Specialist Dietitian for Catering

at  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Our high performing catering department is on a journey to reshape and enhance how we deliver modern, nutritious food that improves patient care and staff wellbeing. We’re looking for an experienced, inspirational Specialist Dietitian to help us achieve this!
We’re an in-house cook chill service made up of innovative catering professionals who work together to overcome complex challenges and deliver the best for our patients and staff. Your role will provide the professional link between Dietetics and Catering to provide advice, training and interpret organisational and national policies to develop nutritionally compliant menus which cater for all clinical complexities within the Trust.
Based at Northern General Hospital with flexibility for some home working, you will work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver a range of nutrition and hydration services including developing menus and recipes, covering therapeutic and specialist diets, manage and monitor stock for snack lists, create patient meal plans, lead on dietetic specific projects and progress national policy and guidance.
You’ll need to demonstrate leadership skills and strategic thinking, strong problem- solving skills and the ability to manage information and data effectively to influence decision making. Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and budgetary control is key as is the ability to develop Trust wide education programmes and supervise training.
We’re very keen to invest and develop our staff and you will have access to a range of training and development for a fulfilling career within Facilities and the Trust.
If you’re new to the NHS, we have fantastic benefits to offer, from flexible working arrangements, a good pension and annual leave, hundreds of local and national discounts, subsidised travel, car and gym schemes and a whole lot more!
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
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