Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an enthusiastic candidate who is passionate about offering evidence-based individualised breast/chestfeeding support to women and birthing parents as part of the Lime Green Infant Feeding Team.

The team, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2023, has an opening for a new team member working mainly in the Mansfield area providing individualised and culturally safe breast/chestfeeding support, antenatally and postnatally, for local families in their home, and in the hospital.

The successful candidate will need to have organisational skills and be able to work both on their own and within a team to manage daily workload.

This exciting role also includes providing infant feeding education both face to face and in a class situation, supporting with staff training, audits and administration tasks.

If you are ready to take on a rewarding role within a supportive team, we want to hear from you. Join us in making a positive impact on the lives of mothers 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 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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Details
Date posted: 25 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 214-W&C-8147034
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

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

• Ability to speak and write English fluently
• Evidence of good written and oral communication skills
• Able to communicate with and disseminate information from the multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of supportive working in a team
• Ability to understand and adhere to the equal opportunities policy
• Ability to articulate reasons for wishing to work in this clinical specialty area at this grade
• Demonstrates awareness of audit and quality issues
• Previous experience of working with members of the public
• Understanding of Safeguarding issues
• Awareness of Health and Safety issues
• Knowledge and understanding of data protection confidentially

Qualifications
Essential

• GCSE Maths & English Grades A C, Levels 4-9, Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent
• NVQ Level 3 in Health care or equivalent experience
• Care certificate

Desirable

• Foundation Degree Maternity Pathway

Further Training
Essential

• Demonstrates evidence of commitment to professional development
• Demonstrates an awareness of role of facilitator and evidence of ability to educate others
• Commit to undertake in-house training

Experience/Skills
Essential

• Approachable manner with good interpersonal skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Understanding of the role and own professional boundaries
• Able to identify when to escalate issues/concerns
• Ability to work as part of team and to liaise with colleagues in other disciplines
• Demonstrate attention to detail
• IT / computer skills

Desirable

• One year's formal maternity care experience in a hospital/birth centre/community team
• Experience of using hospital patient record system
• Experience of working in an acute hospital setting
• Experience of providing high quality care
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• Adaptable and flexible approach to work
• Positive attitude to training and development
• Ability to work shift pattern, including weekends

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Employer details
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Specialist Midwife - Infant Feeding, Natalie Boxall, natalie.boxall1@nhs.net, 01623622515

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.