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Overview
The Role and Team

Our Senior Dietitian role is a key position within apetito, responsible for leading on nutrition standards and ensuring we make a real difference to our customers and business through the application of evidence based nutrition and dietary solutions and service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering outstanding nutrition and dietetic support across all key areas of our business including Healthcare, Wiltshire Farm Foods, Care homes and Education, in addition to providing support to New product development, Marketing & PR, Category management and our Specialist nutrition team.

Our Dietitians have a safe-guarding responsibility, to challenge and inform how nutrition impacts our customers, whether a patient in hospital, a resident in a Care Home, a child in Education or someone in their own at home - nutritious food is essential to health and wellbeing and the Senior Dietitian is integral to ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional nutrition solutions.

This role is based at our Head Office in Trowbridge where you will be required to work onsite a minimum 2 days per week. We would welcome applications from candidates looking to work part time hours.

Who we are

About apetito

apetito is the UK's leading supplier of food to the health and social care sectors. Servicing over 400 hospitals, 450 care homes and thousands more through our work with Local Authorities, we produce delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care. Through our food we look to ' make a real difference' to all our customers, up and down the country.

Our Values

Established in 1958, as a family-owned business, our values sit at the very heart of what we do. We are proud to be a business that ' makes a real difference' , committed to producing ' great food to be proud of' . We have developed a range of products designed to ' enhance health and well-being' for all our customers. We are proud supporters of British food and farming and focus on using the best ' ethical and sustainably' sourced produce.

We are driven by a ' passion for service' , dedicated to feeding some of the UK's most vulnerable people, offering healthy and delicious meals to customers across the UK.

Ethical & Sustainable

As a business which operates within food manufacturing, we believe we have an obligation to make a positive contribution on society. With over 300 products in our range, we ensure our produce is ethically and sustainably sourced, working only with suppliers who share our commitment to making a positive impact.

We're a proud member of the Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI), a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs, that promote respect for workers rights globally. All our new suppliers now operate under the ETI's guidelines.

We are also a member of The UK's Plastics Pact , an initiative looking to transform the plastic packaging industry in the UK. As part of the initiative, we have committed, along with other ambitious targets, to eliminate unnecessary single-use plastic completely by 2025.

We have also made a commitment to our employees - we're recognised as an accredited Living Wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation . Joining an elite group of FTSE 100 companies and public sector organisations.

Giving Back

Here at apetito, we take our duty to give back to our local communities and chosen charities very seriously. In 2018, we raised over £30,000 for Alzheimer's Support and Alzheimer's Society alone, thanks to the incredible efforts of our employees and charity committee. We also support our communities through the apetito Staff Foundation, which gives financial support to the chosen charitable causes of our staff and their children. Since 2005, we've raised over £175,000 for these charities.

In addition to your salary you will receive a comprehensive training program, 25 days annual leave holiday entitlement, the ability to buy additional annual leave, retail discounts, free car parking, subsidised staff restaurant, free turkey (or voucher) at Christmas and much more!

Who we are
apetito is the UK's leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK's largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Responsibilities
Providing customer facing support to our business unit teams e.g. delivering presentations , responding to customer queries , supporting tastings , customer meetings, conferences and product launches.
Liaising regularly with external dietitians and other healthcare professionals to provide support and advice on apetito products, systems and service and to build strong customer relationships.
Supporting with the identification research and shaping of new product development opportunities.
Specifying nutrition and diet standards for new and improved products
Ensuring all Health and Nutrition claims and policies are compliant with current legislation
Striving to continually raise the nutrition and dietary standards and expertise in our business.
Providing support / writing of content for publications e.g. product / range releases, thought leadership articles and short articles on key topics.
Hosting, recording and planning podcasts
Filming content for external and internal business use.
Managing dietary and nutrition information in brochures
Providing management and leadership support to the Development dietitian
Providing subject matter expertise to the wider team.
Leading on nutrition related subjects as a key member of our Food & Packaging Policy team , ensuring relevant legislation and policy changes are represented.
Developing and evolving robust nutrition related strategies to create competitive advantage and make a real difference.
Increasing visibility and influence in nutrition areas of strategic importance to the company (e.g. with external professional Associations) About you
Essential:
Relevant dietetic qualification (e.g. BSc in dietetics or post graduate qualification)
Registered dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council
Member of British Dietetic Association
Full driving licence
Significant experience of working as a dietitian (at NHS band 6 or above - or equivalent)
Experience of working in hospitals and in the community Desirable:
Senior Level dietitian experience (e.g. NHS Band 7)
Experience of direct people management
Experience of care of the elderly
Experience of working directly with Hospital Catering Departments
Sound understanding of UK nutrition standards and foodservice in hospitals, care homes and community settings
Demonstrable track record of driving and improving nutrition related policy and working practice
Experience of food product development or food service support
Member of relevant BDA specialist groups Personal Qualities:
Ability to apply evidence based nutrition
Ability to take a strategic view
Confident - able to work well with colleagues and customers at all levels
Demonstrates the drive to challenge and improve
First class communication and presentation skills
Excellent attention to detail
Commercially aware Company Benefits
Competitive salary - accredited Living Wage employer
25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
Option to purchase up to 5 additional days annual leave 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 Our Values
Our Values

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service, and dedicated to feeding some of the UK's most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040. Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.

Learn more about apetito's commitment to a more sustainable future here: (url removed)

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds. Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential