Special Feed Maker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves working in the Special Feed Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital, preparing specialist infant feeds, oral supplements, and enteral feeds for inpatients. The successful candidate will accurately weigh and measure feed constituents, adhering to strict hygiene protocols and procedures. The unit prepares feeds for approximately 120 children daily, requiring exceptional attention to detail and good literacy and numeracy skills.
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 5 Level 2 qualifications including English Language and Mathematics
Desirable criteria
- Food Hygiene Certificate
- Knowledge of Food safety and safe food handling achieved through training
- IT literate and able to use Microsoft application including word and email
- Evidence of ability to interpret numerical information
- Experience of weighing and measuring accurately
- Evidence of use of problem solving skills
- Physically fit and able to undertake manual handling duties
- Evidence of ability to meet strict deadlines
- Significant practical experience of food handling and food safety
- Experience of working in a food or feed preparation environment
- Experience of measuring constituents to a high degree of accuracy ( 0.5g and 0.5ml)
- Experience of preparing special feeds
- Experience in interpreting graphs
- A minimum of 5 Level 2 qualifications including English Language and Mathematics
- Food Hygiene Certificate
- Knowledge of Food safety and safe food handling achieved through training
- IT literate and able to use Microsoft application including word and email
- Evidence of ability to interpret numerical information
- Experience of weighing and measuring accurately
- Evidence of use of problem solving skills
- Physically fit and able to undertake manual handling duties
- Evidence of ability to meet strict deadlines
- Significant practical experience of food handling and food safety
- Experience of working in a food or feed preparation environment
- Experience of measuring constituents to a high degree of accuracy ( 0.5g and 0.5ml)
- Experience of preparing special feeds
- Experience in interpreting graphs
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Special Feed Maker
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an individual to work alongside a small friendly team of staff in the Special Feed Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital. The special feed unit prepare specialist infant feeds, oral supplement and enteral feeds for inpatients requiring specialist nutritional support and who are under the care of the Dietitians, preparing feeds for around 120 children daily.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to prepare special feeds for inpatients who require specialist nutrition using feed regimes prepared by the Dietitians . You will need to show expectational attention to detail, be able to weigh and measure feed constituents accurately, and to adhere closely to procedures. Our feeds are prepared using strict hygiene protocols to ensure they are safe to give to our most vulnerable patients.
You must have a good level of literacy, numeracy and be able to communicate effectively. You will ideally have either worked in a large scale catering business preparing food, or in a healthcare clinical setting, delivering patient care, and be physically fit and able to undertake moving and handling duties.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in
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