Senior Dietitian

Overview

Our Senior Dietitian role is a key position within apetito, responsible for leading on nutrition standards and ensuring we make a real difference to our customers and business through the application of evidence based nutrition and dietary solutions and service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering outstanding nutrition and dietetic support across all key areas of our business including Healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, Care homes and Education, in addition to providing support to New product development, Marketing & PR, Category management and our Specialist nutrition team.

Our Dietitians have a safe-guarding responsibility, to challenge and inform how nutrition impacts our customers, whether a patient in hospital, a resident in a Care Home, a child in Education or someone in their own at home - nutritious food is essential to health and wellbeing and the Senior Dietitian is integral to ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional nutrition solutions.

This role is based at our Head Office in Trowbridge where you will be required to work onsite a minimum 2 days per week. We would welcome applications from candidates looking to work part time hours.

Who we are

apetito is the UK's leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK's largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Providing customer facing support to our business unit teams e.g. delivering presentations , responding to customer queries , supporting tastings , customer meetings, conferences and product launches.
• Liaising regularly with external dietitians and other healthcare professionals to provide support and advice on apetito products, systems and service and to build strong customer relationships.
• Supporting with the identification research and shaping of new product development opportunities.
• Specifying nutrition and diet standards for new and improved products
• Ensuring all Health and Nutrition claims and policies are compliant with current legislation
• Striving to continually raise the nutrition and dietary standards and expertise in our business.
• Providing support / writing of content for publications e.g. product / range releases, thought leadership articles and short articles on key topics.
• Hosting, recording and planning podcasts
• Filming content for external and internal business use.
• Managing dietary and nutrition information in brochures
• Providing management and leadership support to the Development dietitian
• Providing subject matter expertise to the wider team.
• Leading on nutrition related subjects as a key member of our Food & Packaging Policy team , ensuring relevant legislation and policy changes are represented.
• Developing and evolving robust nutrition related strategies to create competitive advantage and make a real difference.
• Increasing visibility and influence in nutrition areas of strategic importance to the company (e.g. with external professional Associations)

About you

Essential:

• Relevant dietetic qualification (e.g. BSc in dietetics or post graduate qualification)
• Registered dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council
• Member of British Dietetic Association
• Full driving licence
• Significant experience of working as a dietitian (at NHS band 6 or above - or equivalent)
• Experience of working in hospitals and in the community

Desirable:

• Senior Level dietitian experience (e.g. NHS Band 7)
• Experience of direct people management
• Experience of care of the elderly
• Experience of working directly with Hospital Catering Departments
• Sound understanding of UK nutrition standards and foodservice in hospitals, care homes and community settings
• Demonstrable track record of driving and improving nutrition related policy and working practice
• Experience of food product development or food service support
• Member of relevant BDA specialist groups

Personal Qualities:

• Ability to apply evidence based nutrition
• Ability to take a strategic view
• Confident - able to work well with colleagues and customers at all levels
• Demonstrates the drive to challenge and improve
• First class communication and presentation skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Commercially aware

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary - accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days annual leave per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

Our Values

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service, and dedicated to feeding some of the UK's most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito's commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.

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