Nutritional therapist

As a nutritional therapist, you could:

• talk to clients about their diet, health and lifestyle
•  carry out tests
•  discuss test results and agree on a treatment plan
•  monitor a client's progress
•  refer clients on to other healthcare services when necessary

• excellent verbal communication skills
• active listening skills
• customer service skills
• sensitivity and understanding
• knowledge of biology
• to be thorough and pay attention to detail
• the ability to work well with others
• thinking and reasoning skills
• to be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device

You can get into this job through a university course.

Once you are established, you could:

• specialise in working with people with specific medical conditions like arthritis or chronic fatigue
•  expand your business to offer other therapy services
•  move into teaching, write about nutritional therapy or do research