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Brighton Women & Girls – Medical Manager

American Express Elite Football Performance Centre, Lancing
08 Nov, 2024

Contract

Full-time. Permanent

Job Description

Be part of making our women’s medical department the best in class!
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for providing exceptional medical care for the women’s and girls’ programme. Your responsibilities include delivering top-tier medical services at the first team level, integrating best practices across the player pathway, and managing and developing all medical staff within the programme.
 
You will provide leadership for the medical support services to the women’s and girls’ programme, including direct line management of the medical team. Your focus will be on ensuring that medical objectives are achieved and that services are delivered effectively.

Experience

Our ideal candidate will possess exceptional management and leadership skills, demonstrating a strong ability to make evidence-based decisions and think critically. You should have extensive experience working with elite athletes in a women’s team sports environment.
 
It is also essential that you hold the following qualifications:
  • MSc Sports Physiotherapy / Sports & Exercise Medicine or equivalent
  • Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  • Valid FA Safeguarding Workshop Certificate
  • Valid FA ATTMIF Emergency trauma qualification

 

Southampton Women & Girls – Doctor

Staplewood Training Ground
07 Nov, 2024

Contract

Part-time

Job Description

You will be providing medical services to the Girl’s and Women’s programme of Southampton Football Club.

Medical Services

In this role, you will provide medical services to players in the G&W programme of Southampton Football Club of all ages. You will ensure clinical issues, clinic cover, and match cover are organised. You may also cover Women’s 1st team training and matches as required as part of a medical cover rota according to league regulations.

 

You will develop best practice guidelines for screening, prevention and injury rehabilitation and align injury management across the wider Sports Medicine department. In addition, you will liaise with players, parents and staff to provide appropriate feedback on treatment of injuries. You will also accompany

to medical appointments/ scans as required.

Injury prevention

You will contribute to the injury prevention strategies including screening along with educating players in terms of injury prevention, injury care and post-match recovery.

Medical Screening

With the G&W Physiotherapist, you will provide a medical examination to all players upon entry into the programme (trialist & contracted) ensuring alignment with wider Sports Medicine processes.

Match day / Trauma care

You will need to attend all Women’s first team matches and provide pitch side trauma care and ensure emergency medical procedures are in place. You will also be responsible for Medical Emergency Action Plan and relevant health and safety processes for the locations used by the G&W programme and ensure these are aligned with the wider department procedures.

General

You will contribute to the strategy of Southampton and be an active part of the Medical and Science departments. You will work with the G&W physiotherapist to produce injury audit reports to assess injury management. In addition, you will be required to maintain accurate and secure medical records and oversee the maintenance and accuracy of these records by the Girl’s and Women’s medical team.

Essential Experience

  • A medical degree.
  • Licence to practice medicine.
  • A Diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine.
  • Range of clinical employment and experience appropriate to working in an elite and high expectation environment.
  • High Level clinical skills

Desirable skills and experience:

  • Safeguarding level 1/2/3
  • ATMMiF or equivalent pitch side emergency care qualification.
  • Ultrasound skills
  • Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams in a sporting environment

Birmingham City Women – Clinical Psychologist

Birmingham
06 Nov, 2024

Contract

Part-time (2 days a week)

Job Description

  • Supporting athletes and staff, assessing, diagnosing and supporting mental health challenges.
  • Helping to enhance wellbeing and performance.

Birmingham City Women – Social Media Executive

Birmingham
06 Nov, 2024

Take ownership of women’s social media channels and devise social media strategy.

