Specialist Nurse Infant Feeding

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 05 March 2026

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 NHS 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.

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

We are an award-winning NHS 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 NHS 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’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

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

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

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

• Completion of UNICEF Baby Friendly courses:
  Breastfeeding and Relationship Building, Train the Trainer
• Hospital Based Standards

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

• 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
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit

• Able to work flexibly

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata