Tottenham
First Team Performance Rehabilitation Coach
Job description
Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London.
Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.
In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.
The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.
Tottenham Hotspur has:
- A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
- A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
- Commercial partnerships with globally recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company.
- A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040.
- An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health, and social inclusion programmes.
A unique opportunity has arisen to join Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as a Performance Rehabilitation Coach, reporting to the Head of Sports Science.
The Club is seeking a Performance Rehabilitation Coach to be responsible for leading and delivering all rehabilitation training for injured players. It is expected the successful candidate will be capable of working within a multidisciplinary team of doctors, physiotherapists, S&C, performance, and technical coaches to deliver an industry-leading rehabilitation performance plan.
The candidate will be expected to have strong skills in technological systems essential for planning and evaluating training outcomes and adaptations. A large input into the processes of player sustainability will be a key feature to this role to ensure players’ return to performance is sustained in the weeks following RTP. This role will also include other performance support work with the first team playing squad where required.
Job purpose
- Support the full MDT team of medical and performance staff, with the creation, and both on- and off-field delivery of rehabilitation programmes.
- Provide elite level physical conditioning work for players to maximise their rehabilitation process and optimal return to performance, in line with the Club’s philosophy
- Provide elite-level gym programming prescription, progression and adaptation for rehabilitating players.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and deliver individualised industry leading pitch rehabilitations.
- Work collaboratively with the treating physiotherapist / S&C to ensure the progression of plinth to pitch RTT is seamless, progressive and motivational.
- Demonstrate strong physiological and biomechanical knowledge to ensure program progressions of S&C are performed to the highest level.
- Have strong experience of technological systems and how such systems link to the physiology of football, including styles of play and positional demands.
- Proven experience of communicating and disseminating knowledge and information of rehabilitation progressions within a high-performance environment.
- Ensure data collection is maintained to the highest standard and utilised in a rational and objective manner.
- Support the sustainability process of players RTP.
- Assist with individual performance support work for the 1st team squad where required.
Main job requirements and person specification
Essential:
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- MSc in Sport Science, Rehabilitation, or Strength and Conditioning.
- BASES Accredited.
- UKSCA, CSCS or ASCA Accredited.
- Experienced in elite sport delivering high performance rehabilitation training.
- Evidence of planning and delivering rehabilitation programming in an elite sport environment.
- Computer literate.
Desirable:
- PhD/ DProf in Sport Science, Rehabilitation or Strength and Conditioning.
- BASES High Performance Accreditation.
- UEFA B/A Licence.
Personal specification
- Critical and reflective thinker.
- Clear values and team player.
- Prepared to communicate effectively and honestly.
- Ability to lead and drive self and others.
- Adaptable behavioural style.
- Comfortable working under pressure with sound and rationale decision making processes.
- Ability to build positive relationships with key stakeholders (internally and externally).
- Invested in continuous personal development.
How to apply
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You must be eligible to work in the UK. This role is full time, with shifts being set as per the needs of the business. The role holder will be expected to have a flexible approach to working hours, and evening and weekend work will be a requirement.
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.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.