Specialist Infant Feeding Health Visitor - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Health Visiting band 7 Infant Feeding Specialist Health Visitor - part time 4 days per week 30 hrs. This is a 2-year fixed term secondment cover until end of August 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Infant Feeding Specialist Health Visitor within the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

A clean driving license, access to a car or alternative transport i.e., bicycle is anessentialrequirement of this post.

You will organise and deliver UNICEF Baby Friendly training and assessment of Health Visiting staff in conjunction with the management team and clinical specialist educator.

You will be responsible for leading the audit programme for the Health Visiting service to ensure Baby Friendly accreditation Level 3 is maintained.

You will ensure that the Health Visiting service has in place robust working practices that will deliver on the strategic level outcomes.

You will support Children Centre colleagues who are working with women and families to support their feeding choices.

You will be required to plan and organise your own workload around the infant feeding strategy in Lewisham and Greenwich.

You will be a role model who is supportive to fellow colleagues, team managers, the neighbourhood health visitor lead and regular clinical delivery You will be an enthusiastic individual, possessing good organisational and communication skills and have the ability as a infant feeding specialist to implement new initiatives and to motivate members of the health visiting teams across Lewisham.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham.

We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years.

This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain.

Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention.

We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

To promote effective working relationships by liaising with colleagues, GP's, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary agencies

To communicate highly sensitive and complex information to appropriate parties by promoting effective working relationships within their integrated teams

To support staff to undertake child and family health assessments in partnership with the family and, where needed, use the Common Assessment Framework to develop specific family health plans to meet long term health and parenting needs

To train staff in the use of Baby Friendly UNICEF/ Trust breastfeeding assessment tool.

To organise and deliver (working closely with public health & Clinical Practice Educator) level 3 breast feeding training and assessment of staff

To act as a resource and support to other practitioners working with women and families to support their feeding choices

To interpret, evaluate and implement the effective working practices that deliver on the outcomes agreed at a strategic level (KPI)

To take the lead in audits relating to infant feeding as required by the trust and as part of the continued BFI assessment

To plan and organise own workload around the infant feeding Lewisham and Greenwich

To lead in the on-going delivery of breast-feeding hubs across the borough

To contribute to the local health inequalities agenda liaising with colleagues and wider multi agency partners