Job overview
Join Our Infant Feeding Service
Are you an experienced midwife seeking an exciting and rewarding opportunity? Our infant feeding team is looking for an experienced midwife who would like to expand their skills and experience supporting women in their infant feeding journey.
Why Join Us?
✅ Supportive & Inclusive Team – Work in a small collaborative and friendly team.
✅ Do something new and exciting – Deliver innovative and supportive infant feeding care
✅ Develop new skills - enhance your skills and knowledge of supportive infant feeding practices as well as service development and improvement.
Who Are We Looking For?
✔ A motivated and organised Midwife
✔ Someone eager to learn, develop, and excel
✔ A team player who wants to deliver focused interventions to improve the experience of infant feeding at the Trust.
Be Part of Something Bigger
Join a small team who are part of something much bigger. Together you will contribute to the training and education of maternity staff embedding evidence based practice to support infant feeding. Offering breastfeeding support in inpatient settings, alongside supportive daily drop ins. You will also support community infant feeding queries. Join with Midwives, Obstetricians and Neonatal staff to provide personalised and holistic care. Be part of delivering group education, community support and infant feeding plans
📞 For more information, contact
Sally Underwood 07930313851
Closing date: 27th May 2026
Interview date: 5th June 2026
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be an experienced midwife who will join the Infant Feeding Team. This post requires an enthusiastic midwife with a passion for infant feeding in maternity care to support this service and contribute to the care of woman and their babies.
The post holder will be supporting infant feeding and management. of the drop in service. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and this will include facilitating structured group education sessions, inpatient assessments and community support. You will develop and enhance your existing infant feeding skills to help support and offer evidence based advice to women. You will be expected to contribute to development and audit of the service so we remain on a journey of continuous improvement.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
·Work autonomously within scope of professional practice, delivering safe, individualised and evidence-based care within a defined specialist area of midwifery practice, making clinical decisions and prioritising care within defined guidelines.
·Undertake comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for women and babies, including those with complex or additional needs relevant to the specialist area, taking appropriate action in response to clinical findings, including escalation where required.
·Provide advice, support and guidance to women and families within the specialist pathway, promoting informed choice and personalised care.
·Demonstrate sound clinical judgement in the assessment and monitoring of maternal and fetal wellbeing, taking appropriate action and escalating concerns where required.
·Maintain and apply core midwifery clinical skills and, where appropriate, undertake additional clinical skills relevant to the role and individual competence ( specialist assessments, monitoring or medicines management under midwifery exemptions/PGDs).
·Where required, contribute to the delivery of direct clinical care within the wider maternity service, utilising full midwifery skills to support safe, effective care for women and babies.
·Contribute to the planning and organisation of care within the specialist area, including supporting follow-up and continuity for a caseload of women with support from the MPL or a midwifery manager.
·Support the MPL and, where appropriate, deputise within scope of competence.
Communication
·Communicate effectively with women, pregnant people, families and carers, including conveying complex, sensitive or distressing information.
·Act as an advocate to support personalised evidence-based choices and care.
·Provide information, education and support tailored to the needs of women within the specialist area.
·Maintain clear and accurate documentation whether using paper documents or electronic records.
·Maintain confidentiality of patient information in accordance with Trust policies.
Care Coordination and MDT Working
·Contribute to the coordination and organisation of care for defined groups of women within a specialist pathway, clinic or service.
·Act as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team, supporting communication and coordination across services, including reviews, ward rounds, case conferences and liaison to promote optimal care.
·Act as a point of contact within the team for defined aspects of care with escalation to the MPL as required.
·Liaise with internal and external agencies to support safe and holistic care and document safely and comprehensively.
Leadership, Supervision and Professional Practice
·Provide clinical support, advice and guidance to junior staff, students and support workers.
·Act as a role model for high standards of midwifery care and professional practice.
·Contribute to maintaining safe standards of care within the specialist area.
·Escalate risks, incidents or concerns appropriately to the MPL, Doctor or senior manager.
Governance, Quality and Service Improvement
·Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical standards, guidelines and care pathways.
·Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and governance activities.
·Support the collection, monitoring and interpretation of data relevant to the specialist area.
·Participate in research activity within the specialist area, supporting recruitment, data collection and adherence to study protocols where applicable.
·Work in accordance with research governance frameworks and relevant regulatory requirements if involved in research activity
·Take an active role in risk assessment, identifying risks and supporting the implementation of strategies to minimise harm. Ensuring incidents and near misses are reported, promoting a no blame culture.
·Ensure all staff act in accordance with Local, Hospital and Statutory Guidelines & Policies including Health and Safety initiatives.
·Facilitate a high-quality, cost-effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust
·Support the effective use of clinical resources and contribute to the organisation of workload within the team.
Education and Development
·Contribute to education and training activities within the specialist area.
·Maintain and develop professional knowledge and skills in line with NMC requirements.
·Support dissemination of learning and good practice within scope of practice using various mechanisms across the MDT.
·Support the development of others through mentorship, supervision and teaching, including being a practice assessor/supervisor contributing to assessments of competence.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
1. BSc Midwifery or Public Health
2. Mentorship/SSSA
3. NMC Registered Midwife
4. UNICEF BFI course
Desirable criteria
5. Project Management qualification/experience
6. Working towards or achieved Masters Lactation Consultant
7. Advanced Infant Feeding Peer Supporter
Experience
Essential criteria
8. Can practice as an autonomous midwife in the acute and primary care setting
9. Experience with clinical databases
10. Experience of working with women with complex medical and or social conditions
11. Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
Skills
Essential criteria
12. Knowledge of research methodologies
13. Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit.
Desirable criteria
14. Experience of taking charge of a ward
15. Experience of running a clinic
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.