by
Kirstie Flack
| Sep 29, 2017
Lisa Wright, infant feeding lead and the Cambridgeshire Infant Feeding team were recently awarded the Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust’s Shine a Light award.
Lisa and team were nominated by Fleur Seekins, clinical lead, for successfully achieving the baby friendly accreditation stage 2.
Fleur said: “Well done to Lisa Wright who has developed and supported a new team to successfully achieve baby friendly accreditation stage 2. The team is multi-talented consisting of auditors, trainers, infant feeding advisors and project support.
“During the past year the team has been able to evidence a huge increase in staff knowledge and confidence. They have achieved this through bespoke individual staff sessions and most importantly with their culture of kindness approach. Fundamentally it is families that benefit from this, as new parents are supported to give their babies love, care and nourishment they need to get the best start in life.
“The team work hard to ensure that the Cambridgeshire’s breastfeeding statistics remain above national average. This is achieved through raising awareness that breastfeeding matters, effective support to mothers and their families and restricting promotion of formula milks and foods. The healthy child programme is incredibly proud of the team and the whole workforce for their achievement in gaining stage 2 baby friendly accreditation.”
The “Shine a Light” scheme allows members of the public to nominate staff who have delivered a fantastic service and made a real difference to their lives. Trust staff are also encouraged to nominate their colleagues.
On winning the award Lisa said: “I am thrilled that this award recognises the hard work of all of my healthy child program colleagues in achieving Stage 2 of the Baby Friendly Initiative. We couldn't have done this without their support and the dedication of all the Infant Feeding Team. CCS has been incredibly supportive of the journey and I look forward to us gaining Stage 3 next year!”
Every month a member of staff or a team are selected from a list of nominations as the “Shine a Light” award winner. If you would like to nominate a member of staff or a team who has gone the extra mile for you, you can nominate online at www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk
Photo: (Hannah Mora - Health Visitor, Jo Beynon - Infant Feeding Advisor/ Nursery Nurse, Mathew Winn, Chief Executive, Clare Leaton - Training Co- Ordinator, Jo Thompson -Infant Feeding Advisor/ Nursery Nurse, Elizabeth Kurleto Slabber -Infant Feeding Advisor/ Nursery Nurse, Lisa Wright - 0-19 Specialist for Healthy Lifestyles/ Infant Feeding - plus Vicki Dye - Service Improvement and Project Support for 0-19 HCP - not in the photo).