About the job

Registered Nutritionist or Dietitian

Location: Hybrid

Contract: Full Time

About the Role

We are looking for a highly organised and detail-focused Registered Nutritionist or Dietitian to join our Nutrition and Dietetics team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the implementation of new systems and play a key role in managing nutrition, allergen and ingredient data across our product portfolio.

Working closely with the Head of Nutrition & Dietetics and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, you will help ensure that product information is accurate, compliant and up to date. You will also support menu analysis activities, contribute to nutrition projects and assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect, validate and maintain nutrition, allergen and ingredient data from suppliers and manufacturers.
• Support the implementation of the Ivalua system, including PriCat data loading processes.
• Conduct quality checks and sense-checking of product specifications and nutritional information.
• Work collaboratively with Category Managers, Supply Chain, Master Data teams, System Administrators and suppliers.
• Support menu and nutritional analysis across a range of service lines.
• Provide professional support and guidance on nutrition and allergen-related queries.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and system implementation activities.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies in nutrition and allergen data.
• Contribute to wider Nutrition and Dietetics projects and initiatives.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Qualified Dietitian with UK registration or Registered Nutritionist with relevant food industry experience.
• Experience working with product specifications, nutritional data, regulatory compliance or product development.
• Knowledge of food labelling, allergens, nutrition information and product specifications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
• High level of accuracy and strong numerical skills.
• Experience using databases, Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information professionally.

Desirable

Experience using dietary or nutrition analysis software.

• Experience supporting system implementations or data migration projects.
• Knowledge of UK and Ireland nutrition and allergen legislation.

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description

Employee discount

On-site gym

On-site parking

Full job description

About The Role

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time Dietitian to join our Primary Care team at HMP Eastwood Park, located in Gloucestershire

HMP Eastwood Park is a women's prison focused on rehabilitation, wellbeing, and helping individuals build positive futures. Health care is situated in the prison and provides a 24 hour healthcare and has a capacity of around 400 females.

As part of this Dietitian role, you will have a varied and rewarding workload, including managing a clinical caseload, delivering training and upskilling staff, facilitating group sessions for patients.

This is an excellent opportunity to shape the role and make it your own. You'll have the autonomy to develop services, introduce new ideas

Site offers:

• Onsite parking
• Onsite Café
• Access to gym

Hours:

• Monday - Friday
• 18.75 hours per week
• We are flexible in the working days / hours

Salary

You’ll receive an annual salary between £21,805 - £24,578 per annum, depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

What you'll be doing

As a Dietitian your responsibilities will vary. You will

• Advise on therapeutic diets and specialist nutritional requirements, ensuring these are Deliver a comprehensive dietetic service to patients within the prison, managing a varied and complex caseload.
• Undertake specialist nutritional assessments and develop evidence-based treatment plans tailored to individual patient needs.
• Provide expert dietary advice and interventions for patients with a range of clinical conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, malnutrition, obesity, and food allergies or intolerances.
• Monitor, review, and evaluate patient progress, adjusting care plans as required.
• Work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, prison staff, catering services, and external agencies to ensure effective nutritional care and support.
• Provide nutritional education and health promotion activities to individuals and groups, supporting behaviour change and self-management.

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

What we’ll look for in you

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as they would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

• Dietician Degree Qualification or equivalent - HCPC
• Experience of working as a dietician in a large multi- disciplinary team,
• Health Professions Council– Licence to Practice.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Knowledge of healthcare policies and best practice

Although not essential ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you

#LI-AS1