Department: Women’s Academy Department
Hours of work: 35 hours per week (flexible working hours including afternoons, evenings & weekends)
Contract Type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract until 30 June 2023
Salary: £24,000 - £26,000 per annum dependent on experience
Location: Bodymoor Heath Training Ground
Closing Date: Wednesday 15 June 2022
Interviews: Tuesday 5 July and Thursday 7 July 2022
1. The Department
Our Aston Villa Women's Football Team and pathway has grown significantly over the last 3 seasons. To support this growth, we are now focusing our efforts to ensure our Women's Academy and Girl's Regional Talent Club have the right people in the right roles to help us in delivering our ambitious plans for nurturing, encouraging and developing talent within our Women and Girls youth structure.
2. The Role
This post will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of all aspects of Sports Therapy / Physiotherapy services to the Women’s Academy and Regional Talent Club (RTC) players, in line with the Club’s injury reduction and performance enhancement philosophy.
You will deliver individualised player development, screening and injury reduction strategies to manage injury risk and enhance individual and team performance, in collaboration with the wider interdisciplinary team, ensuring effective long-term athletic development. You will also ensure that a multidisciplinary approach is taken to player management, working with the interdisciplinary team to improve and extend the evidence based medical provision and rehabilitation practices employed by the women’s club.
The postholder will lead the design, implementation and effectiveness of athlete monitoring strategies and injury surveillance systems to objectively quantify player readiness to train and minimise injury risk. Delivery of prehab and rehab programmes and maintaining comprehensive player medical records will be an essential part of this role, via the electronic medical notes system WPS.
For further information please see the Role Profile.
3. The Person
The successful postholder must hold a BSc (Hons) in Sports Therapy / Physiotherapy (minimum 2:1), in addition to membership to the Society of Sports Therapists (SST) or registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). You will have extensive experience of working within a professional team sport, and in the provision of Sports Therapist / Physiotherapy services to high performance elite athletes. You should be experienced in player profiling, alongside developing, and delivering strategies to manage injury risk and optimise performance. Extensive knowledge of applied functional anatomy including demonstration of expert clinical reasoning skills is also required for this post.
As part of your application, please ensure you upload your CV and Cover Letter.
Right to Close Vacancy Posting Early
The Club reserves the right to close any advertised vacancies earlier than the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received.
Equality Statement
Aston Villa Football Club celebrates the diversity of its Club and embrace equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and fully support The FAs Football Leadership Diversity Code.
We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, sex and religion or belief.
Safeguarding Statement
Aston Villa Football Club is fully committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk across our Club. As such, we adhere to Safer Recruitment processes and for some roles a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service may be required prior to starting in a role at the Club. For more information, please see Aston Villa Football Club | The official club website | AVFC - Safeguarding