Job Description

Performance Supervision Lead
Organisation: UK Sport.
Salary: Grade 7 - 74,900 per annum plus generous benefits.
Location: Field Based
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 6th January 2026
About the Role
Lead the Future of High-Performance Supervision
Are you ready to shape the strategy behind professional development in high-performance sport?
We're recruiting a Performance Supervision Lead, a pivotal role driving the design and delivery of a national supervision framework that supports early-career practitioners, coaches, and leaders. This is your opportunity to influence system-wide standards, foster peer learning, and ensure supervision is integrated into broader workforce development strategies.
As Performance Supervision Lead, you'll set the vision and lead implementation of a supervision strategy that reflects best practice across human performance sciences, psychology, and clinical domains. You'll manage a team of supervisors, ensuring they're equipped and supported to deliver impactful supervision that promotes professional growth and consistency across the system.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Design and lead a national supervision strategy for early-career practitioners and coaches.
• Ensure the framework reflects best practice and integrates with wider learning and development pathways.
• Monitor and evolve the quality, reach, and impact of supervision across the system.

Line Management & Team Leadership

• Provide direct line management to Performance Supervision Advisors.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and development of supervisors.
• Facilitate team meetings, reflective practice sessions, and CPD opportunities.
• Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality supervision aligned with system values and professional standards.

Connection & Quality Assurance

• Work with the Performance Pathway Services Advisor and other advisors to align supervision with strategic workforce planning.
• Embed feedback mechanisms to inform and improve practice.
• Maintain oversight of supervision delivery across disciplines and sites for consistency and equity.
• Develop robust quality assurance processes, including documentation and reporting.

Learning & Development Signposting

• Collaborate with the Learning & Development team to identify development needs surfaced through supervision.
• Create clear pathways for practitioners to access resources, mentorship, and peer networks.
• Share system-wide insights to inform talent planning and workforce strategies.
• Explore internship and partnership offers to build a more representative, world-leading performance workforce for GB.

Peer Network Development

• Lead creation and management of peer learning communities and networks.
• Contribute to specialist working groups.
• Accelerate collaboration and knowledge sharing across practitioners, teams, and sports.
• Work with UK Sport Learning & Development and UK Sport Institute Performance Services to curate a global network of expertise.

A full role overview is available in the .
UK Sport is the nation's trusted high-performance experts, powering our greatest athletes, teams, sports, and events to achieve positive success.
Through strategic leadership and investment of National Lottery and Government funds since 1997, UK Sport has transformed the high-performance sporting system, winning more Olympic and Paralympic medals than ever before and is recognised as one of the top nations in the world for event hosting capabilities.
At UK Sport we will utilise the following the tools to support you on your own personal journey to success:

• Ways of Working Framework - UK Sport's Ways of Working centres around a central employee engagement plan, where we work and when we work, encouraging mutual trust and respect to create a flexible approach to works with your lifestyle.
• Access to 'The Learning Arena' - Drive your own development through access to our World Class Digital Learning experience used by the UK's High-Performance Coaches, Athletes and Practitioners.
• Enhanced Induction Programme - Ensuring you touch every part of the business and an introduction with our CEO within your first three months.

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