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Lead Performance Nutritionist (First Team)
Brentford Football Club
Brentford Football Club is a professional football club in Brentford, West London, England, which competes in the Premier League, the highest tier of English football, having gained promotion via the playoffs at the end of the 2020–21 Championship season.
Job Posted- 14 Sep 2025
Status- Full Time
Location- England
Closing date- 26 Sep 2025
The Role of Lead Performance Nutritionist (First Team)
The Lead Performance Nutritionist will be responsible for delivering and embedding a world-leading nutrition strategy for Brentford’s First Team. This role will design and implement individualised player nutrition programmes, oversee supplementation, and drive the highest possible standards of fuelling, hydration, and recovery across all environments.
As both a strategist and practitioner, the postholder will set the direction for First Team nutrition, line-manage an additional First Team Nutritionist, and provide leadership across the Club’s wider nutrition philosophy. The role requires energy, strong player-facing ability, and the capacity to up-manage and influence coaches, performance, and medical staff, while also managing relationships with external stakeholders connected to the players.
Main Accountabilities
- Provide the overall First Team nutrition strategy, establishing Brentford as world-leading in nutrition provision.
- Design and deliver individualised nutrition programmes for all First Team players.
- Lead on fuelling, hydration, recovery, and supplementation strategies, ensuring alignment with training and competition demands.
- Champion and embed a “food first” approach across the First Team.
- Line-manage the First Team Nutritionist, ensuring alignment, development and delivery of high standards.
- Collaborate with chefs and catering staff to ensure menus are high quality, periodised, and tailored to individual and squad needs.
- Monitor and report on player nutrition and performance impact (body composition, hydration, anti-doping awareness, nutritional knowledge).
- Provide clear, data-driven feedback to coaches and staff on player status and progress.
- Deliver hands-on provision where required (supplements, matchday fuelling and recovery, rehab support).
- Support international players in maintaining nutrition programmes and club supplementation while away.
- Liaise with players’ external stakeholders (personal chefs, private nutritionists, trainers, psychologists, families, etc.), ensuring alignment with Club standards.
- Influence and up-manage senior staff, ensuring nutrition is integrated within coaching, medical, and performance planning.
- Contribute actively to Research & Development projects, CPD, and continuous improvement in performance nutrition.
- To ensure that any concerns you observe, or are raised with you in your role, are shared with the Safeguarding Team through appropriate channels.
General Club Accountabilities
- To ensure compliance with all relevant Club policies, including health and safety policies and with specific reference to the data regulations
- To ensure compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, ethical, and social requirements
- To ensure compliance with the Club’s Safeguarding Policy and processes.
- To ensure compliance with the Club’s Code of Conduct
- To actively embed equity, diversity and inclusion into the operations and strategy of your team, in line with our EDI strategy
- To build and maintain good working relationships both internally and externally, maintaining a professional image at all times when representing Brentford FC
- To keep confidential any information gained regarding the Club and its personnel
- To maintain a flexible approach to work at all times
- Any other relevant tasks and duties as directed by your line manager
Person Specification - Essential Personal Characteristics
- BSc in Sports Nutrition or related discipline
- SENr registration (or eligible)
- Significant applied experience providing nutrition support at elite/professional level
- Proven ability to design and deliver individualised nutrition programmes
- Line management or supervisory experience
- Excellent player-facing skills: energetic, engaging, and trusted by athletes
- Ability to up-manage and influence senior staff in multidisciplinary environments
- Strong knowledge of performance nutrition, supplementation, hydration, and recovery
- Proven ability to interpret and apply data (DXA, body composition monitoring, nutritional analysis)
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, including with external stakeholders
- Commitment to continuous professional development
Person Specification - Desirable Characteristics
- MSc or higher degree in Sports Nutrition or related field
- Experience in professional football
- Experience supporting international athletes
- Experience overseeing catering provision in a performance setting
- Record of applied research or published work in sports nutrition
How to Apply
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