Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join the Infant Feeding Team at Wexham Park Hospital.
As a band 6 midwife and member of the infant feeding team, you will be promoting good infant feeding practices, throughout the unit to women and maternity staff, during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. Whilst supporting the specialist Infant feeding lead midwives, in the provision of advice expertise and education, to maintain the baby friendly accreditation within the hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post requires the individualto be able to influence practice within all clinical areas. An understanding of current issues in infant feeding, locally, nationally, as well as government policies is required. Knowledge and experience of the requirements for accreditation for the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) is essential. You will have a desire/ an aspiration to progress with clinical practice and happy to embrace change.
You must be sensitive to the needs of individual mothers and their babies. You need to be flexible and able to work as part of a team. Good communication skills, including written and presentation skills, are essential. The ability to teach, medical staff, trained staff and untrained staff is a requirement.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- All midwife practitioners will be Registered Midwives, accountable for their own midwifery practice and will be able to fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions with current protocols and principles of care in compliance with the NMCs Midwives Rules and code of Midwifery Practice.
- This midwife will be at least 2 years qualified, but she/he will be expected to continue with post-registration education and development to become a confident midwife able to provide care with the women either in the community or hospital environment.
- To support implantation and evaluation of a programme of care aimed specifically at childbearing women for infant feeding.
- To be actively involved in women and midwifery education.
- Support breast feeding clinic and tongue tie service.
- Keep up to date with Infant feeding developments by attending conferences, course and work towards completing the baby friendly training.
- Provide education for other Midwives in all aspects of infant feeding during pregnancy.
- Be Responsible for monitoring and evaluating the infant statistics throughout the Trust.
- Work closely with Maternity Department.
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Join the infant feeding team in running clinics in community, the well-baby clinic Monday to Friday and will help prevent re-admissions by establishing infant feeding plans.
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They will work closely with MDT, facilitate antenatal classes and provide high quality infant feeding support to new families.
Person Specification
written
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- 2 years qualified or more
Desirable
- Infant feeding experience
- BFI training/courses
- lactation consultants qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wexham Park
Wexham Street
Slough
SL2 4HL