Infant Feeding Nurse

Job overview

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a Centre of excellence in specialist healthcare for women, children, and their families in the West Midlands.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated nurse to join our infant feeding team who have a vision to develop and maintain high standards of care for women, children, and young people.  The role requires the individual to have advanced experience of working with mothers and children’s and supporting feeding. The individual will need to be enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate about good quality care for women, children, and young people. We are developing our Infant Feeding Team at BCH to provide the best possible infant feeding advice and support to families.

We currently have a fixed term vacancy 30hrs per week.

The post holder will be working as part of the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Infant Feeding Team, contributing to all aspects of the service, but focusing on infant feeding support at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced registered Nurse who:

Has specialist knowledge of the Baby friendly initiative and can help support the implementation of standards.

Has a keen interest in ensuring high standards of care and support for patients who are breastfeeding their babies.

Will provide expert knowledge, support, and advice to staff across the trust and be happy to deliver education in a classroom setting.

Will provide direct support to patients with feeding problems as required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.