Infant Feeding Lead Midwife

Exciting opportunity to join Chesterfield Royal Hospital Midwifery Team as an Infant Feeding Lead on a 15 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave

Chesterfield Birth Centre provides co-located midwife and consultant led labour ward facilities, which include 4 birthing pools.

Our maternity inpatient ward offers a calm and welcoming environment for women and their families.

We also have a Community Midwifery service centred around 4 local bases /GP surgery providing care for around 2500 women per year.

We are a fully accredited Baby Friendly unit.

We have an established infant feeding service which provides, antenatal breast feeding conversations within the community, inpatient hospital based feeding support and post natal support and guidance.

We are committed to supporting every family to get their infant feeding journey off to the best start.

Job Summary

Act as the Specialist Midwife in relation to infant feeding across the Maternity Services, including community midwifery, ensuring a co-ordinated approach to infant feeding support.

Provide expert knowledge as a clinical educator in the promotion and support of evidenced based infant feeding management. You will have a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills which you will use to manage, develop, and lead the clinical team in all aspects of the infant feeding service within the Family Care Division.

To ensure all staff are able to support mothers and their families in their choice of infant feeding.

Lead on the planning, implementation, maintenance, and reaccreditation of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative standards across the service.

A Job share will be considered.

Our vision: Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.

Our mission: To bring our people communities and partners together, providing patient care we are proud of. We all play a part in achieving this, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other. As members of staff we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC .

We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient car

Please refer to the relevant job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post.