Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife

Are you passionate about supporting new families and enhancing infant feeding practices? Join us as an Infant Feeding Specialist Lead Midwife and make a meaningful difference!

At Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, we pride ourselves on delivering outstanding maternity care. Our mission is to provide compassionate, evidence-based support to new families, ensuring the best possible start for their newborns. We are committed to fostering a nurturing environment where both parents and babies can thrive.

As the Infant Feeding Specialist Lead Midwife, you will play a pivotal role in guiding and supporting new parents through their infant feeding journey. You will lead initiatives to promote breastfeeding and ensure that all families receive personalised, expert care tailored to their needs. Your expertise and passion will be integral to shaping our infant feeding policies and practices.

Main duties of the job

Lead in collaboration with the PRUH Infant Feeding Lead Specialist Midwife to achieve and maintain the standards for UNICEF baby friendly accreditation bespoke standards for Kings College Hospital maternity unit.

Be responsible for the development of systems of assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating breast feeding advice and support given to the mothers and families of all babies being born at Kings College Hospital, to ensure care provided is of the highest quality and research based.

Ensure policies, guidelines, procedures and leaflets are updated on a regular basis and changes disseminated to staff as may be required.

Work closely with the neonatal unit in targeting support and advice to mothers with babies at risk: twins, small for gestational age, borderline premature, babies of diabetic mothers etc.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order tomeet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.