Dietitian

Job Details

• Job Title:
  
  Dietitian
• Location:
  
  Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Chesterfield Rd, Calow, Chesterfield S44 5BL
• Competitive + Sodexo Benefits
• 40 Hours per week / Monday - Friday

We are looking for a knowledgeable and motivated Nutrition & Dietetics Specialist to support catering services at Chesterfield Royal Hospital
. In this key role, you’ll provide expert nutrition and dietetic guidance to ensure our catering provision meets current nutritional standards while supporting patient care, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Working closely with catering teams, healthcare professionals, and colleagues across the wider Sodexo business, you’ll play a vital role in menu planning, special diet provision, menu analysis, and responding to technical and nutritional queries. Acting as a strategic link between Trust Dietitians, Speech and Language Therapists, Doctors, Nursing staff, and Sodexo, you’ll help ensure food and hydration standards truly support patient wellbeing.

You’ll also deliver diet and nutrition education and training to Sodexo teams, helping to build confidence, capability, and consistency across services. This is a fantastic opportunity to combine clinical expertise with operational impact in a role that supports patient care and business growth.

• To advise Sodexo and Chesterfield Royal Hospital of relevant nutrition and dietetics issues; providing in-house nutrition and dietetics expertise which includes reviewing and drawing on current research, publications and good practice
• To actively keep abreast of current research, best practice and trends in nutrition and dietetics, both clinically and as applied to food and beverage services, using this to underpin and maintain a CPD portfolio
• To keep up to date on all relevant nutritional and monitoring standards, including those set by the Care Quality Commission (and equivalent monitoring bodies throughout the UK), British Dietetic Association and the National Association of Care Catering; to help translate these standards into nutritional targets to aid customer compliance; to help develop meaningful diet coding criteria
• To monitor and evaluate contract standards in relation to dietetics
• To collaborate with the Trust on Nutritional Care and Hydration policies
• To support the Trust in initiatives relating to dementia care and other nutrition focused patient care
• To contribute new ideas for product development and identify gaps in current ranges
• To liaise with Apetito dietitian when developing service offers using Apetito products
• To create menus and provide nutritional analysis and allergen profiles for specific patient groups

• A HCPC UK Registered Dietitian (valid Health Professions Council number) and evidences regular CPD activities
• Member of BDA Food Services Specialist Group
• Minimum 3 years sound and relevant dietetics experience, some of which has been within the NHS
• Previous exposure to working as a dietitian within the food service or food manufacturing industry
• Experience of writing menus based on cook-chill and cook-freeze catering systems
• Food safety knowledge and understanding
• Trained in public relations and / or media skills
• High level of confidence and knowledge in nutrition and dietetics and keeps abreast of current trends and research in food services and relevant aspects of clinical dietetics
• Competence in the use of nutritional analysis software and data accuracy in nutritional analysis
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Effective time management and high level of organisation

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
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