Southampton Football Club
Sports Therapist (PGA Academy & Womens First Team)
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Location: Staplewood Campus
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Criminal Record Check: DBS Enhanced with Childs Barraged List
What is the role?
We are looking for an ambitious and highly motivated Sports Therapist to lead the medical provision for our U21 Professional Game Academy (PGA) squad while providing integrated support to the Women’s First Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high-performance football environment, playing a key role in player welfare, injury management, rehabilitation, and performance optimisation.
You will work closely with coaches, sports scientists, physiotherapists, and performance staff to ensure players are physically prepared to train, compete, and progress successfully through the player pathway.
What will you be doing?
As Sports Therapist, you will be responsible for delivering outstanding medical support to the U21 squad, overseeing injury prevention, assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and return-to-play programmes. You will also support the Women’s First Team medical provision as required, helping to maintain high standards of care across the club.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the development of players from academy through to first-team level, ensuring continuity of medical care and supporting optimal performance.
Is this you?
You are an experienced Sports Therapist with a passion for elite sport and player development. You thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and have excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills. You enjoy working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and are committed to delivering exceptional standards of player care, welfare and performance support.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Degree in Sports Therapy and membership/accreditation with the relevant professional body (e.g. The Society of Sports Therapists).
- Proven experience working in an elite or high-performance sporting environment.
- Experience assessing, diagnosing, treating and rehabilitating musculoskeletal injuries.
- Experience delivering pitch-side emergency aid and trauma management.
- Experience designing and implementing injury prevention and return-to-play programmes.
- Experience working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Strong understanding of athlete welfare, safeguarding and professional standards in sport.
- Experience maintaining accurate and confidential medical records.
- Current Professional Indemnity Insurance.
- UKAD Clean Sport certification, ITMMiF qualification, FA Safeguarding Certificate and Enhanced DBS.
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Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience within professional football, particularly a Women’s Super League (WSL) or Academy environment.
- Experience supporting athletes across academy, U21 and first-team pathways.
- Knowledge of female athlete health and performance.
- Experience using athlete management systems and electronic medical record platforms.
- Additional qualifications in Strength & Conditioning, Sports Massage, Soft Tissue Therapy or Rehabilitation.
How this benefits you…
If you are successful, you can look forward to:
- Access to 2 free match tickets for every home league game
- Access to our staff Health & Wellbeing initiatives (Mental & Physical Health).
- Discounted Southampton Football Club merchandise.
- 25 days’ holiday per year excluding bank holidays plus your birthday off each year.
- Contributory Pension Scheme.
- Worldwide Travel Insurance for you and your family.
- Learning & Development opportunities - supporting you to develop your potential and achieve in your career.
- Free onsite parking.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Collaborative & inclusive working culture.
How can I apply?
Just click on the apply button, enter your details and answer a quick pre-screening questionnaire, then attach your CV. The closing date for this role is 30 July 2026.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if a high volume of applicants are received.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and we expect everyone to share this commitment.
You will be required to adhere to all relevant policies and uphold the Club’s commitment to safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk and to ensure that Southampton Football Club is free from discrimination and harassment. The post holder will demonstrate a strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, supporting the organisation’s strategic aims to remove barriers and address inequality.
You will play an active role in promoting an inclusive, discrimination-free environment that ensures fair access to opportunities and resources. This includes fostering a culture of dignity, respect, and belonging where everyone is empowered to contribute, perform, and reach their full potential.
About Us
POTENTIAL INTO EXCELLENCE
Southampton Football Club is part of St. Mary’s Football Group, which also includes the affiliated registered charity – the Saints Foundation. We look for people with integrity, compassion and support for those around them; people who take pride in what they do with an honest approach, who embrace a challenge while also being accountable for their decisions; people who have the energy and passion to bring an innovative approach to their role and strive to be different from the rest; people with the aspiration to lead the way and become an example to others.
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Within the walls of St. Mary’s Stadium, Staplewood Campus, the Bath Academy and our other sites and development centers across the South of England, you’ll be given the platform to work in a vibrant, intelligent and challenging environment with the potential to develop and become the best at what you do.
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Southampton Football Club promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have the Disability Confident Award, which we pride ourselves on with regard to the commitment to employing disabled people and judging people on their abilities alone.
We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview. We make a commitment to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and to consider them on their abilities.
Southampton Football Club is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Southampton Football Club recognises that the safety and protection of those children and young people in day to day contact with the Club is paramount. We are committed to creating a safe culture for all. As such, you may be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service and prior to taking up any role.
Southampton Football Club is committed to protecting the privacy and security of every applicant’s personal information. Please see our Recruitment Privacy Notice and Group Privacy & Data Protection Policy on our main careers page for further information.
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