Dietitian

• Customer facing support to our business unit teams across all sectors of the business including Healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, Care homes, Schools and Community meals. Including presentations, responding to customer queries , menu development & planning and nutrition training.
• Manage dietary and nutrition information in brochures (e.g. Wiltshire Farm Foods special diets guide).
• Support Business unit teams at key conferences and trade shows.
• Liaise regularly with dietitians and other healthcare professionals to provide direct support and advice on apetito products, systems and service and to build strong customer relationships.
• Engage with customers and consumers to stimulate and identify new opportunities .

• Work closely with colleagues to identify, research and manage new product development opportunities that create competitive advantage and maintain or improve appropriate nutrition standards
• Specify nutrition and diet parameters for new and improved products and ensure these are met.
• Ensure all Health and Nutrition claims are compliant with current legislation.
• Work closely with the Specialist Nutrition team to define special diet specifications and briefs.

• Strive to continually raise the nutrition and dietary expertise in our business. (e.g. through training programmes for new product launches , inductions and across our Wiltshire Farm Foods network).

• Keep apetito up-to-date with nutrition and diet activities and trends (particularly in our key markets) and proactively drive related policies and reviews.
• Maintain nutrition standards across all sectors of the business including healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, care homes and community meals.
• Challenge current practice with a view to gaining competitive advantage through nutrition and diet improvements.
• Contribure externally in nutrition areas of strategic importance to the company (external professional Associations)

• Support marketing activities requiring nutrition and diet input (e.g. attend key multiplier conferences & trade shows, support P.R. activities, produce articles for newsletters and other publications and advise on marketing strategies from a diet, health and nutrition perspective)

• Dietitian, with a BSc/MSc equivalent in Dietetics, or a post-graduate qualification.
• Registered with the UK Health and Care Professions Council
• Member of the British Dietetic Association
• Full driving licence
• Clinical dietetic experience (Band 5), ideally including care of the elderly and experience supporting people living with dysphagia.

• Experience practicing and working as a dietitian at a senior level (NHS band 6 or above).
• Experience of working with/alongside hospital catering departments and/or as a Food Service Dietitian.
• Food manufacturing, product development or catering experience.
• BDA specialist group member e.g. the Food Services Specialist Group or Older Person’s Specialist Group
• Knowledge and working experience of nutritional standards in hospitals, care homes, education settings including early years and local authority settings in the UK
• Knowledge of public health nutrition guidelines and/or School Food Standards
• Food hygiene certificate

• Ability to apply evidence-based nutrition
• Able to communicate with and work well with colleagues and customers at a wide variety of levels – you will need to be able to communicate complex nutrition messages and information relating to our products effectively to people with minimal baseline understanding all the way through to people who are experts in these areas
• Confident and enjoys presenting
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage time effectively
• Ability to apply influencing skills and be a supportive working colleague
• Work under own initiative
• Team player
• Conscientious
• Organised
• Passionate about good food

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday 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

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