Specialist Nurse Infant Feeding

Specialist Nurse Infant Feeding: (Company Name - Subscribers only)

This is more than a job — it’s a chance to transform the start of a baby’s life. As Neonatal Infant Feeding Lead at Sherwood Forest Hospitals (Company Name - Subscribers only) Foundation Trust, you will be the driving force behind exceptional, evidence-based infant feeding care across neonatal and children’s services.

You will lead, inspire and empower clinical teams to deliver outstanding breastfeeding and infant feeding support, improving initiation and continuation rates and ensuring more babies leave hospital thriving on human milk. Working across the Level 2 Neonatal Unit, Transitional Care and Children’s Services, you will shape pathways, influence practice and champion families at every stage of their journey.

A key leader in achieving and sustaining UNICEF Baby Friendly standards, you will design training, embed best practice, drive audit and quality improvement, and create a culture where excellence flourishes. You’ll act as an expert clinician, educator and role model — mentoring staff, influencing multidisciplinary teams and directly supporting families, including those with complex needs.

Autonomous, impactful and deeply rewarding, this role offers the rare opportunity to combine clinical expertise, leadership, education and service innovation — all while making a lifelong difference to babies and their families.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning (Company Name - Subscribers only) Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National (Company Name - Subscribers only) Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ (Company Name - Subscribers only)-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted

19 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

214-W&C-7761642

Job locations

King’s Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Specialist knowledge and experience in infant feeding, developed through training and practice
• Knowledge of governance structure

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Degree or post graduate diploma
• ENB 998 or similar teaching qualification

Further Training

Desirable

• Completion of UNICEF Baby Friendly courses: Breastfeeding and Relationship Building, Train the Trainer
• Embedding Neonatal standards into Neonatal care
• Hospital Based Standards

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience at a Band 6
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
• Experience of managing and developing colleagues
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Evidence in multiagency working
• Experience of working with external agencies

Desirable

• Involvement in Breastfeeding support/speciality eg. Breastfeeding champion, knowledge / involvement with Baby Friendly assessments or champion role

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to deal with highly sensitive and complex information
• The ability to influence others
• Able to work independently and as a part of a team
• Have a good insight into self and others and vice versa
• Ability to delegate appropriately
• Computer skills
• Leadership skills

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking clinical audit

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Able to work flexibly

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Specialist knowledge and experience in infant feeding, developed through training and practice
• Knowledge of governance structure

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Degree or post graduate diploma
• ENB 998 or similar teaching qualification

Further Training

Desirable

• Completion of UNICEF Baby Friendly courses: Breastfeeding and Relationship Building, Train the Trainer
• Embedding Neonatal standards into Neonatal care
• Hospital Based Standards

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience at a Band 6
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups
• Experience of managing and developing colleagues
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Evidence in multiagency working
• Experience of working with external agencies

Desirable

• Involvement in Breastfeeding support/speciality eg. Breastfeeding champion, knowledge / involvement with Baby Friendly assessments or champion role

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to deal with highly sensitive and complex information
• The ability to influence others
• Able to work independently and as a part of a team
• Have a good insight into self and others and vice versa
• Ability to delegate appropriately
• Computer skills
• Leadership skills

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking clinical audit

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Able to work flexibly