Lactation Consultant

Our offer for you...

• salary is dependent on your work experience in FWG 50 of the Ziekenhuizen collective labor agreement (CAO). That is max. € 4,914 gross per month based on 36 hours.
• we offer you an immediate permanent contract for 8 hours per week with a 2-month probationary period.
  The vacancy scope amounts to a total of 8 hours per week, divided over two mornings of 4 hours.
• a fixed year-end bonus and holiday allowance, both 8.33%
• do you travel by public transport? Then your commuting costs will be fully reimbursed
• a flexible benefits system in which you can, for example, purchase extra leave or buy a bicycle and/or receive a contribution for a sports subscription
• unlimited access to our vitality platform 'Jouw Moment' with an extensive range for our colleagues to get started with vitality and access to the online training range from Goodhabitz

As a lactation consultant, you fulfill a key role within the obstetric, neonatal, and pediatric care chain and contribute to high-quality, continuously coordinated care, from pregnancy through clinical admission and the transition to the home situation.

With your expertise, you contribute to optimal care for mother and child and work closely with colleagues within maternity care.

Are you a dedicated and expert lactation consultant who loves working in a dynamic hospital environment? Then we would love to meet you!

Come join us and start as a Lactation Consultant

lactation consultant:
As a lactation consultant, you are responsible for providing specialist guidance and advice to pregnant women, postpartum women, and their partners.

Your duties include:

• guiding and coaching parents regarding feeding and drinking development
• advising and coaching nurses, maternity care providers, midwives, and physicians
• providing support with tube feeding, formula, and expressing, skin-to-skin contact, and guiding premature babies with latching and drinking problems
• contributing to the development, implementation, and safeguarding of policies regarding feeding and drinking development
• identifying areas for improvement in care delivery and contributing to quality improvement
• providing training and professional development for colleagues
• multidisciplinary collaboration within the obstetrics, pediatrics, and neonatology departments

obstetrics, women and children's center:
is the women and children's center in Den Helder where we work according to the Family Integrated Care principle. In our center, we provide (safe and professional) family-centered and specialized care to women and children. This includes reproductive medicine, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and neonatology. All specialists work together to organize care for women and children as effectively as possible.

lactation consultant:
You are an enthusiastic professional who possesses excellent communication skills and easily connects with patients and colleagues.

In addition, you possess:

About Noordwest...:
Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep is a top-clinical hospital. This means that we are a teaching hospital for almost all medical specialties. With 770 beds, over 4,500 employees, 550 volunteers, and about 340 medical specialists, Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep is one of the largest hospital organizations in the Netherlands and a large employer in Noord-Holland. We believe that everyone should be able to count on each other for care. Caring for each other in Noord-Holland Noord. That is also the mission of Noordwest. Now and tomorrow. Our core values are an eye for each other, acting with decisiveness, and being top-clinical with pride. Additionally, we have a pleasant working atmosphere: with us, lines are short, we communicate openly with each other, we are collegial, and we find humor important!