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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
The Department of Public Health and Health Policy aims to improve and protect the health of people in Lothian as part of a whole system approach to public health in Scotland.
The post-holder will work with a project team within the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Team which is hosted in Public Health and Health Policy. The Maternal and Infant Nutrition team currently works with frontline staff across Neonatal, Maternity, Family Nursing and Health Visiting services to enhance their skills and knowledge around infant feeding. The service supports staff to support all mothers and parents during pregnancy and throughout early parenthood, regardless of how they feed their child, to have close and loving relationships with their baby by embedding the concept of responsive feeding.
Post: Project Midwife – Delivering Early Breastfeeding Support
Tenure: Post 1: 33.5hrs (consists of 4 x 7.5hrs weekdays and 3.5hrs on a Saturday) 1 year fixed term.
Post 2: 37.5hrs 1 year fixed term.
Salary: AfC Band 6
Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join NHS Lothian’s Public Health Department as an Project Midwife in the Delivering Early Breastfeeding Support (DEBS) project within the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Service. This project is successfully reducing the drop off in Breastfeeding at 6-8weeks by providing support in the ante-natal and early post natal perid. The post holder will work with existing project staff using quality improvement methodology to expand the project across West Lothian.
The successful post holder will work 4 days during the week with 3.5hrs on a Saturday.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. For further information and an informal discussion contact please contact the existing post holders:
Sharon.gilchrist@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Caroline.buchan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Or Strategic Programme Manager – Maternal and Infant Nutrition Tracy.McGillivray@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.