Catering Dietician
Contract: Healthcare
Location: London, SE13 6LH
Hours of work: 40
Contract Type: Permanent
The Catering Dietitian plays a vital role in ensuring patient catering services meet nutritional, therapeutic, and quality standards across multiple sites.
Working closely with onsite catering teams, ISS management, and Trust dietitians, the role supports the delivery of safe, nutritious, and appealing meals that enhance patient care and satisfaction.
Job Description
This position requires balancing clinical expertise with operational oversight to ensure menus are both compliant and practical for foodservice delivery.
The Catering Dietitian will drive continuous improvements, promote best practices, and support staff training to meet evolving patient needs and organisational goals. By fostering strong partnerships with all stakeholders, the role helps create a positive food environment that contributes to patient wellbeing and recovery.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead menu planning and review for both therapeutic and standard menus, ensuring compliance with nutritional guidelines and organisational policies.
* Liaise effectively with onsite catering teams, Trust dietitians, and ISS management to communicate updates, resolve issues, and support service improvements.
* Coordinate and drive Catering Operations meetings, engaging key stakeholders and ensuring actions are followed through.
* Implement ISS patient catering and dietetics policies, ensuring adherence to standards such as the Great Food and Beverage Services Guide.
* Conduct nutritional analysis and dietary coding using software such as Saffron to support menu development and compliance.
* Support training and education initiatives for catering staff to promote best practice in patient nutrition and food safety.
* Manage projects related to patient catering enhancements, balancing priorities to meet deadlines.
Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications
* Qualified and HCPC-registered Dietitian with experience in clinical and foodservice settings.
* Strong knowledge of nutritional analysis, patient catering standards, and cleaning processes.
* Excellent communicator, confident engaging with catering teams, clinical staff, and other stakeholders.
* Firm but fair leadership style with strong people management skills.
* Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
* Commercially aware and able to work independently or as part of a team.
* Committed to health and safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.
* Proactive and ready to hit the ground running to enhance patient catering services.
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. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace
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.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing resourcing.team@uk.issworld.com