The infant feeding lead will have a key organisational role for developing and maintaining high standards of infant feeding across the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital Trust. They will be an innovative practitioner and an effective change agent promoting evidence-based practice and maintaining/progressing Baby Friendly status for the Trust alongside BFI champions in NICU and Paediatrics areas.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Take the lead for planning, setting, maintaining and evaluating agreed standards for infant feeding including developing strategies for achieving and sustaining the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative status.
2. Promote the public health benefits of breast feeding and lead to improve the continuation of breast feeding in line with Baby Friendly Initiative Standards.
3. Provide clinical specialist infant feeding support and advice where required alongside existing workforce using expert knowledge and judgement to provide individualised care/support packages.
4. Ensure there is a training strategy to provide foundation and updates for all members of the multidisciplinary team.
5. Identify the specific educational needs of individual parents and facilitate meeting those needs through the provision of specialist education, care and support.
6. Contribute to the delivery of infant feeding training programmes and workshops for health professionals and women.
7. Implement and embed clinical practice changes which demonstrate evidenced-based individualised care and detection of emergent themes within clinical areas through localised robust governance process.
8. Work in partnership with local services and providers to increase breastfeeding rates as part of improving health outcomes.
9. Monitor and audit progress towards achieving the standards required to achieve BFI accreditation.
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond. Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
* Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
* On-site Nurseries
* On-site staff cafes
* On-site parking
* Support in career development
* Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org
Educational Responsibilities:
1. Ensure there is a training strategy to provide foundation and updates for all members of the multidisciplinary team.
2. To lead teaching, mentoring and assessment of staff in relation to infant feeding, providing written reports as required. Monitor training and maintain database.
3. Actively promote breast feeding training opportunities.
4. Review information available for parents, ensuring that information given is based on nationally accepted standards and is made available in languages relevant to the locality in a variety of formats.
5. Develop a positive learning environment for students and staff which encourages everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
Managerial and Organisational Responsibilities:
1. Line manage and appraise infant feeding team.
2. Provide support and advice for infant feeding peer support volunteers.
3. To provide expert leadership and service design and provide support to managers, clinicians, patients and other stakeholders to enable a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency approach to achieving BFI accreditation.
4. Implement and embed clinical practice changes which demonstrate evidenced-based individualised care and detection of emergent themes within clinical areas through localised robust governance process.
Research and Audit:
1. Monitor and audit progress towards achieving the standards required to achieve BFI accreditation.
2. Participate in research and audit process relevant to the post to ensure the development of evidence-based innovative practice.
3. Ensure that research findings and reports related to breast feeding are shared with the multi-disciplinary team.
4. Develop and implement a communication plan to ensure all stakeholders are aware of and appropriately engage with infant feeding.
Undertake any additional activities as deemed appropriate by the Director of Midwifery/ Divisional Chief Nurse/ Head of Midwifery.
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