Catering Dietitian

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a catering dietitian to join the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust and be part of team driving improvements in nutrition and hydration for patients, staff and visitors. Working as part of the Facilities team, this part time, flexible role offers the opportunity to travel to multiple sites while working agilely from home. 

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Catering and Dietetic Teams as the Trust Lead Catering Dietitian. Ensuring all hospital menus are nutritionally adequate and reflect best practice guidelines including hospital food standards, allergen information and International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) recommendations.

The post holder will act as a source of expertise in the analysis, development and review of hospital and care setting menus and work with wider multidisciplinary teams to promote food first principles across the Trust.

The post holder will have clinical understanding of various specialist patient groups to ensure menu options are appropriate to meet dietary requirements, identifying, involving, and liaising with the relevant stakeholders regarding gaps in catering provision and communicating available menu and support options.

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Working with the Trust Catering Team to enhance and optimise patient menu design to improve the care of inpatients. Working alongside the dietetic and catering teams to lead with: 

·       The deliverance of catering initiatives that align with the trust Nutrition and Hydration Steering Group.

·       Ensuring all hospital menus are nutritionally adequate and reflect best practice guidelines including hospital food standards, allergen information and IDDSI recommendations.

·       Menu analysis and coding of menus ensuring that menus align with the requirements of the local population for religious, cultural, and therapeutic needs.

·       Menu and electronic meal ordering co-design to optimise the patients’ access to nutritional information. 

·       Food tasting and trials supporting menu development and menu-based initiatives.

·       Development and evaluation of nutritious drinks, snacks and out of hours food strategies

·       The development of catering initiatives linked to staff and patient experience in line with the BDA Work Ready Programme, PLACE and the BDA Nutrition and Hydration Digest.

·       Interprets and incorporates new national policy, guidelines, and best practice standards into local work.

·       Works with the wards, catering, speech and language therapy and dietetics to evaluate and audit current service and to identify future service changes/ improvements. 

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. 

These include:

Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

·       Flexible working opportunities

·       excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

·       salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

·       discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

·       wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

·       staff networks and support groups 

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.