Nutrition Careers

Bring your knowledge of food and diet to the forefront in the ever-evolving world of nutrition careers. After exploring this field through a course of study, you will have your pick of a diverse range of clinical nutrition and nutrition jobs that help people improve their diet lifestyles and overall wellness.

Nutrition Advisor

Work with clients to design and implement a lifestyle program that supports their specific requirements.

As a Nutrition Advisor, you will provide tailored advice and create lifestyle programs that address clients’ nutritional health needs and wellness goals. Suitable for helping people from all walks of life, this is the type of work you can do in hospitals and nursing homes, as part of a larger team or one-on-one with personal clients.

What does a Nutrition Advisor do?

Educate and advise clients on the importance of food and nutrition for living a healthy life
Design, coordinate and implement detailed instructions for healthier living
Work alongside clients in setting achievable goals on their nutrition journey
Consult with specialised groups such as sport stars and performers

Nutrition Researcher

Work on the frontline, making new discoveries that benefit people around the world.

Discover insights and secrets of the relationships between food, health and wellbeing as a Nutrition Researcher. In this role, your focus is to expand our collective knowledge, whether you’re operating in a university environment, as part of a private company’s lab or in conjunction with a health-conscious online community.

What does a Nutrition Researcher do?

Co-operate with industry experts to developing cutting-edge research
Play a leading role in the evolution of nutritional habits and policy
Produce marketable products that improve people’s health
Advise government departments on public campaigns to help communities

Pharmacy Assistant

Kickstart your career in the pharmaceutical industry.

As a Pharmacy Assistant, you receive a solid grounding in both the customer service and pharmaceutical sides of the business, assisting people with prescriptions and advice, and working closely with pharmacists to provide the right medication or treatment. From there, you could open your own business or move into a related field – whether that’s in a health food shop or a larger corporation focused on nutrition.

What does a Pharmacy Assistant do?

Work with pharmacists to prepare medication for customers
Help customers choose remedies or products best suited to their needs
Provide sales advice on a range of goods, both medical and non-medical
Assist behind the scenes with customer records, monitoring stock levels and related business responsibilities

Product Developer

Design and distribute products that improve health and wellbeing.

Working alongside researchers and industry experts, as a Product Developer you will design or optimise nutrition-based goods in response to new discoveries and issues. This is a solutions-based role, focused on creating nutritional answers to questions that arise for individuals and communities.

What does a Product Developer do?

Combine your creativity and technical ability in pioneering health foods
Strategise and develop optimisation approaches for already-existing products
Work with a range of computer applications during the design process
Collaborate with experts across diverse fields from research to engineering

Explore Health Courses

Diploma of Nutrition
This course focuses on health science and the role of nutrition in wellbeing, creating the foundation for a career in health or further study.
Full time Part time

Online

Online

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Bachelor of Nutrition
Teaches you how to analyse, develop, coordinate, implement and evaluate nutrition intervention programs across health and wellbeing concerns. 
Full time Part time

Online

Online

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Bachelor of Health Science (Clinical Nutrition)
Learn how nutritional and lifestyle factors impact health, and understand nutritional principles, food-as-medicine traditions and therapeutics.
CRICOS 099642C
Full time Part time

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane

On campus Blended

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Product Developer

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Nutrition careers

Nutrition Advisor

What does a Nutrition Advisor do?

Nutrition Researcher

What does a Nutrition Researcher do?

Pharmacy Assistant

What does a Pharmacy Assistant do?

Product Developer

What does a Product Developer do?

Explore Health Courses

Study

Students

International students

Torrens University Australia