Infant Feeding Lead -SCBU
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Dorchester
Contract type: Full time
The Infant Feeding Lead for SCBU will be responsible for promoting UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative with specific responsibility to provide managerial support and clinical expertise within the Neonatal Unit regarding all aspects of infant feeding. Will also be responsible for the delivery of all training and education of all health professionals and also provide specialist advice and support to parents/carers with feeding issues. And finally, lead the implementation and evaluation of UNICEF BFI accreditation, ensuring best practice standards and the ability to gain full accreditation.
The post holder is expected to work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary Team, and more specifically with the Family Integrated Care Lead and the Infant Feeding Lead for Maternity.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the UNICEF Baby Friendly accreditation process and for implementing change and improvement with all aspects related to Infant Feeding in SCBU, working collaboratively with Maternity Infant Feeding Lead and the multidisciplinary team in the unit.
We are a level 1 neonatal unit, who delivers special care and transitional care to infants from 32 weeks gestation and onwards. Our Team is very motivated to always provide the best standard of care to all our Families and we are continuously improving our practice. As an example we are working towards our Family Integrated Care accreditation with BLISS.
We are part of Dorset County Hospital, which is a general district hospital, where care is provided to families across West Dorset.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Debora Pascoal Horta Job title: Neonatal Matron Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07825263581
The post holder is expected to work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary Team, and more specifically with the Family Integrated Care Lead and the Infant Feeding Lead for Maternity.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the UNICEF Baby Friendly accreditation process and for implementing change and improvement with all aspects related to Infant Feeding in SCBU, working collaboratively with Maternity Infant Feeding Lead and the multidisciplinary team in the unit.
We are a level 1 neonatal unit, who delivers special care and transitional care to infants from 32 weeks gestation and onwards. Our Team is very motivated to always provide the best standard of care to all our Families and we are continuously improving our practice. As an example we are working towards our Family Integrated Care accreditation with BLISS.
We are part of Dorset County Hospital, which is a general district hospital, where care is provided to families across West Dorset.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Debora Pascoal Horta Job title: Neonatal Matron Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07825263581
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