Band 6 Infant Feeding Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
Package Description: We are looking for a passionate and experienced Infant Feeding Practitioner to join our dynamic community team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting families, improving infant feeding outcomes and contributing to Lancashires continued UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Accreditation. As an Infant Feeding Practitioner, you will provide specialist clinical expertise and leadership to support families experiencing infant feeding challenges while driving forward best practice across the workforce. You will work collaboratively with partners across health and social care to embed a culture that promotes breastfeeding, healthy infant feeding relationships and early child wellbeing. This role requires travel across Lancashire therefor the ability and willingness to travel is essential. Package Description £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day
Main duties of the job
Join our dynamic team as an Infant Feeding Practitioner, where you'll be instrumental in supporting families and improving infant feeding outcomes. Your role will involve providing specialist clinical expertise, leadership, and supporting families with challenges related to infant feeding. Collaborate with health and social care partners to foster a culture that promotes breastfeeding, healthy infant feeding relationships, and early child wellbeing. As part of the team, you'll contribute to maintaining Lancashires UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Accreditation. This position necessitates travel across Lancashire, requiring both ability and willingness to travel. The package includes a salary of £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata, NHS Pension, and full Agenda for Change terms. Enjoy benefits such as discounts on everyday purchases, access to wages as you earn them, and support for your mental and physical wellbeing. Our organisation prides itself on a just culture, quality standards, and equal opportunities for all.
About us
HCRG Care Group, one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, has been transforming health and care since 2006. They work with health and care commissioners to reshape services focusing on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. The organisation delivers a range of community health services, including adult and children community health services, primary care, urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, MSK services, and adult social care. Guided by simple values of 'Care, Think, Do,' HCRG Care Group directly supports over half a million people annually across England. They are committed to diversity, equal opportunities, and the safeguarding of vulnerable groups, making necessary adjustments to be inclusive for all. As a Disability Confident Committed company, they are dedicated to providing facilities, adjustments, and solutions for inclusivity. Potential candidates are encouraged to apply promptly, as popular roles might close earlier than stated.
Job responsibilities
Package Description:
We are looking for a passionate and experienced Infant Feeding Practitioner to join our dynamic community team.This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting families, improving infant feeding outcomes and contributing to Lancashires continued UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Accreditation .
As an Infant Feeding Practitioner, you will provide specialist clinical expertise and leadership to support families experiencing infant feeding challenges while driving forward best practice across the workforce.
You will work collaboratively with partners across health and social care to embed a culture that promotes breastfeeding, healthy infant feeding relationships and early child wellbeing .
This role requires travel across Lancashire therefor the ability and willingness to travel is essential.
Package Description
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Key Responsibilities
- Support delivery and sustainability of UNICEF Baby Friendly standards across community services
- Provide clinical support and advice to families, including complex infant feeding cases
- Deliver training, mentorship and education to multi-agency staff, including nursing and medical teams
- Lead and contribute to audits, service evaluations and quality improvement initiatives
- Promote culture change through campaigns, engagement and partnership working
- Contribute to policy development and service improvement
- Analyse data and evidence to inform and enhance service delivery
- Engage with service users to ensure services are co-produced and responsive to need
- Present best practice and service developments through reports or presentations
About You
We are looking for a compassionate, motivated professional who is committed to improving outcomes for children and families.
Essential:- Registered Nurse or Midwife
- Further study in lactation and infant feeding
- Experience working in multi-agency environments
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience delivering care both face-to-face and virtually
- Ability to work autonomously , prioritise workload and solve problems
- Demonstrated leadership capability
- Good digital skills (including Microsoft Office)
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Willingness to travel across Lancashire
- Lactation Consultant qualification
- Teaching or assessing qualification
What We offer
- The chance to shape and influence infant feeding practice at a population level
- A supportive and collaborative multi-disciplinary team environment
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
- The opportunity to work for an organisationdriven by its values: Care Think Do
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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