Senior Sport Physiotherapist

The role

Are you passionate about helping people move better, feel stronger, and perform at their best?

Join our expert team at University of Bristol Sport as a Senior Sport Physiotherapist, delivering high-quality care to a diverse population—from sedentary individuals to elite athletes.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sports Physiotherapist to join our dedicated team. In this exciting and varied role, you will provide comprehensive, evidence-based physiotherapy services to a diverse population, including university students, staff, and external clients. Your caseload will range from individuals with sedentary lifestyles to elite athletes competing at national and international levels.

What will you be doing?

You will play a key role in delivering specialist musculoskeletal and sports injury assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation, while contributing to injury prevention and performance improvement. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will help support the health, wellbeing, and active lifestyles of our community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality physiotherapy services tailored to the needs of a varied client base.
• Assess, diagnose, and manage a wide range of musculoskeletal and sports-related conditions.
• Design and implement individualised rehabilitation and performance programmes.
• Collaborate with coaches, strength and conditioning staff, and medical professionals.
• Contribute to the development of best practices and service improvement initiatives.

You should apply if

About you:

• HCPC and CSP registered Physiotherapist.
• Postgraduate qualifications in Sports Physiotherapy or a related field.
• Proven experience working with both general and sporting populations.
• Strong clinical reasoning, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, flexible, and collaborative approach to patient care.
• Experience working in a university or high-performance sport setting will be beneficial but not essential

Additional information

Work pattern: Part time (14 hours)

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Thursday 31st July.

For informal queries about the role, please contact Matt Birch on matt.birch@bristol.ac.uk.

Interviews are expected to take place on 29th August 2025.

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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