Clinical Director of Football Medicine (Part Time)

The University of Bath is seeking to appoint a Clinical Director to lead on all clinical aspects of our MSc in Football Medicine, which has been developed and launched in association with FiFA. 

We are looking for a Sport and Exercise Medicine specialist with an established track record of training and delivery of postgraduate clinical education, as well as clinical expertise in football. 

The MSc in Football Medicine sits alongside our long-established successful online MSc programmes in Sport & Exercise Medicine and Sports Physiotherapy. The programmes combine online learning with residential teaching weeks and are specifically designed to accommodate the professional development needs of practicing doctors and physiotherapists with an interest in sport and exercise. 

These programmes are established within the PG education landscape and are well respected for their academic rigour and strong emphasis on reflective practice. The MSc Football Medicine draws on links with FiFA to ensure it is internationally relevant and keeps pace with changes in the field; it is intended that one of the residential teaching weeks on the course will take place in Bath, and the other in Zurich.

Working alongside the Clinical Director of the Sport & Exercise Medicine programme, the successful applicant will have responsibility for the coordination of clinical teaching relevant to football medicine during residential teaching weeks, along with an oversight of the clinical content of the online academic units that relate to football medicine. The teaching responsibilities will be centred around clinical examination skills and case management, career development and evidence-based practice. 

This is role is offered on a 7.3 hours per week (0.2 FTE) permanent basis. As this role requires you to lead on all clinical and professional practice aspects of our MSc in Football Medicine, which is a specialist course for medical doctors, we require you to be a licensed and practicing medical doctor.

Initial enquiries should be directed to Dr Carly McKay (Academic Director of Studies; [email protected]) or Dr Polly McGuigan (Head of Department for Health; [email protected]). 

This role is being advertised alongside the Clinical Director of Sport and Exercise Medicine and for both of these roles we will consider applications from candidates interested in undertaking one or both of the Clinical Director positions in relation to the job description and person specifications for the roles. Please see link to role here https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/CH11186

The Department for Health has a strong international reputation for delivering leading multi and inter-disciplinary teaching and research across a broad range of topics in health, exercise and sport. We are currently ranked 7th in the International QS rankings for sport-related subjects and 98% of our research in sport and exercise sciences, leisure and tourism was considered world-leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework exercise.

Further details of our Department teaching and research activities can be found at https://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/department-for-health/  

We aim to be an inclusive 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 our teams. 

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