Lactation Consultant NMC healthcare LLC

• Develop and maintain a learning culture amongst nurses, particularly in the specialist field in which they work.

• Be an expert registered nurses with advanced education, training or certification in their specialized area of practice. Specialty practice may be defined by population, clinical setting a disease/medical subspecialty and type of care or type of problem.

• Be a role model and always seek to improve the safety and quality of care delivered to patients in the specialist field.

• Be a member of the interprofessional team as a subject matter expert in his/ her field of specialization.

• Support and lead audit and data collection in their area of specialisation for KPIs and benchmarking.

• Support the nurse educator with training programs, training needs analysis within the specialised field.

• Support patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.

• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.

• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.

• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.

• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.

• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.

• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.

• Support the process of safe patient`s admission, transfer and discharge.

• Type additional unit specific & department specific responsibilities here

Lactation Consultant will:

• Protect, promote and support breastfeeding within facility providing maternity and newborn services, to women, families and all staff both clinical and non-clinical.

• Role model best practice, lead and implement facility change reflective of the WHO Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (these are listed below), both critical management procedures and key clinical practices-

o Comply fully with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes & World Health Assembly Resolutions.

o Lead the development and implementation of infant feeding policies, establish ongoing monitoring, KPI development and data-management.

o Ensure sufficient staff knowledge, conduct competency assessment and skills training to support breastfeeding.

o Develop tools to support family education on the importance and management of breastfeeding.

o Facilitate immediate & uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact and support mothers to initiative breastfeeding as soon as possible after birth.

o Support mothers to initiate and maintain breastfeeding and manage common difficulties.

o Support mothers and their infants to remain together and role model rooming-in practices.

o Support mothers to recognise and respond to their infant’s cues for feeding.

o Counsel mothers and the MDT on the use and risks of feeding bottles, teats, and pacifiers.

o Support the discharge process, role modelling access to ongoing support and care following discharge.

• Provide direct clinical care for women who require support with all aspects of breastfeeding, within all clinical areas of the facility.

• Develop, implement, and lead family education classes, whilst offering educational support to staff.

• Develop and implement training programs for families and staff in relation to BFHI, in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team and the Medical Professional Training Centre (MPTC).

• Engage with all stakeholders across the NMC network and the community to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

• Support and fully engage the BFHI accreditation process and role model the accreditation standards.

• Following a pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or neonatal death, support the women through counselling support and appropriate management cessation of lactogenesis.

• Maintain professional requirements to remain actively certified as a IBCLC Lactation Consultant.

• Remain updated and informed with the national requirements from MOHAP in relation to lactation services.