Senior Women Therapist
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September 24, 2024
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Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London.
Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.
In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.
The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.
Tottenham Hotspur has:
JOB PURPOSE
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
MAIN JOB REQUIREMENTS AND PERSON SPECIFICATION
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Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:
Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.
In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.
The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.
Tottenham Hotspur has:
- A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
- A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
- Commercial partnerships with globally recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company.
- A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040.
- An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health, and social inclusion programmes.
JOB PURPOSE
- To provide high quality assessment, treatment and rehabilitation skills to aid players perform at their best
- Support Medical Team with day-to-day responsibilities
- To maximize player availability for the Head coach in preparing players daily for training
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide daily medical diagnosis, treatment and rehab
- Matchday cover as required (Sundays mostly)
- To create successful and professional relationships with staff whilst maintaining professional distance from playing staff at all times
- Comfortable working with the full spectrum of injuries you would expect in women’s high-performance environment
- Play an active role in the delivery of recovery sessions following games
- Keep accurate medical records using a computerised notes system
- Attended daily medical meetings and contribute effectively with the wider team
- Promote anti-doping policies in line with WADA
MAIN JOB REQUIREMENTS AND PERSON SPECIFICATION
Specific Experience:
- A BSc in Sports Therapy or Sport Rehabilitation
- Or a BSc or MSc degree level qualification in Physiotherapy
- BASRaT or MSST affiliation/member
- Or CSP and HCPC Registered
- An extensive and up to date CPD portfolio.
- Current ITMIFF or ATMMiF qualification desirable
Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:
- Team player who is hard working and supportive of colleagues
- Thinks ahead and generates innovative ideas
- Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
- Excellent communication skills with both athletes and other members of staff
- To facilitate an environment in which our athletes can prepare for the demands of training and playing at an elite level
- experience of providing elite therapy services based on the principals of human performance and how they relate to clinical sports medicine
- Highly motivated and engaged in their role, with the ability to generate ideas independently and then discuss and implement within a group dynamic.
- Strong rehabilitation skills to take athletes from the plinth to the pitch
- Positive, reliable and honest
- Values and respects others, builds relationships and collaborates
- Loyal and committed
- Good organisation skills
- Display the highest level of confidentiality
- Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility
- Passionate to be part of developing the next generation of Tottenham Hotspur Players and a demonstrable interest in the physical development of elite academy footballers.
- Committed, reliable and punctual
Skills
- Management
- Planning
- Methodical
