Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk.

Please note that for positions that require you to drive as part of your job role we will be asking for evidence of business insurance. 

 

Job overview

 

This is a strategic and clinical role which requires a dynamic leader with a broad clinical knowledge of infant feeding, the Baby Friendly Initiative and of the National Obesity Strategy.  The post holder will be the clinical lead for the National Child Measurement Programme in Bromley and Bexley, and be the lead in Greenwich on promoting the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy within the Greenwich 0 to 4 service.  The post holder will line manage the Infant Feeding Specialists in each borough whose role it is to deliver training, specialist clinics and undertake audits under the direction

Bexley Health Visiting achieved level 3 BFI accreditation in May 2021 and Bromley Health Visiting is due to be reassessed at level 3 in April 2022. The vision is to achieve sustainability and Gold BFI accreditation. Greenwich Health Visiting will also be reassessed at level in the Autumn and will be integrating with the Children’s Centres who are also being assessed. 

 

Main duties of the job

 

• To lead the BFI accreditation process within Health Visiting services to achieve Level 3 in Bromley and Greenwich and prepare for sustainability and Gold accreditation in Bexley
• Understand current existing barriers and develop strategies to overcome these.
• Ensure that new practices implemented are evidenced-based and that appropriate evaluation takes place.
• To develop effective working relationships and development of BFI standards with Children’s Centre and Early Years’ colleagues.
• Lead on developing an integrated Infant Feeding approach for Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich working with Service Leads in Health Visiting, Maternity, Primary Care services, and the CCGs.
• To line manage the infant Feeding Specialists and Primary School Screeners

 

Working for our organisation

 

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. 

 

Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point.

 

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

 

We are passionate about caring for our service users, and their family and friends, as well as the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we encourage all colleagues to take up the offer of the Coronavirus vaccination. The government are currently consulting on whether to continue with planned legislation that would make vaccination a legal requirement for certain roles in the health and care sector. It may become a legal requirement for some roles at Bromley Healthcare.

 

As such, all applicants should be mindful of this when applying to join us and may be required to evidence their vaccination status prior to joining or once they have joined. This includes non-clinical roles that may have contact with patients and service users by virtue of entering our premises.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

• To lead the implementation and sustainability of the BFI standards across Bromley, Greenwich and Bexley

 

• To develop clinical pathways internally and with external partners to ensure the best infant feeding support is provided to families ante and postnatally, and beyond.

 

• To provide assurance to the Head of Children’s Public Health Nursing and Commissioners of the quality, the effectiveness of the care provided

 

• To lead on the faltering growth pathway across the 3 boroughs, ensuring that this is audited annually.

 

• To update the infant feeding policy and faltering growth guidance annually, in collaboration with the Service Leads

 

• To provide clinical supervision and training to the Infant Feeding Specialists

 

• To lead on the preparation of the Greenwich 0 to4 workforce for Level 3 BFI reassessment

 

• Ensure that new practices implemented are evidenced-based and that appropriate evaluation takes place

 

• To take the lead for maintaining and monitoring progress on the requirements   of BFI assessment

 

• Take the lead on identifying problem areas or areas for improvement with the Service Leads affected and facilitate the planning and documentation of actions required to achieve the required standard.   

 

• To project manage the BFI assessment, producing appropriate reports and information as requested within timescales

 

• To demonstrate a thorough understanding of local and national objectives and contribute to the strategic planning of Health Visiting services.