Family Health Infant Feeding Lead Coordinator
Band 7
Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.
We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.
Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Job overview
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate and experienced Infant Feeding Lead Coordinator to join the Family Health Infant Feeding Support Team.
This pivotal role will lead infant feeding strategy across both Maternity and Neonatal services, driving forward our Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation and ensuring equitable, high‑quality support for all families.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of infant feeding services across the division.
Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of infant feeding policies and practices in line with BFI standards.
Coordinate and support a multidisciplinary team to deliver consistent, evidence‑based care.
Ensure robust governance, data collection, and reporting mechanisms are in place.
Work collaboratively across services and boundaries.
Deliver staff training and education programmes to embed best practice in infant feeding.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.
We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.
Our core value is to ‘Be Kind’ and we have an ambition to ‘Be Brilliant’ with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Perform and present regular audits to assess progress towards BFI re‑accreditation
Set up and chair a Trust Infant Feeding Baby Friendly Steering Group, with all relevant stakeholders including parent representatives.
Develop action plans to achieve BFI standards, with the support of the Steering Group.
Schedule BFI assessment visits in consultation with BFI Professional Officer, and organise and prepare for visits.
Demonstrate improvement through benchmarking plans
Provide reports for presentation through the Family Health Divisional Board.
Provide a specialist service for women who require additional support with infant feeding, performing comprehensive assessment of care needs and planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care.
Demonstrate clinical expertise in breastfeeding and credibility through knowledge
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.
Person specification
* Computer literate and ability to produce presentations and reports
* Ability to motivate self and others
* Ability to supervise and demonstrate potential to lead
* Organisational and negotiation skills
* Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
* Awareness of local and national policies and strategies, In Public Health, and Maternity
* Project Management Experience
Qualifications & Learning
* NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife
* Relevant Diploma/Degree or equivalent
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Teaching Qualification or significant experience of delivering education
* Evidence of Masters Level Study
* Leadership Qualification
* UNICEF baby friendly Breast Feeding management course Leadership modules (L6/7) UNICEF trainer the trainers course
* IBLC or equivalent experience
Experience
* Evidence of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice
* Evidence of leading or participating on audit programme
* Specialist knowledge of breastfeeding
* Knowledge and skills in managing change at an operational level.
* Ability and experience to manage other members of staff and delegate work appropriately and safely.
* Experience of Leading QI Projects-Aqua QI Qualification or equivalent
* Evidence of participation in Research
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer rightto work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has a responsibility and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility and is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.
Trust policy requires the cost of DBS applications be recovered via salary. The amount of £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 0(enhanced) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement in post.
The Trust is committed to creating a well‑managed,flexible working environment that supports staff & promotes welfare & development. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity;we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.We operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment & selection process is accessible to all.Flexible Working applications will be considered.
If you are disabled and have special support needs in applying for a job, attending for an interview or in undertaking any tests as part of a selection process, please contact the Trust’s recruitment team on 0151 7064666 and someone from that team will ensure that the recruiting manager is aware of your particular needs.
Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.
LWH has a responsibility & is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children, young people & vulnerable adults & for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility & is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital is committed to having a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. To this end, we particularly welcome applicants from racially minoritised backgrounds, who have a disability, or are members of the Armed Forces, Reservists or Veterans.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
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