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Infant Feeding Specialist - 2 posts: Bromley 0-19 and Greenwich 0 to 4

Employer
Bromley Healthcare CIC
Location
Greenwich or Bromley
Salary
£29,553 - £36,265 per annum incl HCAS
Closing date
5 Jun 2022

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Sector
Healthcare & Medical
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Flexibility
Flexible working available

Job Details

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk.

Please note that for positions that require you to drive as part of your job role we will be asking for evidence of business insurance. 

 

Job overview

 

This advert is for two Infant Feeding Specialists; one will be based in Greenwich and the other will be based in Bromley. The postholders will form part of the Health Visiting Teams in the boroughs. 

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a committed, self-driven, motivated practitioner who has the enthusiasm and passion to drive forward the infant feeding service and support staff to achieve UNICEF BFI stage 3 accreditation.

 

The post holder will work in partnership with the Infant Feeding Lead on the planning, implementation, maintenance and accreditation of UNICEF BFI standards across the service. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will ensure that a co-ordinated approach to infant feeding support and management is adopted.

 

 

Main duties of the job

 

  • Working with Infant Feeding Lead, ensure the ongoing maintenance of the UNICEF BFI standards in community settings.
  • Work with Infant Feeding Lead to develop and promote standardised evidence based professional practice in relation to infant feeding across the Bromley 0 to 19 Children’s Public Health Service
  • Support the Infant Feeding Lead in chairing the Bromley 0 to 19 infant feeding working group, planning meetings including preparation of agendas, taking notes and ensuring timely completion of relevant actions.
  • To organise available resources to meet local/national targets and UNICEF BFI criteria, re-prioritising as necessary in response to evolving need.
  • Effectively manage own time and prioritise workload in order to achieve agreed objectives and targets.
  • In conjunction with Infant Feeding Lead, regularly review progress towards agreed work objectives, providing written and verbal reports as required

 

 

Working for our organisation

 

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. 

 

Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point.

 

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

 

We are passionate about caring for our service users, and their family and friends, as well as the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we encourage all colleagues to take up the offer of the Coronavirus vaccination. The government are currently consulting on whether to continue with planned legislation that would make vaccination a legal requirement for certain roles in the health and care sector. It may become a legal requirement for some roles at Bromley Healthcare.

 

As such, all applicants should be mindful of this when applying to join us and may be required to evidence their vaccination status prior to joining or once they have joined. This includes non-clinical roles that may have contact with patients and service users by virtue of entering our premises.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

You will provide expert knowledge around infant feeding and will have the ability to facilitate learning for clinical and support staff.

 

The post holder works with the Locality Lead to support practice in relation to infant feeding and the post holder will have the ability to develop infant feeding initiatives/guidelines in response to local, regional and national guidance.

 

Audit and action planning experience is essential as you will be required to monitor and measure implementation of best practice standards for pregnant mothers, breastfeeding women and their infants.

 

The successful applicant must be driven by a passion to provide effective personalised care with a commitment to achieving a recognised national Accreditation across the service. You should be an enthusiastic health professional with excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and empower others.

 

Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work autonomously and as part of a wider team are essential.

Company

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme.

Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and part of the NHS family.

But we are a little different; we like to think that we stand out from typical NHS organisations as Bromley Healthcare CIC is actually a co-owned social enterprise, co-owned by its employees. This means that our staff remain on NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (providing you are eligible), if not we can offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.

What difference does this make?

Because our Nurses, therapists and support staff co-own Bromley Healthcare CIC and have a real say in how our services are run, this has created a greater sense of ownership, responsibility & motivation among our staff which in turn creates better quality for our patients & families.

If you are keen to work for a dynamic, forward thinking but different type of NHS employer then Bromley Healthcare could be for you!

From health visiting to district nursing, school nurses to specialist nurses, our nursing services help new parents to care for new born children and older people to continue living at home through care and support. We also have a wide range of therapy services for adults and children, including speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy whilst our specialist services focus on preventing diseases and supporting those living with specific conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or diabetes.

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