Diet and Nutrition Advisor

Diet and Nutrition Advisor

We are constantly bombarded by the media with hints and tips for sensible eating habits and the need for eating healthy foods, and it can often seem contradictory. So how do we make sense of it all?

About Our Diet and Nutrition Advisor Course

This paper-based or online Diet and Nutrition course is aimed at enabling students to give clear, concise and no-nonsense diet and nutrition advice, and to educate others on health and wellbeing through diet and nutrition.

The nutrition course will touch crucial areas including nutrients and the digestive system, weight control and management, diets for various populations, and supplements.

Designed to engage the student in research and to think clearly and analytically, this nutrition course will prepare students with the skills essential to advising their clients.

What Can I Do After Taking This Nutrition Course?

Work as a nutritionist or diet and nutrition advisor. Our online nutritionist courses will effectively prepare you to work as a nutritionist or diet and nutrition advisor, earning an average of £30,000*/year. After successfully completing this course, you could work in a health food shop, for a nutritional medicine company, in a fitness centre, as a nutrition journalist and more.

Start your own business. After successfully completing our Diet and Nutrition Advisor course, you will be sufficiently qualified to start and run your own private practice as a nutritionist or diet and nutrition advisor.

*Source: Mysalary.co.uk, Sept. 2012

Modules

• Unit: Introduction and Anatomy and Physiology
• Unit: The Digestive Process
• Unit: The Nutrient Groups
• Unit: Minerals and Water
• Unit: Carbohydrates and Proteins
• Unit: Nutrition - you are what you eat
• Unit: Guidelines to compiling eating programmes
• Unit: Metabolism and exercise
• Unit: Allergies and intolerances
• Unit: The Yeast Menace
• Unit: Food combining and supplements
• Unit: Deficiencies and Disorders
• Unit: Disease states
• Unit: Vegetarians and fats

For a more detailed syllabuson this course, click here

Entry Requirements

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this nutrition course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.

*You will have access to the course for 24 months.

Assessment Method

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

What's Included

• All study materials
• Study Guide
• Full Tutor and Admin support
• The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £30.00).

At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

Level 3 Diet and Nutrition Advisor Certificate of Achievement

The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that learndirect has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The course itself has been designed learndirect to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales

To view a sample of the Certificate of Achievement, please click here.