Higher Vocational Training

Dietetics

What do you study in Dietetics?

The Higher Technician in Dietetics qualification trains you to design diets tailored to individuals and groups, control the quality of food and teach people to eat better. It sits in the health sector, with openings too in institutional catering and the food industry.

  • Balanced nutrition and nutritional status assessment
  • Diet therapy for people with medical conditions
  • Food control, microbiology and food hygiene
  • Health education and promotion of healthy habits
  • Pathophysiology applied to dietetics

Once qualified you can work as a dietitian, dietetics and nutrition technician, catering food manager, food hygiene technician or health educator, in hospitals, primary care, public health, institutional canteens and the food industry.