Nutritionist

Organisation

Blackburn Rovers Football & Athletic Ltd

Salary

Commensurate with experience

Location

Blackburn Rovers Academy, Brockhall Village, Old Langho, Blackburn, BB6 8BA. Flexibility regarding location is required.

Contract type

Permanent (Full time)

Closing date

5 August 2026

Job Description

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; 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.

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.

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.

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)

How to apply

Due to high-levels of interest, this post may close early so early application is advised, otherwise the closing date for this role is 5pm on Wednesday 5th August 2026. To apply, please submit your application through the EFL I-Recruit platform HERE CV’s will not be accepted.

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