Nutritionist

1. Job purpose:

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

2. 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; and
• 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; and
• To provide injured players nutritional support from a key supplementation
perspective & nutritional habits during injury.

3. 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; and
• Ability to project manage.

4. 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; and
• Pediatric physiological development.

5. 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; and
• SENR registered (desirable).
• Working towards a PhD in Football or sport nutrition
DBS check required: Yes (Enhanced)