Bristol City Women – First Team Operations

Robins High Performance Centre (BS8 3TN)
04 Nov, 2024

Contract

Full-time

Job Description

  • To work with the general manager on the operations of Bristol City Women’s Football club, including but not exclusive to; match-day operations, training, and facility operations
  • To work with the general manager on planning and delivery of all match day administration, communications, and operations for the First team
  • To be responsible for the co-ordination of First Team home matchday operations including the provision of stewards, medical support, club shop, hospitality, media, staff and volunteers
  • To be responsible for the co-ordination of away travel for first team including accommodation, travel and meals
  • Attend all home and away games
  • To be responsible for updating and maintaining the weekly Club schedule of activity with the RHPC Ops manager and sharing this with the appropriate personnel
  • To assist and plan in fan experience at all home games, to drive and increase fan attendances and engagement
  • Manage all player appearances for the first team by liaising with local clubs, Robins foundation and sponsors and partners
  • Work collaboratively with all Bristol City and Bristol Sport teams
  • Liaise with all club staff to ensure they are working effectively in their department
  • To be responsible for working alongside the Robins Foundation to generate and develop the club’s community programmes
  • To work with the safeguarding lead to have appropriate safeguarding updates across the women and girls pathway

Experience

Essential

  • Have excellent management, leadership, and communication skills with the experience, to plan, communicate, align, and integrate diverse solutions to cultivate the best environment for our team
  • Have experience in an operational role
  • Have excellent communication skills with the ability to build meaningful, strategic relationships
  • Hold high standard of professional and personal integrity
  • Committed to diversity, equal opportunities, and professional development
  • Able to work under pressure with own initiative

Desirable

  • Two years previous experience of working within the Women’s game, at International, Women’s Super League or Championship level
  • Experience of an operational role within professional football
  • Lead operations on a stadium game

Tottenham Hotspur Women – Head of Sports Science

Training Centre
31 Oct, 2024

Contract

Full-time, maternity cover

Job Description

  • To lead and manage the Women’s 1st Team Sport Science (SS) support delivery; inclusive of performing applied practitioner duties.
  • Design, develop and implement a world-leading female athlete health strategy which optimises the health and performance of players.
  • Align the Women’s 1st Team nutrition, physical development and sport psychology programme to the football performance strategy of the club and 1st team coach.
  • Provide line management of the Women’s 1st team physical performance, sport psychology and nutrition staff; including the maintenance of individual reviews and appraisal.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • To develop and maintain effective assessment and evaluation techniques to monitor the progression of the Women’s 1st Team performance objectives.
  • To ensure the practical implementation of best SS practice for Women’s 1st Team players.
  • To ensure the ongoing development of best practice within all areas of Women’s 1st Team sport science
  • To align the Academy sport science delivery, ensuring players are physically prepared to progress into the Women’s 1st
  • Oversee the development and delivery of female athlete health strategy in collaboration with the wider MDT, to educate both staff and players.
  • Maintain and continually develop academic, clinical and applied networks to enhance the departments knowledge and support of female athlete health.
  • Lead an integrated nutrition service within the Women’s team.
  • Provide leadership in the continued development of the Women’s 1st Team sport science staff.
  • Create an environment that encourages creative solutions and innovation amongst the department.
  • Encourage an interdisciplinary approach of working within the Women’s 1st team that includes close liaison with colleagues within the Academy.
  • To maintain all legal and professional qualifications in relation to own profession and the equivalent standards for all SS staff within the department.
  • To ensure close liaison and excellent lines of communication between the SS department, the coaching staff, and the wider MSS team.
  • To maintain detailed records for the department of all SS actions in accordance with relevant legislation, policies, and procedures and to aid in the creation of regular reports to key stakeholders.
  • In conjunction with the Director of Performance Services, facilitate SS research projects within the Women’s 1st Team to underpin practice.
  • Liaise with the Director of Performance services and the training ground operations staff to continually develop and manage SS facilities and equipment.
  • To review budgetary needs for the SS department in coordination with the Director of Performance Services.
  • Liaise with all relevant departments within the football club and the THFC Board of Directors
  • Direct the latest research findings into clear and practical recommendations across the club
Experience

