We are looking for someone to join the Tower Hamlets Baby Feeding and Wellbeing Service to cover a fixed term position until 31st January 2026. We are a team of enthusiastic and committed individuals who support local pregnant women (1) and new mothers (2) with feeding their babies in hospital, at home and in the community.

We are looking to fill 2 full-time equivalent posts with 3 people: 1 full-time role and 2 part-time roles.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets offers an exciting opportunity for a Baby Feeding Specialist to deliver the borough-wide infant feeding programme.

The service is commissioned by Tower Hamlets Public Health and based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. We work in partnership with Barts Health Trust at the Royal London Hospital, an accredited Baby Friendly Initiative hospital. We also work in the community, providing antenatal breastfeeding information; feeding support in local Children and Family Centres as well as at home. We work closely with Community Midwives, Health visitors and other health professionals who refer into our service. Our working partner in delivering the service is ‘The Breastfeeding Network’. 

The contract includes weekend and evening work on rotation.

The service offers a mother-centred (3), non-biased and evidence-based approach to supporting infant feeding and aims to support mothers throughout their feeding journey.

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is passionate about infant feeding and supporting families.

The successful candidate(s) should have the skills and training needed to provide infant feeding support for parents in Tower Hamlets. They will need excellent communication skills and be able to work in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team.

(1, 2, 3...... We use the terms ‘women’ and ‘mother’ and ‘mother-centred’ throughout, but we offer support to any and all parents/carers feeding their babies).

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Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.  

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough. 

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