Lead Midwife for Infant Feeding

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated midwife to join our maternity team as the lead infant feeding midwife. This role will provide strategic and clinical leadership for infant feeding services across maternity supporting the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care in line with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Standards.

You will be a passionate advocate for breastfeeding and responsive infant feeding, with excellent leadership, communication and teaching skills. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to promote safe, effective and inclusive infant feeding support for women, birthing people and families.

This is an excellent opportunity for a forward-thinking midwife to influence and develop infant feeding services while improving outcomes for families across our service.

We welcome any applicants with previous or current experience with working with Baby friendly accreditation.

Main duties of the job

The infant feeding lead midwife will provide visible clinical and professional leadership for infant feeding services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care.

The post holder will: •    Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of the trusts infant feeding strategy and action plans  •    Coordinate and support the maintenance of UNICEF baby friendly initiative standards and accreditation  •    Provide specialist infant feeding support and clinical expertise for complex feeding situations  •    Act as an expert on breastfeeding and infant feeding practice.  •    Develop, deliver and evaluate infant feeding education and training programmes  •    Lead on audit, quality improvement and service evaluation actives relating to infant feeding outcomes  •    Promote inclusive, culturally sensitive and family-centred approached to infant feeding support  •    Act as a professional role model, demonstrating compassionate leadership and advocating for high standards of care at all times

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 3 June 2026

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 15 June 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.