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Nutritionist

First Steps Nutrition Trust
Hybrid (London office)

Posted: 17 Dec 2025

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

Compensation: £40,000-£45,000 (1.0 FTE)

Paid Full-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

Work with us

First Steps Nutrition Trust is a small, independent, UK public health nutrition charity, founded in 2011. We’ve achieved a lot with a little and become an established and respected source of expertise on early years nutrition across policy and practice.

Our goal is for all children in the UK to eat well from the start of life (preconception to age five), helping reduce high levels of overweight, obesity and dental decay. Our two main work streams are:

• Policy: Influencing policies to enable the safe, appropriate and optimal feeding of infants and young children in the UK, and to protect them from commercial interest
• Practice: Provision of expert, independent information and resources for health workers, other early years professionals and parents, to supporting eating well

We are independent and do not work with organisations or individuals that work with, or take funding from, the breastmilk substitute industry.

We are recruiting a nutritionist to increase our organisational capacity to deliver on our policy and practice work. Full time (35 hours a week), 1-year fixed term with probable extension, hybrid (London office), salary £40-45K PA.

Roles and responsibilities

• Maintain and support the development and dissemination of our resources on infant milks and our ‘eating well’ resources which provide practical guidance on healthy diets from pregnancy through to the age of 5 years.
• Respond to queries from professionals and parents on nutrition and feeding in the early years and create and deliver training for professionals on the same.
• Support our policy influencing work with a focus on strengthening the regulations on the marketing and composition of commercial baby and toddler foods, and the marketing of commercial milk formulas, and their enforcement.
• Represent First Steps Nutrition Trust externally ensuring that early years nutrition and our policy asks are on others’ agendas and informing their advocacy.
• Communications to publicise and disseminate our work and the relevant work of others.

Person specification

• We are seeking a (registered) nutritionist (public health) or a (registered) dietitian with evidence of public health training. You must have a postgraduate qualification in public health nutrition or similar and a relevant undergraduate degree, and a minimum of 3 years’ professional work experience.
• You need excellent writing skills, excellent self-management skills and demonstrable research skills.
• You need to be creative and have a good attention to detail.
• You need to be willing to learn new skills, have strong interpersonal skills, and be committed to work ethically in line with First Steps Nutrition Trust principles.
• It would be good if you had working knowledge of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and World Health Assembly Resolutions, experience working on maternal, infant and young child nutrition and feeding and experience developing and delivering training.

To find out more about the role and to apply, please see our website. Applications close at midnight on Sunday 11 January 2026. 

Application information

Please send a 1 page cover letter outlining your fit for the role against the person specification, and your CV, to First Steps Nutrition Trust Director Dr Vicky Sibson at vicky@firststepsnutrition.org. The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 11th January.

First round interview will take place online, week commencing 19th January and will be accompanied by a short, written test.

Second round interviews will be in person at our London office on Wednesday 28th January or Wednesday 4th February. Please send any inquiries about the role to Vicky, at the email address above.

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