Academy Nutritionist Tottenham Hotspur Football & Athletic Co Ltd in City of London

Overview

Who We Are

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We offer world-classfacilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.

There is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur.

The Role

We’re currently recruiting an Academy Nutritionist to work across both our Women’s PGA and FDP/YDP age groups of the Boy’s Academy (0.5 at each academy). This role will focus on developing, implementing and integrating a nutrition service programme, prioritising education for players, parents and coaches within both academies. The candidate will work closely with the wider nutrition and performance teams across the Women’s first team, boy’s academy and men’s first team to align practices and drive a world-class nutrition service that optimises player performance and availability.

What you will bring

• Degree level or equivalent in appropriate subject (e.g. Nutrition, Sports Science, Dietetics) with post-graduate qualification in a relevant area (e.g. MSc, IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition).
• Graduate registrant on the Sport and Exercise Nutrition register (SENr) – minimum
• Experience in professional sport, ideally women’s and/or youth sport, with an interest in football, and the importance of promoting and supporting equality, safeguarding and anti-doping in sport.
• An excellent understanding of the various principles of performance nutrition that relate to the wellbeing, physical development and performance of young athletes.
• A passion for food, with a dynamic ability to translate food science into practical advice for footballers and use excellent, engaging communication skills to motivate behavioural change in those individuals that require it.
• An understanding of the various sports science/sports medicine disciplines, how they integrate with sports nutrition and a verifiable record of working within a high performance multi-disciplinary team to deliver an effective programme.
• Flexible, adaptable, creative, and a confident communicator.
• Full UK Driving License to accommodate travel to multiple training sites for the Women’s PGA.

Responsibilities

• Lead the provision of an integrated nutrition service in the Women’s PGA, assisting with duties in the Women’s first team when required.
• Lead the development and implementation of a nutrition education programme for the Boy’s Academy FDP and YDP age groups, with delivery to players, parents and coaches.
• Work alongside the Women’s First Team Nutritionists to align practice across the PGA into the first team and ensure players understand and consistently implement the nutrition fundamentals.
• Work alongside the U18s and U21s boy’s Academy Nutritionists, as well as the Head of Academy Sports Science, to deliver world-class education and nutrition services, to meet the objectives and vison of the Sport Science Department and Academy Management.
• Design and deliver innovative, educational workshops, including practical ones, for players, parents and host families across both academies, focusing on the importance of nutrition for player health, nourishment, performance, growth and development.
• Contribute to policies, strategies and best practice documents for both the boy’s FDP/YDP and the Women’s PGA.
• Support and advise on match day strategies including fuelling, hydration and recovery across both academies and multiple age groups.
• Work 1-1 with players to optimise nutrition for performance, recovery and injury.
• Build and maintain strong inter departmental working relationships, working most closely with the respective nutrition and catering teams across both academies to develop world-leading food first provision.

The Tottenham Hotspur Way

Is to push harder, rise higher and forge greater. We involve, inspire and elevate one another to be our best selves, to produce exceptional on and off the pitch. Every day brings us opportunities to improve and make the impossible, possible.

Our values that bind us

DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE –Impossible made possible when we think outside the box

DARE TO CHANGE THE GAME –Relentlessly strive for glory and leave our mark on the world

DO IT OUR WAY –Win the right way, never at all costs.

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

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