Nutrition skills training for community workers / health professionals 

Level 2

This course is for you if you work with individuals, families or community groups and you would like to be able to pass on evidence-based, consistent food and nutrition messages to others and to deliver level 1 accredited food and nutrition skills courses. This course will develop your knowledge and skills in food and nutrition and provide you with ideas and resources to use with community groups supporting them to eat well.

There are 10 sessions, usually delivered as one session per week for 10 weeks. Courses can be delivered in 2 ways, either

• face to face as a 2 hour group teaching session in a community venue each week with one hour of homework, or

• virtually as a 2 hours self directed digital learning session and a 1-hour virtual face to face group session with a dietitian each week. 

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The Community Food and Nutrition Skills course is set at a level two and is worth three credits (30 guided learning hours). Accreditation demonstrate the level of learning you have achieved and to be awarded credit you must be able to demonstrate that you have met all the assessment criteria for the unit. No prior nutrition knowledge is required, there are no exams or essays to worry about, but to prove that you have met the assessment criteria you will be required to complete a portfolio of evidence for assessment. Attendance at the sessions is also an important part of the assessment.

The course tutor will support you with all aspects of the course and there will be support available after the course for those who want to put their learning into practice e.g. to implement and meet the food and nutrition component of the Healthy Schools Scheme and National Quality Award; to deliver the Food and Fun nutrition education sessions; to deliver Foodwise for Life or Foodwise in Pregnancy community healthy lifestyle programmes or to deliver and assess accredited level 1 Community Food and Nutrition Skills, Get Cooking or Come and Cook courses.