Nutritionist in Blackburn

Blackburn Full-Time No working from home possible

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Job title: Nutritionist

Department: Academy/Senior Performance Department/Women’s

Based at: Blackburn Rovers Academy, Senior Training Centre, Brockhall Village, Blackburn, BB6 8BA/8FA. Flexibility regarding location is required.

Reports to: Head of Academy Sports Science & Medicine & Head of 1st Team Performance

Responsible for: N/A

Hours of work: 40 hours per week plus any additional hours necessary for the performance of duties. This may include evening and weekend work.

Contractual Status: Permanent

Job purpose

To provide nutritional support to all academy/STC players, parents and coaches.

Duties and responsibilities

To be committed to ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of all elite players, promoting their well-being whilst maintaining professional boundaries
To lead nutritional monitoring of all players
To ensure all players and parents have specific nutritional support and educational program
To liaise with house parents, parents and coaches as required
To ensure all written evidence is up to date as per EPPP requirements
To create external links as required
To maintain an up to date CPD portfolio
Ensure best practice is followed at all times and players are receiving optimal advice at all times
To assist and lead departmental in-service training as and when required
To ensure appropriate moments are taken to review the delivery and associated effectiveness of the program
To create a nutritional framework to guide the nutrition provision for the senior players including body composition; hydration status, biochemical testing
To create an education program targeted at improving all Blackburn Rovers FC players nutritional knowledge
Create nutrition protocols for the senior players for key training days; ensuring nutritional intake is directly linked to GPS data & player expenditure
To assist the Football Catering Manager in devising and implementing an effective club feeding strategy
To provide a regular audit of the nutrition offerings to players within the STC and Academy
To suggest and design individual nutritional programs for players including key supplementation requirements
To support the catering staff with food labels around the performance plating of food
To travel with first team to away games and oversee the nutritional details and quality of both hotel and travel food offering for players
To work towards at least 2 peer reviewed, research papers using the clubs data sets collected per season
To provide injured players nutritional support from a key supplementation perspective & nutritional habits during injury

Skills required

IT literate
Ability to communicate with internal and external parties
To work in a team environment
Ability to perform group and individual verbal presentations
Ability to independently manage workload
Ability to project manage

Knowledge required

Knowledge of current sport science and nutritional practice with particular specialism in sports nutrition
Good knowledge of Safeguarding/child protection policies and procedures
Knowledge of an elite sporting environment
Pediatric physiological development

Qualifications required

Degree in Sports Science/Nutrition or related discipline (essential)
ISAK (or ability to obtain in 6 months – essential)
Master Degree in Sports Nutrition
SENR registered (desirable)
Working towards a PhD in Football or sport nutrition

DBS check required: Yes (Enhanced)

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