Infant Feeding Team Midwife

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a fantastic opportunity for band 6 midwives to rotate into the Infant Feeding Team. You will be promoting good infant feeding practices throughout the unit to women and maternity staff. You will be supporting the team to provide infant feeding expertise, education and audit to work towards the level 3 Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation.

You will support the multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality infant feeding support, ensuring excellent service user experience. Whilst ensuring the timely management and support of any feeding difficulties referring to specialists where appropriate.

The post holder will work closely with the Infant Feeding Coordinators, Postnatal Ward Managers, Community Midwives and Matron for Public Health. There will be opportunities to develop the post-holders' skills including receiving training

Please Note: This job is not eligible for overseas sponsorship or for international educated midwives without a current full NMC Pin or new to midwifery practice in the UK.

This role is mainly weekdays with some weekend working required. You will be required to work flexibly to support the service demands., To promote, support, protect and normalise breastfeeding in their everyday practise in line with the Maternity Infant Feeding Policy.

To ensure all women receive support and information to allow them to make an informed choices regarding infant feeding.

To be able to motivate, inspire and empower staff to achieve best practice.

To act as an infant feeding resource within the clinical area, supporting staff to enable mothers to carry out feeding in an evidence based and effective manner.

To work closely with the Infant Feeding Specialist (IFS) and the rest of the Infant Feeding Team (IFT) in order to initiate new ideas, practices and approaches to direct clinical care of mothers and babies.

To work with the Infant Feeding Specialist and IFT to provide infant feeding training throughout the maternity service for all staff who come in to contact with new mothers so that they are confident to provide a high standard of basic infant feeding care.

About us

Here in Oxfordshire, we offer women and healthcare professionals a unique set up of our Maternity Services where around 7500 babies are born annually. We have 4 stand-alone Midwifery Led Birth units within the county based at Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage and Wallingford as well as offering home births to all areas. There is also an integrated birth unit where around 10% of birthing people choose to go in labour. As a large Tertiary hospital, the John Radcliffe offers a large Delivery Suite with an en-suite birthing pool room, 3 Maternity theatres and a specific Maternity Recovery Ward.

For those working with us, we have a substantial support network for staff, focusing on wellbeing and development. This includes a team of professional Midwifery Advocates, Wellbeing Champions, staff networks and a staff Maternity Psychologist. You will be supported by the Practice Development Team who provide regular study days and updates and support staff clinically. We champion diversity and strive to ensure every member of our team feels included, valued, and has the confidence to speak up and be heard.

We genuinely believe that by supporting our staff to feel happy and offering support within their work environment, we ensure the best quality of care for the women and birthing people who access our services.