence to help shape training for staff and resources for parents Assist in the writing and implementation of guidelines and initiatives relevant to infant feeding Support parents in the infant feeding clinic with more complex situations Deputise in meetings at local and regional level as required