Sports Psychologist

City Football Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

City Football Group is seeking a Performance Psychologist to enhance player wellbeing and team performance. The role involves providing psychological support, fostering leadership qualities, and developing tailored interventions within a high-performance setting. Ideal candidates should have a postgraduate qualification in Psychology, experience with elite athletes, and strong communication skills.

Benefits

26 days annual leave plus an additional birthday off

Private healthcare plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Partnership and lifestyle discounts

Qualifications

• BPS Chartered or SEPAR status.
• HCPC registration.
• Experience providing psychological support to elite teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual player support for performance and wellbeing.
• Deliver leadership training to coaches and staff.
• Develop psychological interventions based on team needs.

Skills

Communication

Psychological profiling

Mentorship

Wellbeing promotion

Team collaboration

Education

Postgraduate qualification in Psychology or Sport Psychology

Job description

Closing Date of Applications - 28/07/25

Our Story

Manchester City Women is an English football club initiallyfounded by City in the Community in 1988. Relaunched by aformal partnership with Manchester City FC, MCWFC enteredthe FA Women’s Super League and professionalised in 2014.Success has followed in not only the FAWSL but also theWomen’s FA Cup and Continental Tyres League Cup, while theteam has regularly competed in the UEFA Women’s ChampionsLeague.

The team plays its home fixtures at Joie Stadium, a7,000capacityarena. The stadium sits on the wider Etihad Campus,which also encompasses the City Football Academy, a state-of-the-art training and development facility that houses itswomen’s, men’s and academy teams

For more information, please visit www.mancity.com .

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Purpose

Develop a psychologically informed system that supports the growth of resilient people perform to their potential.

To provide integrated performance psychology support to MCWFC that promotes stable and high-functioning leadership, positive mental health, effective decision making and performance under pressure. Contribute to efficient talent recruitment and positive transition experiences.

Your Impact

1. Provide targeted individual player facing support that promotes performance and/or wellbeing.

2. Provide bespoke leadership development and support to the captains/leadership group to promote positive leadership behaviours on and off the pitch.

3. Deliver individual and group leadership development to the MDT of coaches and practitioners to support the maintenance of a psychologically informed environment.

4. Provide individual support/consultation to football and non-football leaders to create a stable and high-functioning leadership spine.

5. Provide education & processes to promote positive wellbeing of players & staff, & facilitate life-skill development

6. Work with identified players to have documented, formulation-informed interventions, with proposed measures of efficacy.

7. Provide psycho-social insight to influence player & staff recruitment, onboarding & transitions.

8. Use evidence-based psycho-social profiling to develop performance.

What we are looking for

Essential

• High integrity, responsible and trustworthy

• Postgraduate qualification in Psychology or Sport Psychology

• BPS Chartered or SEPAR status

• HCPC registration

• Experience of providing psychological support to elite / professional teams, players, support staff and coaches

• Ability to communicate complex ideas, psychological constructs and interventions with simplicity and clarity to players, coaches and practitioners

• Thorough understanding of high-performance sport

• Experience of evaluating Team’s psychological needs, psychological profiling, MDT intervention design and delivery

• Ability to work independently and as part of a MDT and foster positive working relationships

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Flexibility and openness to work irregular and unsociable hours outside of ‘normal’ office hours (evening, weekends and bank holidays)

• Highly motivated with a passion for elite / professional sport

• Ability to facilitate group formulation and use psychological theory and frameworks to design interventions

Desirable

• Experience of providing psychological support to professional Football Teams

• Experience working with elite female athletes (team or individual sport)

• Ability to travel with teams throughout the UK and abroad if required

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.