Contract Dietitian (Part Time)

Job Introduction

Sodexo Healthcare are currently looking to recruit an experienced Dietician to join our team part time at the Royal Chesterfield Hospital.

In this role you’ll provide nutrition and dietetic expertise to the catering departments and provide assistance to customers, including colleagues within the wider Sodexo business, regarding compliance with nutritional standards, menu planning, special diet provision and technical queries.

You’ll be the strategic link between the Trust Dietitian’s, Speech and Language Therapists, Doctors and Nursing staff alongside Sodexo - where matters on food and hydration are concerned.

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates teams (estates management, asset management, land maintenance and energy management).

Role Responsibility

• 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
• 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
• Monitor and evaluate contract standards in relation to dietetics
• Support the Trust in initiatives relating to dementia care and other nutrition focused patient
• Contribute new ideas for product development and identify gaps in current ranges
• Create menus and provide nutritional analysis and allergen profiles for specific patient groups
• Help produce customer literature and collateral – e.g. brochures, picture menu’s
• Seek feedback from customers through surveys and consultation projects 

**Please see full job description attached below

The Ideal Candidate

• HCPC UK Registered Dietitian (valid Health Professions Council number) and evidences regular CPD activities
• Member of BDA Food Services Specialist Group
• 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
• 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
• 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 communication skills – ability to communicate effectively with patients, visitors, colleagues, clients

**Certificates will need to be produced at interview stage 

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

Grade I2 – access to a variety of Sodexo benefits and discounts, flexible benefit fund, bonus and pension scheme

16 hours per week, can be worked across 2, 3, 4 or 5 days

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to further engage ex-forces personnel and reservists.  Those applying for roles with us who meet the essential criteria advertised under the ‘ideal candidate’ on the vacancy advertised are guaranteed to progress within the selection process.