Scottish Rugby
Job Description
Job Title:
Team Physiotherapist,
Scotland 7s
Team:
High Performance Rugby
Reports to:
Clinical Manager, Scotland 7s
Direct reports:
None
Budget Holder:
Work Pattern:
No
Part-time, Fixed Term
Location:
Ravenscraig, and Murrayfield,
and with the team as required
Date of JD
Completion:
January 2014
Job Purpose:
To assist the Scotland 7s Clinical Manager in the provision of high quality physiotherapy care to Scotland 7s. To
deputise for the Clinical Manager in their absence or with squad players not on Tour.
To provide high quality physiotherapy services as required to the Performance teams of Scottish Rugby 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 Scotland 7s Clinical Manager and Pro-Team Team working
Coaches, and Scottish Rugby Medical and S&C Teams regarding player injury status
Planning and Organising
and prognosis, in accordance with players’ confidentiality agreement, to provide the
highest quality care to injured players, including completion of online Injury Reports. 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.
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.
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.
Personal Accountability
Personal Accountability
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 Scotland 7s Players during relevant matches to which you are asked
to cover, 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.
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.
To partake in any Scottish Rugby-involved Research studies of your player group, as
guided by the Head of Performance Medical or Clinical Manager, Scotland 7s.
To maintain appropriate Professional Indemnity Insurance, either from the CSP or
independently.
To work with the Squad Doctor to assess players fitness, including pre-contract
medical assessments when requested.
To manage any/all Physiotherapy equipment with care, and use within Health and
Safety guidelines or best practice.
To actively participate in Scottish Rugby and external Continuing Professional
Development opportunities to strive for achieving and promoting excellence of care
for your players.
To assist in the management and packing of medical supplies and stock for training
and matches for Scotland 7s.
Team Working
Effective Communication
Flexibility
Personal Accountability
Effective Communication
Planning and Organising
Facilitate Change
Personal Accountability
Team Working
Personal Accountability
Personal Accountability
Facilitating Change
Planning and Organising
Flexibility
To provide the High Performance Database Co-ordinator (or similar) with appropriate Effective Communication
records of player injuries and their treatment, including recommendations for
continuing care and rehabilitation.
To deputise for the Clinical 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
Scotland 7s as is beneficial to Scottish Rugby in its relationships with local
Universities or other external bodies.
Leading Others
To work on behalf of the Scotland 7s 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 Clinical Manager’s absence.
Financial
Responsibility:
Working within the constraints of the established medical budgets in the Clinical
Manager’s absence.
Physical Resource
Responsibility:
Responsible for the gathering and transportation of medical stock for the Scotland 7s
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.
Long distance international and domestic travel may be a component of this post.
Physical aspects of
role:
The management of medical stock for the Scotland 7s team, 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 Scotland 7s team 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
Scotland 7s Team. 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 Scotland 7s Team
through large public crowds and television coverage, and through liaison with the
Scotland 7s Medical and Media Officers is responsible for the release of suitable
confidential medical information into the public domain.
Key Internal and External Contacts:

Scotland 7s Clinical Manager

Scotland 7s Coaches

Pro Team Players

Scotland 7s Strength and Conditioning Staff

Scotland 7s Medical and Management Staff

Head of Performance Medical, Scottish Rugby

Representative Scottish Rugby Medical Teams
 Scottish Rugby Pro-draft Club Physiotherapists
Authorities and Limitations:

Responsible for upholding personal Physiotherapy Professional Standards on behalf of Scotland 7s.

Authority to determine player fitness to train/play rugby in conjunction with the Scotland 7s Performance
team.

Responsible for implementing the Scottish Rugby procedure for the physiotherapy aspect of precontractual medical assessment of Scotland 7s players in conjunction with the Scotland 7s Medical Officer.
 Deputize for the Clinical Manager in their absence.
Problem Solving:

Determining the limitations due to injury, if any, on a player regarding training with the Scotland 7s squad.

Liaising with Clinical Manager of Scotland 7s regarding player injury/illness status.
Scottish Rugby
Person Specification
Factor
Qualifications and
Attainments:
Knowledge and
Experience:
Essential
Desirable
 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;
- sports physiotherapy or
rehabilitation
- musculo-skeletal/
manual therapy or
similar
 Experience of implementing and delivering
musculoskeletal treatment and sports-related
rehabilitation programmes to patients.
 Significant experience of
working with high
performance athletes and
coaches, ideally in a
 Notable experience of working or volunteering
professional environment
in amateur or professional sport
 IT skills and experience
 Track record of educating players, coaches
and other relevant groups
 Experience of leading others
 Strong Manual Therapy and Rehabilitation
skills, and clinical reasoning
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