Job Description /
Job Title: / Team Physiotherapist,Edinburgh Rugby / Team: / High Performance Rugby
Reports to: / Clinical Manager, Edinburgh Rugby / Budget Holder: / No
Direct reports: / None / Work Pattern: / Full Time, Permanent
Location: / Edinburgh and with the team as required / Date of JD Completion: / September 2013
Job Purpose:
To assist the Edinburgh Rugby Medical Manager in the provision of high quality physiotherapy care to Edinburgh Rugby. To support and work with the Pro-Team RehabilitationPhysiotherapist in providing high quality physiotherapy services to all players in the Team as necessary, and deputise for the Medical Manager in their absence.
To provide high quality physiotherapy services as required to the Performance teams of Scottish Rugby Union upon selection and when able.
Key Accountabilities: / Associated
Competencies:
To assess, diagnose and treat players’ musculoskeletal injuries through excellent clinical reasoning, skill use, team work and individual directed learning where necessary. / Personal Accountability
Provide guidance to, and implement preventative care programmes for players and coaches, including player through-season profiling for Injury Prevention. / Facilitate Change
Leading Others
To advise, liaise and work closely with the Edinburgh Rugby Medical Manager and Pro-Team Coaches, and Scottish Rugby Medical and S&C Teams regarding player injury status and prognosis, in accordance with players’ confidentiality agreement, to provide the highest quality care to injured players, including completion of online Injury Reports. / Team working
Planning and Organising
Effective Communication
To maintain, and store securely, confidential medical and physiotherapy records and information (including player injuries, summaries of on-field assessments and treatments, off field treatment and recommendations for continuing care and rehabilitation on appropriate paperwork) on behalf of Scottish Rugby with regards to the Core Standards of Physiotherapy Practice (CSP) and Scottish Rugby Policy. / Personal Accountability
To adhere to, and uphold, all Scottish Rugby Policies relevant to this post whilst advocating highest Professional Standards and seeking these at all times, in accordance with your professional registration as a Chartered Physiotherapist. / Personal Accountability
To liaise with national, regional and club medical colleagues to ensure ongoing continuity of care regarding injury issues related to training, play and return to play when the player is training off-site, or in your absence. / Team Working
Effective Communication
Planning and Organising
To develop individual rehabilitation programmes which incorporate the relevant level of support and advice to facilitate the optimum recovery from injury / Planning and Organising
Leading Others
Flexibility
To provide on-pitch and pitch-side Physiotherapy and Advanced Trauma/First Aid care for all/any Edinburgh Rugby Players during relevant matches, within the rules of the Tournament in which the match occurs, to advise of suitability to continue to play or need for removal from play in the most appropriate manner whilst facilitating either/both. / Team Working
Effective Communication
Flexibility
To ensure confidentiality of medical information in accordance with details specified in each player’s Confidentiality Agreement Consent Form, following Professional Standards for Data Protection and Confidentiality by the CSP and HPC. / Personal Accountability
Effective Communication
To partake in any Scottish Rugby-involved Research studies of your player group, as guided by the Head of Performance Medical or Medical Manager, Edinburgh Rugby. / Planning and Organising
Facilitate Change
To maintain appropriate Professional Indemnity Insurance, either from the CSP or independently. / Personal Accountability
To work with the Team Doctor to assess players fitness, including pre-contract medical assessments. / Team Working
To manage any/all Physiotherapy equipment with care, and use within Health and Safety guidelines or best practice. / Personal Accountability
To actively participate in Scottish Rugby and external Continuing Professional Development opportunities to strive for achieving and promoting excellence of care for your players. / Personal Accountability
Facilitating Change
To assist the other Edinburgh RugbyTeam Physiotherapists in the management and packing of medical supplies and stock for training and matches for Edinburgh Rugby. / Planning and Organising
Flexibility
To provide the High Performance Database Co-ordinator (or similar) with appropriate records of player injuries and their treatment, including recommendations for continuing care and rehabilitation. / Effective Communication
To deputise for the Medical Manager in their absence, and support them in achieving team goals such as CPD, time management, team-working and standards of care. / Personal Accountability
To offer and facilitate direct mentoring opportunities for suitable students at Edinburgh Rugby as is beneficial to Scottish Rugby in its relationships with local Universities or other external bodies. / Leading Others
To ensure confidentiality of medical information in accordance with details specified in each player’s Confidentiality Agreement Consent Form / Personal Accountability
To work on behalf of the Edinburgh Rugby Medical Team as co-ordinator/facilitator for their participation in the Scottish Rugby Physiotherapy In-service programme / Leading Others
Planning and Organisation
Scottish Rugby
Job Description /
Key Dimensions:
Number and Level of staff: / None, however, deputizes in the Medical Manager’s absence.
