Best Start in Life Advisor

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our expanding team, working with pregnant women and their families to ensure that every child has the best start in life.

The role will work with both the public health team and maternity teams providing a holistic, behavioural change approach to caring for pregnant women and their families, providing a range of early support and information to promote a healthy pregnancy and targeting work to reduce health inequalities faced by families in your care. This may include, smoking cessation, physical activity advice, infant feeding, immunisations and healthy lifestyle support.

You will work with the maternity tobacco dependency team and public health team to provide behavioural support and treatment to promote changes to support a healthier pregnancy. In addition, you will care for women in priority groups who experience poorer outcomes in maternity and healthcare, including those who are living with complex social needs and those and women from ethnic minority backgrounds.

The Best Start in Life Advisor role is multi-skilled and will involve working autonomously across a variety of core public health priorities to provide opportunities for the best start in life.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

To work with a caseload of women and families during pregnancy and the early postnatal period to promote the best start in life for every child. You will be based in both the hospital and community setting, providing support in Family Hubs, family homes and community bases.

To support the wider 'Best Start in Life' programme of work within the public health and wider maternity team.

To support and manage prioritisation of a caseload in the maternity Best Start in Life pathways to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is provided to all that access the service.

You will provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation services and the enhanced continuity or carer pathway, this may include work with people by phone, by video conference, or face-to-face.

To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency and enhanced continuity of carer pathways.

The Best Start in Life team are based in the John Willie Sams Centere, Dudley, however the team works across Family Hubs, family homes and Community sites, offering a personalised approach to care. The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of women/families in a specific area.

We particularly welcome applications from staff with maternity service experience, interested in a secondment opportunity. Informal discussions are welcomed, please contact Carla Anderson.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work with the maternity and public health teams to provide holistic care based on a behaviour change approach to pregnant women and their families, with a focus on reducing health inequalities, improving maternal and neonatal outcomes and promoting a healthy pregnancy.

The post holder should have a working knowledge of public health and maternity services, as well as proven experience of working with vulnerable families in a community setting.

Please note for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.