Join our team as a Physiotherapist and play a vital role in supporting performance athletes and programmes.
Your responsibilities will include providing crucial pitch-side cover for matches and training, as well as delivering clinic and gym-based rehab sessions on a 1-2-1 or group basis to our Student Performance Sports, TASS, and the Dual Career Programmes. You will be part of a dynamic and professional organisation at the forefront of sport, health, and fitness. We seek individuals who embody our values of inspiration, respect, integrity, excellence, flexibility, self-improvement, and collaboration.
The ideal candidate will bring a blend of expertise, passion for athlete development, and a commitment to creating an inclusive, supportive environment.
About the role
The Department of Sports Development and Recreation at the University of Bath manages and organises a range of activities under the University’s sports brand - Team Bath. The Department aspires to create a world-leading multi-sport environment delivering to elite athletes, staff, and students at the University and the local and regional community. Based in the inspiring Sports Training Village, the Department offers a wide range of high-quality sports activities, programmes, events, services, and facilities catering to all ages and abilities.
In addition, we are recognised by UK Sport as one of only 8 Elite Training Centres, providing the training base for around 250 international level athletes. This is an opportunity to become part of a professional and progressive organisation at the leading edge of sport, health, and fitness.
You should have:
- Experience in pitch-side or court-side physiotherapy support.
- Familiarity with injury surveillance systems and data analysis to monitor athlete health trends.
- Experience working within a university setting is advantageous but not essential.
Further information
This is a full-time role (36.5 hours), ideally delivered over 5 days, offering you an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in the world of sports and performance.
What we can offer you:
Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.