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 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.
Francesca Bancarino or Esme Maylam (Infant Feeding Peer Support Coordinators) at this email address - Breastfeeding@cornwall.gov.uk
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We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
A unique Council that has secured the UK's first devolution deal for a rural County! We deliver services to more than half a million local people and to over five million visitors a year.
*Cornwall - The Place: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/work-and-volunteer-for-us/cornwall-the-place/
With its beautiful beaches, stunning countryside and superb community spirit, Cornwall is a great place to live.
*Cornwall - Our Offer: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/work-and-volunteer-for-us/our-offer/
With a competitive employee reward package that attracts, retains and motivates our employees; open plan working environments in most offices, good business systems and a can do culture where talented people thrive, Cornwall Council is a great place to work.
*Cornwall - Our Job of the Week: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/joboftheweek
*Cornwall - What we do and how we work: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/work-and-volunteer-for-us/what-we-do-and-how-we-work/
Services: Care for the elderly, children’s safeguarding, libraries, road maintenance, fire and rescue service, recycling, parks, street cleaning, countryside management, social housing, town planning, tourism support and trading standards.
We deliver these services through our employees who work directly for the Council and through our many other Council owned companies and organisations; CORMAC, Cornwall Housing, Tempus Leisure, Newquay Airport and Cornwall Development Company.
We also have close links with Cornwall’s health organisations, colleges and universities and work closely with the police, town and parish councils and the voluntary sector.
*Cornwall - Council and Democracy: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/
We have 123 elected councillors and as Cornwall is such a large rural area, our councillors and the towns and parishes they represent are grouped into 19 community networks, which are the focus of our local community work.
