Job Introduction We are looking for a knowledgeable and motivated Nutrition & Dietetics Specialist to support catering services at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. In this key role, you’ll provide expert nutrition and dietetic guidance to ensure our catering provision meets current nutritional standards while supporting patient care, compliance, and continuous improvement. Working closely with catering teams, healthcare professionals, and colleagues across the wider Sodexo business, you’ll play a vital role in menu analysis, and responding to technical and nutritional queries. Acting as a strategic link between Trust Dietitians, Speech and Language Therapists and Sodexo, you’ll help ensure food and hydration standards truly support patient wellbeing. You’ll also deliver diet and nutrition education and training to Sodexo teams, helping to build confidence, capability, and consistency across services. This is a fantastic opportunity to combine clinical expertise with operational impact in a role that supports patient care and business growth. What You'll Do: ▪ To advise Sodexo and Chesterfield Royal Hospital of relevant nutrition and dietetics issues; providing in-house nutrition and dietetics expertise which includes reviewing and drawing on current research, publications and good practice ▪ To actively keep abreast of current research, best practice and trends in nutrition and dietetics, both clinically and as applied to food and beverage services, using this to underpin and maintain a CPD portfolio ▪ To keep up to date on all relevant nutritional and monitoring standards, including those set by the British Dietetic Association and the National Association of Care Catering; to help translate these standards into nutritional targets to aid customer compliance; to help develop meaningful diet coding criteria ▪ To monitor and evaluate contract standards in relation to dietetics ▪ To create menus and provide nutritional analysis and allergen profiles for specific patient groups What You Bring: ▪ A HCPC UK Registered Dietitian (valid Health Professions Council number) and evidences regular CPD activities ▪ Member of BDA Food Services Specialist Group ▪ Food safety knowledge and understanding ▪ Competence in the use of nutritional analysis software and data accuracy in nutritional analysis ▪ Excellent interpersonal and communication skills ▪ Effective time management and high level of organisation