Performance Nutritionist

The Performance Nutritionist is responsible for leading and delivering the club's nutrition strategy across all football programmes to optimise player health, availability, recovery, adaptation, and performance. As a member of the multidisciplinary performance team, the role provides expert nutritional support to first-team, academy, programmes, ensuring nutrition is fully integrated into the club's performance philosophy. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The role includes, but is not limited to:

• Lead the club's nutrition strategy, aligning nutritional practices with the club's performance objectives and long-term player development philosophy.
• Provide strategic and practical nutrition support to first-team, academy, and other designated football programmes.
• Design, implement, and evaluate individualised nutrition plans to optimise performance, recovery, body composition, injury rehabilitation, and long-term athlete development.
• Lead the integration of nutrition into the multidisciplinary performance model, working collaboratively with medical, sports science, strength and conditioning, psychology, coaching, and football operations staff.
• Conduct comprehensive nutritional assessments using validated methods and performance data to inform evidence-based interventions.
• Develop nutrition protocols for training, match preparation, recovery, travel,, hydration, supplementation, and injury management.
• Oversee supplement policies and governance, ensuring all products are appropriately risk assessed, batch tested where required, and compliant with anti-doping regulations.
• Work closely with the Performance Chef and catering team to ensure all food provision aligns with nutritional objectives, performance demands, and individual player requirements.
• Lead nutrition planning for travel, ensuring appropriate food provision and nutritional support across all environments.
• Deliver nutrition education programmes for players, coaches, and staff to promote informed decision-making and positive nutrition behaviours.
• Establish and maintain robust systems for monitoring player nutrition, dietary intake, body composition, hydration status, and intervention outcomes.
• Contribute to return-to-play programmes by integrating nutritional strategies into rehabilitation plans in collaboration with the medical and performance teams., This document is a guide only and should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline indication of the areas of activity and will be amended in the light of changing needs of the organisation. All employees may be required to undertake any other duties as may be reasonably requested.
Millwall Football Club are fully committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-discrimination. We will work to address areas of under-representation and disadvantage in all aspects of our operations, activities and services. In practice, this means that we will respect the needs of each and every individual regardless of their differences; and to this end we will deliver our operations, activities and services in such a way so as to ensure that no one is excluded. Millwall Football Club is a Disability Confident Committed employer (Level 1). If you have a disability or long-term health condition and require any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to accommodate your needs. 'Millwall FC is committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk. The successful candidate may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check through The FA DBS process. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information given.' Safeguarding Policy Statement Because of the nature of the work undertaken by The Millwall Football and Athletic Company (1985) Limited (MFC), it is required by law to have in place robust safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure the protection of children, young people and adults at risk. To ensure that MFC meets that duty - and as part of a proactive, integrated and consistent approach to safeguarding - the organisation has developed a Safeguarding Handbook. What is safeguarding? Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and protect them from harm. Safeguarding means protecting people from abuse, maltreatment, neglect, harm and/or exploitation. Through MFC setting up and following good safeguarding policies and procedures, it means that children, young people and adults at risk - that come into contact with our organisation - are protected from those that might pose a risk. All organisations that work with (or come into contact with) children, young people and adults at risk are required to have safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure that everyone - regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity - can be protected from harm. MFC's Safeguarding Ethos MFC will always seek to provide protection to any person that receives our services. To this end MFC will provide staff and volunteers with guidance on procedures they should adopt in the event that they suspect a person may be experiencing, or be at risk of, harm. MFC believes that a no one should ever experience abuse of any kind. MFC have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk to keep them safe. MFC are committed to work in a way that protects them. This Safeguarding Policy Statement applies to everyone that comes into contact with MFC - including as applicable - the Board of Directors & Executive Team, Senior Managers, Staff, Agency Staff, Contractors, Suppliers, Volunteers, Students on work experience, as well as anyone else working on behalf of MFC. This policy also applies to any other person that engages with the work of MFC and includes parents, carers, families and other visitors to MFC premises. Safeguarding at MFC MFC places the safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk as its prime focus and has developed full safeguarding policies and procedures. To underpin the approach, MFC ensures all of its management team, staff members and volunteers have been fully trained in safeguarding to enable the organisation to live and breathe its approach. In developing MFC's safeguarding policies and procedures, the organisation has adopted the following three-part safeguarding strategy which focuses on: 1. Getting the right people involved with MFC This is achieved through adherence to MFC's Safer Recruitment Policies and Procedures. 2. Creating a safe environment for children, young people & adults at risk This is achieved by providing all required safeguarding training, support and best practice advice; and further guidance by the effective communication of MFC's Codes of Conduct. 3. Promoting clear systems to deal with any safeguarding concerns This is achieved through implementation of all MFC's policies and procedures relating to safeguarding. A full copy of MFC's Safeguarding Handbook is available by speaking with (or contacting) the MFC person responsible for safeguarding.


• Master's degree in Nutrition, Sports Nutrition, or a related field.
• Certification on the Sports and Exercise Nutrition Registration (SENR) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) or equivalent credential.
• ISAK accreditation (or equivalent recognised anthropometry qualification).
• UKAD accreditation
• Significant applied experience providing nutrition support at elite/professional level
• Proven ability to design and deliver individualised nutrition programmes
• Excellent player-facing skills: energetic, engaging, and trusted by athletes
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, including with external stakeholders
• Commitment to continuous professional development
• Flexibility to accommodate varying schedules, including evenings, weekends, and travel with the team(s) as required.
How to Apply: To comply with safer recruitment procedures for the Club we are unable to accept CV's without an application form accompanied.