Infant Feeding Support Midwife

The post holder will contribute to providing a compassionate, sensitive and inclusive infant feeding service to the families within the Hull and East Yorkshire area (that covers Hull University Teaching Hospital). They will display warmth and communicate effectively with families to deliver a high-quality infant feeding support service.

They will work as part of a team to promote, protect and sustain best practice in relation to infant feeding across maternity services. This will include offering additional advanced support to families in an inpatient and outpatient environment.

The job holder will act as a role model for others, working supportively and in collaboration with health professionals and services across Hull and East Yorkshire.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a team utilizing the following skills to enable them to offer advanced support to our families:

Exhibit compassionate advanced communication skills

establish supportive and nurturing relationships with families to provide clinical expertise for parents with breastfeeding and other infant feeding related concerns.

guide conversations, actively listen and address families' concerns about infant feeding with honesty and compassion, in order to build trust and effectively impart public health messages..

To maintain and develop in depth specialist knowledge

undertake/maintain additional training in relation to infant feeding when the opportunity arises, for example additional UNICEF BFI courses and Frenulotomy training and be prepared to work towards this in a timely manner.

Use advanced knowledge to make assessments and advise on a range of complex ongoing infant feeding issues which require analysis, investigation, decision-making and solutions,

Oversee the day to day workload priorities, planning and provision of care by the infant feeding team in the absence of the infant feeding lead midwife.

Support the operation of a direct referral service for complex infant feeding problems

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.