Senior Academy Physiotherapist Glasgow & The West

The Role

Working within the Glasgow & West Academy, you will lead the medical team in providing high quality physiotherapy care to Scottish Academy Players.

You will be required to connect with the wider Scottish Rugby Academy, to positively contribute to the Scottish Rugby medical team through clinical provision, research, and education.

You will be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills to optimise the output from the medical team and excellent assessment/ management skills, through strong clinical reasoning. Further key clinical roles will include analysis of injury data and implementation of robustness strategies, working closely with the strength and conditioning team to reduce injury risk where able.

On top of this you will work with the rugby coaches to help with player development whilst providing on-field training and match first aid cover to regional and national squads where required.

Experience working within rugby or other contact sports would be of benefit as is an understanding of challenges working with adolescent athletes

This is a busy role and will require you to be flexible and fluid with the program. It can include early morning and/or evening work, weekend work and lone working. There is also travel within and out with the region, therefore it’s essential that you hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

To be successful in this post, you should have 5 years’ experience within musculoskeletal physiotherapy, with experience within a High-Performance environment. You will be required to pass and maintain a World Rugby Level 3 First Aid course qualification equivalent to SCRUMCAPS if you don’t already hold such. This post also requires a clean Protecting Vulnerable Groups check from Disclosure Scotland.

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