dietitiantodietetic technician
A dietitian already meets 79% of what the dietetic technician role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
79%
30.9/ 100
1 Share of the dietetic technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the dietitian profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A dietetic technician role treats 23 of its required skills as things a dietitian already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- calculation of food energy
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- composition of diets
What stands in the way is 6 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 30 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A dietetic technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a dietitian background worth leading with.
- already held calculation of food energy health and welfare
- already held educate healthcare users on nutrition communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held nutrition of healthy persons health and welfare
- already held obesity health and welfare
- already held composition of diets health and welfare
- already held dietetics health and welfare
All 30 carried skills, including the 23 the dietetic technician role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 8 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held prepare infant formulae required
- required, not held use food preparation techniques required
- required, not held food preservation required
- optional, not held european food safety policy optional
- required, not held plan patient menus required
- required, not held monitor stock level required
- required, not held food safety standards required
- optional, not held store raw food materials optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a dietetic technician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 plan patient menus skill · occupation specific
- 02 prepare infant formulae skill · occupation specific
- 03 food preservation knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 30 skills that carry over
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- already held calculation of food energy knowledge
- already held communicate in healthcare skill
- already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
- already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
- already held composition of diets knowledge
- already held counselling methods knowledge
- already held dietetics knowledge
- already held educate healthcare users on nutrition skill
- already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held food hygiene rules knowledge
- already held health care legislation knowledge
- already held human anatomy knowledge
- already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- already held identify nutritional properties of food skill
- already held interact with healthcare users skill
- already held medical informatics knowledge
- already held nutrition of healthy persons knowledge
- already held professional documentation in health care knowledge
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
- already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held geriatrics knowledge
- already held manage healthcare users' data skill
- already held medical terminology knowledge
- already held obesity knowledge
- already held pedagogy knowledge
- already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
2 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held european food safety policy optional
- optional, not held store raw food materials optional
73 held skills the dietetic technician role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role accept own accountability skill
- not needed by the target role address public health issues skill
- not needed by the target role advise food industry skill
- not needed by the target role advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
- not needed by the target role advise on preparation of diet food skill
- not needed by the target role advise sportspersons on diet skill
- not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
- not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
- not needed by the target role biological chemistry knowledge
- not needed by the target role business management principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role carry out bibliographic work skill
- not needed by the target role chemistry knowledge
- not needed by the target role clinical examinations in dietetics knowledge
- not needed by the target role communicate with media skill
- not needed by the target role conduct nutrition research skill
- not needed by the target role contribute to continuity of health care skill
- not needed by the target role contribute to public health campaigns skill
- not needed by the target role deliver group sessions on nutrition skill
- not needed by the target role develop policies for nutritional programs skill
- not needed by the target role eating disorders knowledge
- not needed by the target role educate on the prevention of illness skill
- not needed by the target role ensure safety of healthcare users skill
- not needed by the target role epidemiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role follow up nutrition care plan skill
- not needed by the target role food allergies knowledge
- not needed by the target role food authentication techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role food labels knowledge
- not needed by the target role food legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role food science knowledge
- not needed by the target role formulate dietetic intervention skill
- not needed by the target role general medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
- not needed by the target role human physiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify cause of nutritional imbalance skill
- not needed by the target role identify the dietetic professional quality of care skill
- not needed by the target role identify the health benefits of nutritional changes skill
- not needed by the target role inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
- not needed by the target role intensive care medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals skill
33 further entries not listed here
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held food preservation required
- required, not held food safety standards required
- optional, not held european food safety policy optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.