PGA Physical Performance Coach (Women’s)
Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.
We offer world-class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.
We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.
There is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur.
The Role
We’re currently recruiting a Physical Performance Coach within our Professional Girls Academy to assist in the development and implementation of the physical performance strategy, aligned with the Women’s first team.
About You
- Deliver an integrated physical performance service programme in the PGA, assisting with duties in the Women’s first team when required
- Work within the wider physical performance team to ensure a streamlined performance support provision throughout all age groups
- Evaluate and assess Women’s PGA players to ensure they are meeting the physical requirements of the next level
- Collaborate with the injury management team to deliver S&C programmes that contribute to the rehabilitation of injury and return to play
- Monitor the growth and maturation of the players in the PGA squads
- Plan and deliver field and gym-based sessions for PGA players, including multi-sport exposure, ensuring a high standard of service
- Collect, analyse and report daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal performance data of all PGA players
- Display evidence of continued professional development and utilise this to provide ideas of research-based innovative, practical strategies that are tailored to elite footballers
- Any other adhoc duties as deemed necessary by the Lead PGA physical performance coach
What you will bring
- A post-graduate qualification in Strength and Conditioning or Sport Science. Degree programmes must have included aspects related to physical preparation for sporting performance (e.g. physiology, kinesiology, anatomy, biomechanics and nutrition)
- UKSCA, NSCA or BASES Accreditation (or achievable within 6 months)
- First Aid Qualification
- A thorough understanding of the various sports science disciplines and their impact on the training and performance of elite athletes
- Experience in delivering physical performance coaching in sport, ideally with youth athletes
- Experience handling and analysing performance data
- A good understanding of scientific methods of trialling and validating assessment, monitoring and evaluation equipment and protocols
- Excellent academic and applied knowledge of contemporary practice in physical performance development
- Experience of having worked within sports
- UEFA C Licence (or ability to achieve within 6-12 months)
The Tottenham Hotspur Way
Is to push harder, rise higher and forge greater. We involve, inspire and elevate one another to be our best selves, to produce exceptional on and off the pitch. Every day brings us opportunities to improve and make the impossible, possible.
Our values that bind us
DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE – Impossible made possible when we think outside the box
DARE TO CHANGE THE GAME – Relentlessly strive for glory and leave our mark on the world
DO IT OUR WAY – Win the right way, never at all costs.
Our Responsibility to you
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.
We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
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