Specific Experience

  • A post graduate qualification within the disciplines of Sport Science (e.g. physiology, biomechanics, psychology, strength and conditioning, nutrition).
  • Discipline specific professional accreditation e.g. UKSCA accreditation as a strength and conditioning coach, BASES accredited sport scientist, Practitioner registrant on the Sport and Exercise Nutrition register (SENr), HCPC registered sport and exercise psychologist.
  • A thorough understanding of the various sports science disciplines and their impact on the training and performance of elite athletes.
  • An excellent understanding of scientific methods of trialling and validating assessment, monitoring and evaluation equipment and protocols.
  • Significant experience in the management of sport science support within high performance sport. This should include experience of working within 1st team professional football.
  • Extensive experience working as a practitioner within multi-discipline medical and sport science teams.
  • Significant experience liaising with football players and coaches to deliver successful sport science related programmes.
  • Experience in developing and implementing a continued professional development plan for sport science staff within a high-performance sport department.
  • Experience in coach and athlete education in high performance sport.
  • Significant experience in conducting scientifically underpinned assessment, monitoring, and evaluation procedures.
  • Experience of developing and sourcing world class sport science equipment.
  • Experience of using data management systems to ensure the secure and efficient storage of monitoring and evaluation data.
  • Experience of managing sport science budgets. 

Desirable

  • Experience of having worked within other professional sports.
  • Experience of working within teams qualified for the Champions League and Europa league.

Abilities/Skills/Knowledge

  • An excellent understanding of the various aspects of sport science that relate to the care and development of elite football players. 
  • A very good understanding of scientific methods of researching and developing assessment, monitoring, and evaluation protocols within an elite sport environment.
  • An understanding of the skills required across the clinical and practical aspects of sport science disciplines.
  • Ability to conduct and evaluate scientifically underpinned assessment and monitoring procedures with teams or individuals.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills that can motivate behavioural change to have a positive impact on performance.
  • Ability to develop productive relationships with other staff members, football players and their representatives.
  • Ability to manage high personal workloads and the high workloads of colleagues.
  • Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.

The FA – Content Operations Manager

Wembley Stadium
03 Nov, 2024

Contract

1 year, full-time

Job Description

  • PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT:  lead booking of production resources, ensuring all processes, rates and contingencies are clear and consistent, working alongside supporting agencies and communicating clearly with all external providers around production via call-sheets.
  • ACCREDITATION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT: Manage team accreditation requirements and be a central point for key organisations (UEFA/FIFA) and FA depts (broadcast, media ops and events) across matchdays and tournaments
  • MANAGING DOCUMENTATION: Ensure key documents are centralised, accessible and updated via Microsoft Sharepoint and relevant paperwork for rights and contracts are filed and managed alongside health and safety, permissions, and assistant supervisory guidelines for maximum clarity and accountability.
  • STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Work across our key brands as a central point of contact across high-profile calendar events and tournaments for the best way of managing resources against and ensuring clear roles and responsibilities, as well as briefing and debriefing.
  • BUDGET MANAGEMENT:  Management of multiple budget lines and processes, including leading regular stakeholder meetings, monitoring detailed month-by-month phased spending and developing improved processes for prompt onboarding, payments and reporting.
  • Executes additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group’s changing priorities.
  • Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and well-being can be maintained.
  • As part of The FA’s commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance

Experience

Knowledge:

  • Experience working in sports and/or with sports teams
  • Working with freelancers and external production companies
  • Strong contacts across production, mainly producers and camera operators

 

Experience:

  • Considerable experience of working in the media industry/sports teams
  • Handling complex production budgets
  • Working with important and high-profile stakeholders
  • Calm under pressure
  • Working with project management tools (Asana, Trello, Slack…etc)

 

Technical Skills:

  • Advanced experience with MS Excel, and other Microsoft Office products
  • Elevated level of numeracy and problem-solving
  • Attention to detail and proactivity
  • Project Management
  • Agency and freelancer management
  • Effective communication and relationship-management skills

Birmingham City Women – Videographer

St Andrews Stadium
31 Oct, 2024

Contract

Full-Time, Permanent

Job Description

Capture and edit high quality footage for the women’s team.

