Bank Infant Feeding Practitioner

This is an opportunity to work with the Infant Feeding Practitioners in the Derbyshire area on a flexible working pattern.

You will work across Derbyshire as part of the infant feeding practitioner team. This role is part of the 0-5 Children's Service and will involve close work with health visitors and midwives in the local area.

You will be visiting new families in the immediate post birth period to provide support for breast feeding. Contact will be both face to face and using digital technology.

You will need to be confident to support infant feeding and have knowledge and awareness of skills around breast feeding. Initial training will be given., You will work as part of the health visiting team to offer peer support to women who are establishing breast feeding whilst ensuring that you also engage with partners, wider family members and the community.

You will provide a high standard of information about infant feeding and support to mothers, partners and their babies before and after the birth, in a range of settings, for example home and clinics.

You will utilise a range of assessment skills and tools to identify breast feeding problems and give evidence based information to promote and support responsive feeding in line with national and local guidelines and public health priorities.

You will work proactively using a partnership approach to promote health and contribute to tackling health inequalities within the level of competencies required for the post.

There will be a requirement to travel across Derbyshire for service delivery. Training and service meetings may take place in other parts of Derbyshire.

DCHS is a forward-thinking, supportive Trust, which is a UNICEF Baby-Friendly accredited organisation and achieved Outstanding CQC status in 2022.

Working in a diverse area you will be delivering public health work around infant nutrition within the local community.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.