Job Description
We are looking for someone who will work closely with our on-site Catering Managers to ensure menus meet clinical and dietary requirements.
The successful candidate will support staff training, maintain high compliance standards, and contribute to continuous improvements across the patient food service. Training in food services can be provided.
Key Responsibilities
1. Collaborate with catering and dietetic teams across sites to deliver safe, nutritious, and enjoyable meals for all patients.
2. Develop and implement tailored menus, including support for special diets and allergen management.
3. Implement ISS patient food service and dietetic policies and procedures.
4. Support the creation and delivery of training content for catering and ward assistant staff, working with Trust dietitians and the ISS dietetic team.
5. Contribute to dietetic and nutrition team projects, including health promotion initiatives and product-related data gathering.
6. Provide updates at ISS dietetic and nutrition team meetings, reporting on key actions, issues, and successes.
7. Support patient engagement activities such as Nutrition & Hydration Week and themed food events.
8. Maintain accurate documentation, support audits, and participate in continuous service improvement activities.
9. Maintain ongoing professional development and a CPD portfolio as required for HCPC audits.
10. Undertake any other duties relevant to ISS Dietetics and Nutrition.
Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications
11. Degree in Dietetics, or relevant degree with a Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics.
12. HCPC Registered Dietitian.
13. Food Safety qualification at a minimum of Level 3 (training can be provided).
14. Membership of the British Dietetic Association.
15. Experience in a food service or catering environment.
16. Oncology-focused clinical experience.
17. Awareness of challenges specific to the hospital environment.
18. Understanding of cultural diversity in cooking and eating practices among service users.
Other Skills
19. Menu planning, nutritional analysis, and dietary coding.
20. Teaching and presentation skills.
21. Project management capabilities.
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.
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.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.