AFC Bournemouth
Women's Team Medical and Peformance Manager

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Application Deadline: 7 October 2026
Department: AFC Bournemouth Women
Location: AFC Bournemouth Performance Centre, Wimborne
Description
AFC Bournemouth Women are looking to recruit a Medical and Performance Manager to coordinate the effective delivery of Medical & Performance services across the First Team and Development Squad. Reporting to both the Director of Medical and Performance and Head of Women’s Football, this role acts as a central point of coordination between medical, rehabilitation, physical performance, and wider player-support practitioners, helping ensure clear communication, effective processes, and consistent standards across the programme. The role supports an integrated multidisciplinary approach that promotes player health, availability, development, and performance, while enabling individual practitioners to focus on delivering high-quality support within their respective areas of expertise.
WOMEN’S TEAM VALUES
- Professionalism: Always acting with integrity and respect for the badge in a competent and reliable manner.
- Togetherness: Working collaboratively through high levels of communication in a manner that supports an environment where everyone feels included, respected, and valued.
- Opportunity: Providing fair and equitable chances to all individuals by encouraging a growth mindset through empowering the natural abilities of others in service of the overall mission.
- Team First: Prioritising the team beyond personal or individual interests.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the day-to-day Medical & Performance provision across the Women's First Team and Development Squad.
- Act as the central communication point between Medical & Performance practitioners, football staff, and the wider Club.
- Coordinate regular multidisciplinary meetings, ensuring clear information sharing, agreed actions, and appropriate follow-up.
- Support effective planning and integration of medical, rehabilitation, physical performance, and player-support services.
- Ensure appropriate processes are in place for player availability, screening, rehabilitation, referrals, appointments, and return-to-play coordination.
- Support consistent documentation, professional standards, and governance across the programme, escalating matters where appropriate.
- Coordinate player medical and performance processes associated with recruitment and signing, in collaboration with relevant practitioners and Club leadership.
- Work with the Director of Medical & Performance and wider AFCB Medical & Performance department to align appropriate systems, standards, and best practice.
- Support the organisation of equipment, facilities, technology, and external services required for effective delivery.
- Foster an integrated and collaborative environment in which practitioners are enabled to focus on their professional responsibilities and players receive coordinated support.
- Depending on experience and organisational requirements, provide appropriate coordination, supervision, and/or line-management support to members of the Women's Medical & Performance team.
- As a member of staff, ensure in all matters you follow and actively promote the club’s mental health policies and practices to ensure an open, non-judgmental, and inclusive environment for everyone engaged with the club.
- As a member of staff, ensure that you adhere to the club’s safeguarding policies and procedures and are committed to our safeguarding values, creating a safe and positive environment for all those who interact with the club.
- Obligation to adhere to the club’s health and safety policy and procedures.
- Responsibility to comply with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and all related Company policies, taking reasonable care for their own safety and that of others, reporting hazards or incidents, following safe systems of work, and co-operating with all training and emergency procedures.
- As a member of staff, ensure in all matters you follow and actively promote the club’s equality policies and practices to ensure a welcoming, safe, and inclusive environment for everyone engaged with the club.
- The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.
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Essential
- Degree in at least one relevant medical or performance discipline, which may include medicine, physiotherapy, sports therapy, rehabilitation, sport science, strength and conditioning, psychology, wellbeing, or a related field.
- Relevant professional registration, accreditation, or membership appropriate to the candidate’s primary discipline.
- Experience working within elite football or a comparable high-performance sporting environment.
- Safeguarding and appropriate DBS clearance.
- Strong understanding of professional boundaries, clinical governance, confidentiality, safeguarding, and duty of care.


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Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant medical, performance, psychology, wellbeing, leadership, or management discipline.
- Knowledge of relevant FA, WNL, and WSL medical and performance support requirements.
- Experience working within Women’s National or Super Leagues.
- Experience leading, managing, or coordinating a multidisciplinary medical and performance team.
- UK Anti-Doping Introduction to Clean Sport certificate, or willingness to complete.
Key Competencies
- Ability to coordinate people and processes effectively within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Strong organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively in a dynamic environment.
- High level of written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Previous experience of line management or multidisciplinary team leadership.
Benefits
- Free onsite parking.
- Season ticket and allocation of complimentary/purchased tickets (subject to availability).
- Subsidised lunches and complimentary healthy snacks throughout the day.
- Discounts at the club Superstore.
- Access to Health Cash Plan with Simplyhealth.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Contribution towards eye tests and glasses.
- Discounts and benefits from partners and local businesses.
- Club pension & Life Assurance Scheme.
- Paid parental leave (bank of five days per year).
- Club events or other social events throughout the year run by our club social team.
- Paid volunteer opportunities (2 days per year).
- Paid day’s leave on your birthday.
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