Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife

An Exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Midwife to join our Infant Feeding Team on a secondment basis. This role offers the chance to develop specialist skills while supporting our journey towards UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative re-accreditation.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively across maternity and neonatal services to promote evidence-based infant feeding practices and deliver high-quality, compassionate care for families. You will support education and training for staff, contribute to audit and quality improvement activities, and provide specialist clinical support for families with complex feeding needs.

We are seeking a midwife who is passionate about improving infant feeding outcomes and committed to delivering excellent care in line with NHS values. This is a fantastic development opportunity to make a real difference to babies, parents and the wider team.

The post holder will support the delivery of safe, high-quality and evidence-based infant feeding care in-line with NHS values and national guidance. They will play a key role in achieving and maintaining a UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative re-accreditation, supporting education, audit and service improvement across the maternity service.

The role involves providing specialist clinical advice and hands-on support to families with complex feeding needs, ensuring compassionate, person-centred care. The Post holder will contribute to policy development, data collection, and quality improvement projects and act as a role model and resource for colleagues, collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team will be essential to promote consistent, equitable and sustainable infant feeding standards across the service.

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values ofTogether - Safe, Kind, Excellentsupport the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes., At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.