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Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.
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To promote and deliver evidence based practice in relation to maternal and infant nutrition across NHS Lothian.
To assist in the implementation and delivery of the maternal and infant nutrition action plan ensuring collaborative working with a broad range of stakeholders, promoting a cultural shift in infant feeding throughout the first year of life in order to reduce inequalities and improve health within Lothian.
To assist in the co-ordination, implementation and review of strategies to ensure health care professionals, and other stakeholders are adequately trained in infant feeding management.
Post: Infant Feeding Nurse
Tenure: permanent – 18.5hrs
Salary: £31,892 - £39,735
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-holders will work within the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Service which is hosted within 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.
Part time Infant feeding nurse (Band 5):
An exciting opportunity to join the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Service as an Infant Feeding nurse. The successful post holder will work primarily with the Band 6 Infant Feeding Advisor supporting Neonatal services to implement the UNICEF Baby Friendly standards. This varied role will include co-facilitating training, auditing staff and families as well as having a role in supporting projects to improve support to all families as they feed their children. This post will be based within Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh but there may be a requirement to work across NHS Lothian sites.
For further information and an informal discussion contact please contact: Sharon.Gilchrist@nhs.scot or Yvonne.Fairholm@nhs.scot
We are recruiting to the post of NHSL 208201 Infant Feeding Nurse Midwife
NHS Lothian is excited to be recruiting to a Infant Feeding Nurse at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
We are looking for an inspirational leader who is caring, compassionate and motivated to join our strong, empowered and highly skilled nursing family.
Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.
Recruitment process – We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set our in our Strategic Plan. Within NHS Lothian, Nursing and Midwifery interviews are linked to our Nursing & Midwifery Strategic Plan. We aim to offer an equitable experience and are sharing interview questions in advance. A selection of the interview questions can be found on our Careers site: How to Apply – NHS Lothian Careers