Associate Nutritionist

**Associate Nutritionist**

**Location: Weybridge, KT13 0SL**

**Hours of work: 37.5**

**Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract**

As an Associate Nutritionist, you will play a vital role in ensuring the highest nutritional standards for our education contracts.

Your primary responsibility will be to provide expert guidance on nutritional standards and special diet processes, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, standards, and guidelines for healthy and nutritious children's food in line with the ISS Education brand.

As Associate Nutritionist, you will manage special diet referrals and communications, liaising with parents, schools, and healthcare providers to ensure that all dietary needs are met efficiently and effectively.

In this 12-month FTC, your role will also involve supporting the delivery of nutrition and broader health and wellbeing initiatives and programs, promoting a holistic approach to health in educational settings.

You will work closely with our culinary team to develop menus that are both nutritious and appealing to children, fostering a positive relationship with healthy eating.

If you are passionate about promoting healthy eating and well-being in educational environments and are dedicated to making a meaningful impact, we invite you to join our team.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Processing of dietary safeguarding referral forms and management of the pupil files
- Answering and dealing with general queries around new and existing dietary safeguarding menus; i.e., administration, communication with parents and teachers, etc
- Assisting the Nutritionist and Senior Nutritionist with assessing menu compliance in line with the Food Based Standards at the bi-annual menu change
- Assisting with the production of special diet menus at the bi-annual menu change
- Assisting with and supporting added value initiatives within the business e.g FEED days and other promotional or educational events (must be comfortable communicating with young children, teenagers, parents & teachers)
- Support the Nutritionist with the development and delivery of internal training programmes on healthy eating and allergen management

**Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications**
- Degree in Nutrition (or suitable equivalent)
- Registered as Associate Nutritionist with AfN
- Experience using saffron or other nutritional analysis programme
- Knowledge of special dietary requirements and allergen management & legislation

**The Company**

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 131290