Infant feeding Community Nursery Nurse

Band 4 Infant Feeding Community Nursery Nurse ( 2 year Fixed Term) Are you an experienced Community Nursery Nurse with looking for the new opportunities within a community setting? Are you passionate about infant feeding and providing excellent services for children and young people? Do you want to be part of the team supporting women with their feeding choices and helping the service work towards achieving its BFI accreditation? Do you have a proven record of excellent child development assessment skills? If so, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to recruit you in the role as a Infant Feeding Community Nursery Nurse. This is a new role for SWB Health Visiting service where you will work as part of the Infant Feeding Team, undertaking a range of activities including supporting breastfeeding and infant feeding choices and delivering key public health messages., As an Infant Feeding Community Nursery Nurse You will:

• Make contact with and support all parents to make informed choices regarding feeding and implement plans to enable parents to initiate and establish feeding their baby regardless of their chosen feeding method.
• Work as part of a team delivering care to babies, children their families, ensuring that their health and developmental needs are prioritised.
• Provide advice and support to mothers, children/young people and their families with low level issues around infant feeding.
• Help build a positive breastfeeding culture in communities, provide low level Breastfeeding support in response to requests from families
• Support parent/infant relationships and promote sensitive and attuned parenting to develop secure attachments.
  
  Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities. We have three newly emerging strategic objectives: 1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff 2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do 3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live