Specialist Nurse Infant Feeding | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7761642/214-WC-7761642 |
Summary
This is more than a job — it’s a chance to transform the start of a baby’s life. As Neonatal Infant Feeding Lead at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, you will be the driving force behind exceptional, evidence-based infant feeding care across neonatal and children’s services.
You will lead, inspire and empower clinical teams to deliver outstanding breastfeeding and infant feeding support, improving initiation and continuation rates and ensuring more babies leave hospital thriving on human milk. Working across the Level 2 Neonatal Unit, Transitional Care and Children’s Services, you will shape pathways, influence practice and champion families at every stage of their journey.
A key leader in achieving and sustaining UNICEF Baby Friendly standards, you will design training, embed best practice, drive audit and quality improvement, and create a culture where excellence flourishes. You’ll act as an expert clinician, educator and role model — mentoring staff, influencing multidisciplinary teams and directly supporting families, including those with complex needs.
Autonomous, impactful and deeply rewarding, this role offers the rare opportunity to combine clinical expertise, leadership, education and service innovation — all while making a lifelong difference to babies and their families.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Mar 2026
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