Infant feeding Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves supporting families with newborn babies in their feeding journey, primarily focusing on breastfeeding. The post holder will work within the Maternity Infant Feeding Team at Ipswich Hospital, contributing to the implementation of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative standards. It requires providing advice and support to ensure high standards of patient care and working effectively within the midwifery and multi-professional healthcare team. The position is full-time, but job share will be considered.
Key responsibilities
- Support the Infant Feeding Lead in planning, implementation and maintenance of UNICEF baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards.
- Utilise working knowledge of clinical and public health guidelines relevant to local and national breastfeeding agendas.
- Meet the direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of a Registered Midwife.
- Ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines.
- Work as an effective member of the midwifery and wider multi-professional healthcare team.
- Work within the boundaries of the role of the MSW, supporting more junior colleagues and referring to the Registered Midwife as appropriate.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 (Health & Social Care) or equivalent
- Proven previous experience in supporting breastfeeding within a health or community setting.
- Tongue-tie recognition and management.
- Lone working in the community setting.
- Confident and competent in producing, evaluating and completing a feeding plan.
- Experience discussing and demonstrating responsive bottle feeding.
- Can demonstrate an awareness of benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby in line with UNICEF BFI standards.
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake further study
- Experience within an acute setting
- Experience running groups.
- Experience in mentoring / supervising staff.
- Understanding of risk management, health and safety issues, including safe manual handling.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £24,625 – £25,674 — matches the national scale.
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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Infant feeding Support Worker
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about breastfeeding and supporting close families and their babies? Are you enthusiastic about working with others to provide feeding support over the first few weeks of life?
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Ipswich hospital, ESNEFT to join the Maternity Infant Feeding Team as a Band 3 Support Worker provide infant feeding advice and support to families with newborn babies, to help them get their feeding journey off to the best start and continuing to provide ongoing support in the early postnatal period.
This is a full-time position, but job share will be considered for the right candidate.
The advert might close earlier if sufficient amount applications received.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Infant Feeding Lead in planning, implementation and maintenance of UNICEF baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards.
The post holder will have working knowledge of clinical and public health guidelines relevant to local and national breastfeeding agendas.
To meet the needs of the Trust with regard to Induction, mandatory and statutory training
To meet the direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of a Registered Midwife.
To ensure high standards of patien
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