First Team Physical Performance Coach

Job Summary

This role supports first-team physical performance provision at Tottenham Hotspur, with a strong emphasis on athlete monitoring, performance data, training load, readiness, testing, reporting, and applied decision-making. The post holder is expected to collect, analyse, interpret, and communicate physical performance information from GPS, gym-based testing, athlete monitoring systems, and other performance technologies. The role also includes supporting training interventions, return-to-performance planning, on-field physical warm-ups, individual pitch sessions, gym-based delivery, CPD contribution, research and innovation activity, and collaboration across the sports science, medical, coaching, and performance teams.

This role supports first-team physical performance provision at Tottenham Hotspur, with a strong emphasis on athlete monitoring, performance data, training load, readiness, testing, reporting, and applied decision-making. The post holder is expected to collect, analyse, interpret, and communicate physical performance information from GPS, gym-based testing, athlete monitoring systems, and other performance technologies. The role also includes supporting training interventions, return-to-performance planning, on-field physical warm-ups, individual pitch sessions, gym-based delivery, CPD contribution, research and innovation activity, and collaboration across the sports science, medical, coaching, and performance teams.

IUSCA IQF Classification

This role appears to align with IQF Level 7, as it involves advanced scientific practitioner capability within an elite first-team professional football environment. The role requires interpretation of complex athlete monitoring and performance data, integration of GPS, gym-based testing, subjective and objective readiness measures, training load, fatigue, wellness, recovery, and return-to-performance information. It also requires communication of complex data to coaches, medical staff, and players, alongside practical influence on training prescription, interdisciplinary planning, injury risk reduction, and performance decision-making. Although the role does not appear to include primary departmental leadership, the level of expertise, complexity, autonomy, professional judgement, and master’s-level requirement indicate advanced practice beyond a standard Level 6 practitioner role.

Associated IUSCA IQF Certification

IUSCA IQF Level 7 Accredited International Strength and Conditioning Practitioner (aISCP*m)

Salary and Role Alignment

Grey. Salary is not disclosed, so full salary and role alignment cannot be assessed. However, this role carries substantial advanced practitioner responsibility within a Premier League first-team environment, including master’s-level essential qualification requirements, extensive elite sport experience, advanced athlete monitoring, data analysis, interdisciplinary communication, return-to-performance support, travel, unsociable hours, and influence on training and performance decision-making.

IUSCA recommended minimum salary: £60,000 per year

This minimum recommendation reflects the Level 7 classification, the essential MSc requirement, the elite first-team context, the level of complexity, and the expectation that the practitioner can interpret and communicate advanced performance data to influence coaching, medical, and player decision-making. A higher salary may be appropriate if the role includes substantial responsibility for departmental systems, practitioner leadership, strategic planning, or first-team decision authority.

IUSCA Alignment Statement

This role has been classified by IUSCA based on publicly available information. The classification is intended to support professional transparency and help practitioners and employers understand the relationship between role scope, responsibility, autonomy, qualification expectations, and salary alignment. Applicants should review the original advert before applying.