 

 

Aston Villa Girls Academy – U21’s Head Coach

Bodymoor Heath Training Ground
10 Nov, 2024

Contract

Full-Time (Permanent)

£34-37.5k PA depending on experience.

Job Description

In this role, you will provide strategic leadership and development of our U21 programme, helping both players and staff reach their full potential on and off the pitch. You will  be responsible for delivering high-quality coaching to the U21 programme – driving the tactical, technical, and personal growth of each player while guiding and mentoring staff to ensure alignment with the club’s high-performance plan. A typical day will involve leading high intensity training sessions, overseeing development and recruitment of the squad, collaborating with the multi-disciplinary team, and tailoring individual development plans. You will prepare the squad for matchday, implement the club’s playing philosophy, and review performance to fine-tune tactics. Your leadership will not only influence matchday success but also contribute to the long-term development of our Academy players and staff, creating the optimal environment for them to thrive.

Experience

We are looking for a driven, knowledgeable, and dynamic coach with a strong background in working with elite youth development players. You must hold a UEFA A licence (or be actively working towards it) with current FA Safeguarding and First Aid training certification. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a deep understanding of player development, tactical and technical coaching, with a strong record of delivering team success and individual development, ultimately building high-performance environments.  We are looking for someone who can inspire, guide and build relationships with a range of stakeholders.

This role will require you to work flexibility including matchday, evening and weekends and you will need a UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.

Chelsea Women – Creative Producer

Cobham
23 Oct, 2024

Contract

Full-Time (Permanent)

Job Description

Idea generation (25%)
• Produce and oversee all of Chelsea Women’s first team video content
• Work with the partnership team to disseminate (or help develop) briefs, turns these briefs into creatively valuable and commercially viable ideas
• Collaborate with the marketing and foundation teams to develop idea for video assets that support campaigns
• Pitch and develop new ideas that will engage Chelsea’s men’s fan base, whilst providing plenty of brand-friendly attribution for our partners
• Create decks, scripts, storyboards etc to communicate these ideas internally for sign-off
• Agree on KPIs and targets with the marketing team


Lead and execute video shoots (50%)
• Manage camera operator(s) at Cobham to create inspiring content from training and behind the scenes at Cobham
• Work with the production managers to plan and organise video shoots, primarily at the training ground in Cobham or the stadium
• Agree shot lists and timings with key stakeholders
• Lead video shoots in terms of set-up, directing talent, e.g. football players, as well as camera operators and production assistants
• Liaise with the Communications department and coaching staff for sign-off when required
• Ensure all ideas and output align with Chelsea’s brand, tone & style and upholds the club’s values

Oversee edit and post-production (25%)
• Brief edits and post-production eg motion graphics
• Manage the sign off process
• Liaise with the women’s social media team in terms of delivering social friendly assets
• Create assets that generate commercial value and are engaging for fans.
• Ensure the quality of output is both industry leading and consistent across club, social and partner video production.

Experience

• 5+ years’ experience, creating digital first content. Ideally in a range of roles (producer, director, editor, production management etc)
• Highly creative, collaborative and embody a growth mindset
• Proven track record of developing great creative ideas in terms of taking a brief, converting ideas into pitch decks/storyboards/scripts through to delivering high quality assets
• Strong communicator with the ability to quickly and clearly explain ideas to a range of stakeholders e.g. senior management, talent (football players) as well as the people making the videos
• Experience of working with talent e.g. football players, athletes, musicians, actors etc. in a high-pressure environment and under strict time pressures
• Proficient using Premier Pro video editing software
• Well-versed across social media platforms, with a strong interest in sport & entertainment, as well as being in touch with youth culture
• Worked across a range of video production output, from short form social edits to longer-form YouTube output, from adverts to branded content
• Experience in production management, for example, running production meetings, scheduling, budgeting and assigning roles and responsibilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, operates with gravitas and builds stakeholder trust with ease.
• An interest in the Women’s Super League and the Premier League