Infant Feeding Practitioner (Midwife)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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 is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Infant Feeding Practitioner (Midwife) to join the Women's and Children's Divisional Infant Feeding Team. The role involves supporting the BFI Stage 3 accredited service by providing care and advice to women with infant feeding concerns. You will also contribute to staff training, audits, and improvement work related to BFI compliance. The position is part-time, covering a six-day service from Monday to Saturday.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Willingness to undergo training relevant for role
- Evidence of ongoing professional development and training
Desirable criteria
- IBCLC International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
- Advanced clinical skills in tongue tie (Ankyloglossia)
- UNICEF BFI Courses
- Teaching / Training qualification
- Practice Assessor / Mentorship
- Supporting complex infant feeding challenges
- Participation with facilitating / delivering staff education or training
- Proficient IT skills (excel, databases, PowerPoint etc)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to negotiate and influence others in situations where there are barriers and challenges to change
- Values
- A commitment to quality and safety
- Respectful, showing compassion, respect and dignity
- Act as a role model to staff and students
- Experience of conducting audits
- Experience of implementing strategy and policy
- Experience of facilitating training to groups
- Substantive experience in infant feeding / infant feeding team
- Experience of BFI assessments
- Experience in project management
- Implementation of quality improvement projects
- Facilitating face to face / online parent education classes
- BFI Standards
- Complex feeding challenges
- Registered Midwife
- Willingness to undergo training relevant for role
- Evidence of ongoing professional development and training
- IBCLC International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
- Advanced clinical skills in tongue tie (Ankyloglossia)
- UNICEF BFI Courses
- Teaching / Training qualification
- Practice Assessor / Mentorship
- Supporting complex infant feeding challenges
- Participation with facilitating / delivering staff education or training
- Proficient IT skills (excel, databases, PowerPoint etc)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to negotiate and influence others in situations where there are barriers and challenges to change
- Values
- A commitment to quality and safety
- Respectful, showing compassion, respect and dignity
- Act as a role model to staff and students
- Experience of conducting audits
- Experience of implementing strategy and policy
- Experience of facilitating training to groups
- Substantive experience in infant feeding / infant feeding team
- Experience of BFI assessments
- Experience in project management
- Implementation of quality improvement projects
- Facilitating face to face / online parent education classes
- BFI Standards
- Complex feeding challenges
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Infant Feeding Practitioner (Midwife)
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Infant Feeding Practitioner (Midwife) within the Women's and Children's Divisional Infant Feeding Team . We have a 22.5 hour post available covering a six-day service Monday-Saturday.
The postholder will support our BFI Stage 3 accredited service and provide care and advice to women with infant feeding concerns/challenges. The role will also include supporting staff training and audits and improvement work associated with BFI compliance
Main duties of the job
The post holder will practice throughout the Women's and Children's Division (maternity, neonatal unit and child and adolescent unit) providing specialist clinical feeding support for patients with complex or ongoing challenges. The role also includes clinical duties within the trust's frenulotomy service following supported training if required.
The post holder will work under direction of the Infant Feeding Lead and closely with Neonatal and Paediatric Infant Feeding Practitioners supporting the implementation and maintenance of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation.
About us
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire (population 399
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