The Service & Team:
The Best Start Community Health and Wellbeing Service supports families from pregnancy through the early years, helping parents and carers to give their children the best possible start in life.
The service provides support and advice to families on their baby’s health, development, feeding, sleep and emotional wellbeing. Working closely with midwives, Family Hubs and community services, the team offers both universal support for all families and additional help where it is needed, in a friendly, non‑judgemental and inclusive way.
As part of this, the Health Visitor Infant Feeding Team provides specialist support to families with feeding their baby. The team offers evidence‑based information during pregnancy and after birth, as well as one‑to‑one support, group sessions and peer support networks across Cornwall.
The Role:
The role of Infant Feeding Peer Support Worker will involve supporting families through their antenatal and postnatal experience with their feeding choices. You will work within the community to educate and support parents and promote confidence in Infant Feeding.
You will link closely with the local Breastfeeding Peer Support Groups and the Health Visiting team to provide expert and evidence-based feeding support to families under the supervision and support of the Infant Feeding Peer Support Coordinator.
There will be regular opportunities for training and updating of your knowledge and skills and excellent support from the wider team.
This presents an excellent opportunity to work in a valued and varied field with a supportive and dynamic team of Infant Feeding professionals.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
This is a part time post working 21 hours per week to cover the role in the East of the County, including supporting the Infant Feeding peer support groups in Saltash, Torpoint and Liskeard amongst others, that are currently running on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Your base would be Liskeard, however this is a hybrid contract working both from home and dedicated office space, as well as involving travelling to home visits / groups etc.
What you’ll need to succeed:
We are looking for a person with experience and training in Breastfeeding Peer Support or BFI training.
You will need to be able to work independently as well as part of a team.
Core skills will include infant feeding knowledge and skills, an empathetic and compassionate nature, problem solving abilities and excellent communication skills.
You will need to be able to drive and access to a car
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services
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Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact
Francesca Bancarino or Esme Maylam (Infant Feeding Peer Support Coordinators) at this email address - [email protected]
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
