Infant Feeding Lead


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	NOTTINGHAM, NG6 0HD
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	11 Aug 2026
Closing date:	24 Aug 2026

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Summary

Job Purpose The Infant Feeding Lead plays a key role in the delivery of the infant feeding strategy for Nottingham City, ensuring high quality, evidence based breastfeeding support for families. To work across Nottingham City as part of The Childrens Public Health 0-19 Nursing Service. Supporting delivery of breastfeeding and infant nutrition interventions as part of the Healthy Child Programme for babies, children and families. Helping families achieve their breastfeeding goals. Act as an expert practitioner, role model and specialist resource. Provide a visible presence delivering clinical leadership and supervision to staff supporting breastfeeding families. Overseeing delivery of breastfeeding clinics/groups providing face to face or virtual care. Liaising with lead professionals and specialist services, such as infant feeding cafe and tongue-tie services where necessary. In partnership with the Health Visitor caseload holders you will responsible and accountable for managing an assigned caseload, delivering breastfeeding packages of care to families with the most complex breastfeeding issues. Support the improvement of breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates in Nottingham City. To work collegiately with other key partners to ensure the delivery of high-quality childrens services throughout Nottingham City. Deliver training to staff supporting the Nottingham City Infant feeding, Breastfeeding and Nutrition strategies. Ensuring UNICEF baby friendly standards underpin training, policy and practice. Your practice must adhere to clinical guidelines, policies, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) both on a local and national level and you must demonstrate Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC values and behaviours in all you do. Dimensions The Infant Feeding Lead will be responsible for: Staff supervision, including aspects of human resource policy and procedure. Confident autonomous practitioner. Financial management, to work in a cost-effective manner. Work in partnership to join up and enhance services delivered through transformed family hubs in the local authority area, ensuring all parents and carers can access the support they need when they need it. Work effectively with a wide range of diverse families to identify their breastfeeding needs, contributing to a reduction in inequalities in health outcomes for babies, children and families. Support service improvement by leading and/or participating in corporate and local work programmes, projects, workshops, or other initiatives; and supporting the implementation of new working practices. Maintain own registration, mandatory and role specific training. Core service hours are 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. Key Responsibilities Quality and performance To work within professional code of conduct. Actively working as a member of the integrated Childrens Public Health 0-19 Nursing Service to provide high quality, consistent care to service users. Develop therapeutic working relationships with families, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods. Assessment, planning, implementation, and analytic evaluation of holistic care linked to programmes of care. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often clinically related, highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behavior change strategies. Be responsible for and able to assess and interpret complex written and verbal referrals/reports. Demonstrate effective management and leadership skills. Clinically tirage, prioritise and allocate infant feeding packages of care to members of the skill mix team. Act as a Clinical Leader and play an active role in ensuring that staff understand the CQC standards and KLOEs and what individual team members do to help achieve those standards. Providing consultation to the Childrens Public Health 0-19 Nursing Service on identified babies/ infants and families and advising on appropriate care or referral. In partnership with Clinical Service Managers and Clinical Educators support the supervision, training and development of Nottingham CityCare Partnership staff, staff in partner organisations and students. Drive forward and achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and statutory requirements. To actively engage in the reflective supervision process, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods is developed and maintained and that the service offered is high quality. To use evidence-based programmes, materials, and methods, in a range of settings to give children the best start in life. Work with partners, for example Early Help teams, Family Hubs, GPs, Midwives and Social Care, where families have ongoing needs requiring multi agency support. Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. Support the use of electronic communication for sharing ideas, content, information and messages. Digital media may include text messages, emails, internet based messaging services and web chats. Actively contribute to maintenance and security of equipment. Contribute to the promotion and uptake of enhanced offers/incentive schemes to children and families e.g. imagination library, Healthy Start. Contribute to activities aimed at increasing service efficiencies and reducing environmental impact i.e. reduced printing and signposting to alternative resources. Support the Nottingham CityCare volunteering policy in recruitment, training, and supervision of Breastfeeding Peer Support volunteers. Undertake any other duties which may be reasonably required within the remit of the role. Professional Work in accordance with Nottingham City Local Safeguarding Childrens Board procedures. Provide and receive routine information, orally, in writing or electronically in line with Nottingham CityCare policy and abiding by legal requirements. Ensure clear, accurate and up to date recording of information on electronic record keeping systems, eg SystmOne, as per local record keeping policy. Complete all appropriate records/documents in a clear, accurate and timely way, participating in reporting processes as necessary. Ensure robust communication systems exist between key stakeholders including, general practice, education, social care, public health, and voluntary services. Keep up-to-date with, interpreting and critically evaluating current literature. Lead on the development and review of clinically relevant policy and standard operating procedures. To observe the World Health Organisation International code of marketing breast milk substitutes and promotes the code within Nottingham CityCare Partnership. Seek and act upon feedback from service users via organisational mechanisms. To participate in the appraisal process of and development of own objectives. Participate in safeguarding supervision, organisational and team meetings as required. Identify and report risk as per organisational policy. Stock and resource procurement, management and distribution. Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with organisational policy. Contribute to effective working in a changing environment as services develop, and to undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required within the remit of the role. Maintain accurate diary in accordance with lone working policy and adhere to mobile working guidance. At all times ensure that own actions support and promote equality, diversity and the rights of patients, the public and colleagues within the health care environment. To conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times during the undertaking of your work. To dress in accordance with Nottingham CityCare Partnership policies.

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