Specialist Baby Feeding Supporter

Specialist Baby Feeding Supporter

£38,256, - £39,276 Pro Rata (Fixed Term to September 2027, 21.6 hours per week).

Thepost holder will be required to;

• Support parents with infant feeding questions and concerns in person at Baby Feeding Cafes and virtually via Newham Baby Feeding Helpline.
• Maintain excellent listening and communication skills using a strengths-based approach, supporting parent’s own learning and self-efficacy: providing support and evidence-based information to enable informed decision making.
• Liaise with the Senior Specialist Baby Feeding Supporter, Infant Feeding Coordinator and Health Visitors where there are concerns outside of remit of role.
• Communicating effectively and professionally with all members of the multidisciplinary team and with outside agencies involved in provision or planning of care.
• Demonstrate awareness of the needs of clients/families from diverse ethnic/family groups.
• Record activity and data at end of each shift to support information sharing with health visiting, Public Health and Family Hubs colleagues.
• Contribute to fulfilling the minimum requirements of the Family Hubs Programme. At its core, this includes providing support and guidance to parents in Newham to help improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity, duration and support families with their wider infant feeding goals.
• Promote access and engagement of the Newham Family Hub offer
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of service guidelines and policies appropriate to the role and demonstrate evidence-based practiced based on these and UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative standards.

Newham is one of the UK’s most diverse and vibrant boroughs, home to around 373,000 residents and over 96,000 children and young people. As one of London’s youngest and fastest-growing communities, Newham continues to benefit from significant regeneration linked to the Olympic legacy. While the borough faces challenges including deprivation, housing pressures and health inequalities, it is also characterised by strong, resilient communities and a commitment to ensuring that every child has the best start in life and the opportunity to achieve their full potential

This post is employed by the London Borough of Newham, who was the first London borough to offer a fully integrated 0-19 health and social care service as we have assumed direct responsibility for providing School Nursing services, Health Visiting and Family Nurse Partnership in 2017. Therefore, our CYPS directorate will be delivering the 0-19 Healthy Child programme through the Children’s Health Service.

The Children’s Health0-19 Service had their recent CQC inspection in 2021 and rated Good in all areas.

Newham Best Start Family Hubs with Children’s Centres and Children’s Health 0-19 Service jointly achieved Stage 3 (Full) UNICEF Baby Friendly Accreditation in May 2026. Together we are working to maintain Full Baby Friendly accreditation, aiming to apply for Gold Accreditation in 2029.

Newham is one of the 75 local authorities chosen to trial a new-style family support centre – known as a Family Hub, an approach that ensures services and professionals work better together to provide families easier access to services in their local community. It will include, for example, health services (antenatal, maternity, health visitor, school nurses), early years and childcare, education, parenting support, safety and relationship support.

The candidate will/must have:

• IBCL / Breastfeeding Counsellor, or Peer Supporter working towards BFC or IBCLC qualification.
• In depth knowledge of infant feeding including lactation, the value of breastfeeding, and common is
• sues including awareness of how to support mothers to establish and maintain breastfeeding.
• Excellent…