Steve Head was recruited by Barry Simmonds in late 2014 to become Senior Scouting Manager.

Head was an associate schoolboy at Reading in the 1970s and played for the reserve and youth teams as well as two first team appearances in minor cup competitions. He left to accompnay colleague and friend Stuart Henderson to coach at Southampton in 1992, ending up as their youth team coach. After ten years, he joined Fulham where he initially worked in their academy before moving onto senior recruitment and opposition scouting. This was where he knew Simmonds.

He moved to Reading to become Head of Scouting in October 2012

Head left Norwich in 2015 and worked for Wolves as Senior International Scout.

In June 2016, he joined Charlton as Chief Scout

He left Charlton in March 2017.