At a Glance
- Tasks: Support elite players with tailored nutritional advice and educational programmes.
- Company: Join Blackburn Rovers Academy, a leading sports organisation.
- Benefits: Permanent position with competitive salary and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for research and travel with the first team.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in athletes' performance and well-being.
- Qualifications: Degree in Sports Science/Nutrition and knowledge of sports nutrition required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
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
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)
Nutritionist in Blackburn employer: EFL
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