Financial Responsibility: / Working within the constraints of the established medical budgets in the Medical Manager’s absence.
Physical Resource Responsibility: / Responsible for the gathering and transportation of medical stock for the Edinburgh Rugby squad.
Responsible for the creation and storage of appropriate physiotherapy/medical records in line with Scottish Rugby and professional governing body standards.
Working Environment: / The management aspect of this post involves mostly desk work.
The clinical aspect of this post involves significant periods of direct provision of Physiotherapy indoors and outdoors, pitch-side and on-pitch work in front of large crowds, on television and in foreign, hotel, stadia, and other related environments.
This can involve exposure to any/all weather including snow, ice, rain, sunshine, humidity, etc, and related issues such as biting insects accordingly. This post is also required to deal with exposure to, and the management of, hazardous substances such as body fluids (blood, saliva, infectious matter/clinical waste) through wound management and treatment, and the safe application and delivery of electrophysical agents such as therapeutic ultrasound and TENS as part of the role of Physiotherapists.
Frequent Long distance international and domestic travel is a component of this post.
Physical aspects of role: / The management of medical stock for the Edinburgh Rugbyteam, including lifting and moving, storing, packing into transportable containers in conjunction with the Lead Physiotherapist.
The clinical aspect of this role requires standing pitch-side in attendance of training, running into the field of play or training as quickly as possible, the manual stabilisation and evacuation (lifting) of players from the field of training/play when required. This also requires the application on a daily basis of Physical Massage, Mobilisation and Manipulation techniques to parts of the human body, which can entail maximal effort in supporting/applying such treatments, and the actual demonstration of exercise technique involved in rehabilitation programmes.
Impact on public image, business success & viability / Contributes to the Physiotherapy Service to the Edinburgh Rugbyteam and therefore contributes significantly to the success of this team within Scottish Rugby.
The post-holder is directly responsible for the health and fitness of the members of the Edinburgh RugbyTeam. This post requires a Chartered Physiotherapist who must accordingly carry their own Professional Indemnity Insurance in case of any medicolegal issue arising from the Physiotherapy role being undertaken.
There is direct high profile public scrutiny of this posts role with the Edinburgh RugbyTeam through large public crowds and television coverage, and through liaison with the Edinburgh Medical and Media Officers is responsible for the release of suitable confidential medical information into the public domain.
Key Internal and External Contacts:
- EdinburghMedical Manager and Rehabilitation Physiotherapists
- Pro Team Coaches
- Pro Team Players
- Edinburgh Strength and Conditioning Staff
- Edinburgh Medical and Management Staff
- Head of Performance Medical, Scottish Rugby
- Representative Scottish Rugby Medical Teams
- Scottish Rugby Pro-draft Club Physiotherapists
- Edinburgh Rugby EDP Physiotherapist
Authorities and Limitations:
- Responsible for upholding personal Physiotherapy Professional Standards on behalf of Edinburgh Rugby.
- Authority to determine player fitness to train/play rugby in conjunction with the Edinburgh Physiotherapy team.
- Responsible for implementing the Scottish Rugby procedure for the physiotherapy aspect of pre-contractual medical assessment of Edinburgh players in conjunction with the Edinburgh Medical Officer.
- Deputize for the Medical Manager in their absence.
Problem Solving:
- Determining the limitations due to injury, if any, on a player regarding training with the Edinburgh Rugby squad.
- Liaising with Medical Managerof Edinburgh Rugby regarding player injury/illness status.
Scottish Rugby
Person Specification /
Factor / Essential / Desirable
Qualifications and Attainments: /
- 5+ years of practising as a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
- HPC Registered Physiotherapist
- Membership of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Must be able to achieve and maintain a current pitch-side first aid certificate issued by recognised body (assisted by Scottish Rugby to do so if not pre-existing)
- Accredited Membership of Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Post Graduate qualification in either;
-musculo-skeletal/ manual therapy or similar
Knowledge and Experience: /
- Experience of implementing and delivering musculoskeletal treatment and sports-related rehabilitation programmes to patients.
- Notable experience of working or volunteering in amateur or professional sport
- Track record of educating players, coaches and other relevant groups
- Strong Manual Therapy and Rehabilitation skills, and clinical reasoning
- Significant experience of working with high performance athletes and coaches, ideally in a professional environment
- IT skills and experience
- Experience of leading others
Competencies: /
- Effective Communication
- Building Relationships
- Planning and Organising
- Team working
- Personal Accountability
- Leading Others
- Flexibility
Additional Requirements: /
- Demonstrates continuing professional development
- Willing & able to work unsociable hours including weekend & evening working
- Satisfactory Disclosure Scotland check
- Ability to travel abroad to games or tournaments
- Maintaining own Professional Indemnity Insurance
- Driving Licence