PERSON SUMMARY
The successful candidate will require a calm and flexible approach to their work with highly effective communication skills and an ability to develop professional relationships with the interdisciplinary team and coaches in order to influence positive change. The candidate should have a proven track record in supporting athletes and coaches to optimise performance, building athlete confidence through specialist knowledge and clinical excellence. ,Although Paralympic specific experience is desirable, we will consider those without providing there is a willingness to engage with the word leading professional development opportunities that the EIS has to offer.
MAIN TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
Work with the Head of Performance Support, Technical Lead Physiotherapist, EIS and national governing body (NGB) performance support team to improve performance through implementing, evaluating and developing physiotherapy services.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of athlete health strategies in British Para Table Tennis to optimise performance.
- Provide highly specialised musculoskeletal assessment, clinical reasoning and diagnostics for athletes, prioritising services aligned with performance and clinical requirements.
- Lead the design and management of highly specialised rehabilitation services in collaboration with the interdisciplinary athlete support team, coaches, and athletes to optimise athlete availability for training and competition.
- Develop innovative, performance-focussed, and evidence-based approaches to improve ‘return to performance’ outcomes for athletes
- Work independently at training and competition locations both nationally and internationally, making autonomous triage and primary care decisions and having accountability for immediate sport injury/trauma management and rehabilitation.
- Accountability for the planning and management of immediate emergency medical and trauma care situations in the training and competition environment domestically and overseas.
- Provide athlete health insight for the development of athlete classification profiles.
- Provide impairment specific knowledge and insight into the MDT to effectively support athlete performance plans.
- Ensure that the delivery of the physiotherapy services effectively meet their commitments to athletes, coaches and National Governing Bodies.
- Utilise the electronic medical records system (PDMS) for accurate record keeping and injury surveillance analysis to inform athlete health decision making.
- Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of delivery, working within professional standards and clinical guidelines.
- Comply with organisational and professional codes of conduct, standards, policies, and guidelines.
- Embed equality, diversity and inclusion values and principles in all ways of working and in the delivery of the Performance Planning Strategy.
- Contribute to knowledge development, aggregation and sharing across the organisation to support the development of world class physiotherapy services and the high-performance system #CollectiveBrilliance.
