How To Become A Freelance Dietitian Uk
Indeed a significant number of former freelance dietitians have chosen to remove themselves from the dietetic register because they have found the register too restrictive.
How to become a freelance dietitian uk. If you re leaving a job to start your own business or even as a student mulling over next steps you need to prepare for a shift in. How to succeed at freelancing as a registered dietitian 27 may 2020 on nutrition. Here you ll find a huge range of expertise in diet and nutrition and a lot more besides and it s all available to you directly on a freelance or private basis. Give yourself a reality check.
Once you have joined the freelance dietitians group you will be able to add your profile and contact details to the site. Here s our checklist for how to go freelance focused as usual on the current watch points for uk businesses. A love of science and food is important and being empathetic and understanding. Harriet smith is a freelance registered dietitian based in surrey uk and the owner of surreydietitian co uk.
She works both as a health writer and as a consultant dietitian. We are all fully qualified uk registered dietitians and members of the bda with considerable first hand experience of the conditions and industries in which we operate. An example of this is me. And has now founded her company hrscommunications.
Nutrition is on everybody s mind these days. Salary a dietitian in the nhs starts on around 21 000 but as a freelancer i earn around 50 000. People want to live longer healthier lives which is directly attributed to eating a balanced diet. I qualified as a dietitian in 1995 and worked in the nhs in a range of clinical areas until 2002 when i chose to go completely freelance.
This can be done in a few easy steps. This is a strange topic for my blog however it seems that so many are wanting to go into the world of freelance in the dietitian and nutritionist area and so i thought it would be a good idea to write about the pros and cons of this from my own experience.