Dietitian

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

Job Introduction

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.

What You'll Do:

▪ 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

What You Bring:

▪ 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

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• 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.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death-in-Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Career progression for the caring profession.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

File Downloads

• UK Rewards and Benefits Guide. 2025.pdf
• CRH Dietitian Job Description v6.pdf