About the course
Dietitians are experts in nutrition who can assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutrition-related problems. This programme will give you the knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable you to be eligible to apply to be a dietitian through the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
You’ll gain an understanding of the science and composition of food and how nutrition and diet therapy can be used to prevent and treat chronic and acute diseases that can affect people throughout their lifespan.
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Through practice-based learning, you’ll work with service users to develop your newly acquired knowledge, skills and professional behaviours alongside practicing dietitians in a range of different settings, from local NHS trusts to personal trainers running their own businesses.
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If you want to be a dietitian and ordinarily resident in the UK, you can apply for a grant of £5,000 per year to study this course. This doesn’t need to be paid back.
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This course is undergoing accreditation by the British Dietetic Association (BDA).
Final validation pending
As a new programme to the university and HCPC, we are currently ensuring that it meets all of the academic and professional standards required. 'Final validation pending' means that we intend to offer this programme, but it hasn't received final university approval yet. It is also subject to receiving HCPC approval. Please call our Admissions Service on 01482 466850 for confirmation that the course is approved and will be running.
What you'll study
Our curriculum is designed to develop not only core dietetic and evidence-informed practice skills but also leadership and enterprise skills.
Practice-based learning is an essential part of training as a dietitian. You’ll spend 28 weeks over the two-year programme working hands-on with dietitians from our practice partners in different settings within the Humber, Coast and Vale region. These placement opportunities will give you a fantastic basis for starting your dietetic career, with many of the local NHS trusts offering financial and training incentives to graduate dietitians.
We have links with social media influencers and personal trainers (who are also qualified dietitians) in the region. Local dietitians and other health care professionals will provide hands on teaching methods across a broad range of topics, providing you with the most up-to-date practical knowledge and skills. Further extra-curricular opportunities are available within the city’s sporting sector courtesy of our well-established links with professional clubs such as Hull FC, Hull Kingston Rovers and Hull City.
You’ll complete this programme with your own research project, giving you the opportunity to apply for publication in a scientific journal and broaden the nutrition evidence base further.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Clinical Dietetics 1: Lifespan, Lifestyle and Long-term Conditions
This is the first of two clinical dietetics modules. Learn about the aetiology and pathogenesis of diseases that can occur throughout the human lifespan and how nutrition and diet therapy can prevent, treat and manage these conditions.
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The Composition of Food
This module will equip you with the knowledge and skills of ‘all things food related’ and how these are applied in practice in different settings; from hospitals to care homes to the international food industry. Understand how food manipulation impacts on health and develop your own cooking skills by working alongside professional chefs in our campus kitchen. Guest speakers, such as local artisan bakers, food scientists and nutritionists, will complement the training of this module, ensuring you acquire the relevant knowledge and skills to support your progression to a graduate dietitian.
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Public Health and Health Promotion
This module will provide you with a critical understanding of public health nutrition and health promotion as well as the encompassing legislation. Advances in technology in healthcare will be studied, giving you the opportunity to produce your very own health promotion resource.
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The Professional Dietitian
Develop your understanding and awareness of the principles and values underpinning professional behaviour in practice, from being a student dietitian and beyond. You will enhance your communication and behaviour change skills and have an opportunity to spend three weeks on your first practice placement to be able to start to put your newly developed knowledge and skills into practice.
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Clinical Dietetics 2: Applied Nutritional Support
Using the technologies and facilities of the award-winning Allam Medical Building and the wealth of clinical experience from our module tutors, this module will enable you to develop your dietetic knowledge and skills to be able to assess, plan, justify and implement nutrition support strategies, including food fortification, tube feeding and intravenous nutrition, for a range of clinical conditions.
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Evidence Informed Practice
This module offers a stimulating and practical insight into the dietetic evidence base. Develop your understanding and ability to conduct clinical research, audit and service evaluations in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Reflection & Consolidation of Practice
Including 24 weeks of practice-based learning, this module gives you the opportunity to reflect, develop and consolidate your dietetic knowledge, skills and behaviours that you will have learnt over the duration of the programme by working alongside the dietetic workforce in your final placements. Create your own professional portfolio and prepare yourself for a career as a practicing dietitian.
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Research for Dietetic Practice
This module will enable you to advance your research skills to undertake a nutrition related systematic literature review which you will present in a conference-style format to potential regional employers. You will be primed to become an evidence-based autonomous practitioner and ready to practice in the dietetic workforce.