Athlete Health Performance Manager

Singapore Gymnastics (SG) is the national sports association for gymnastics in Singapore and aims to lead and support the continuous growth of SG’s affiliated clubs, schools, members, gymnasts, coaches, officials, and volunteers.

1.Vision

Gymnastics for Everyone - Enjoyment and Excellence

2.Mission

Successfully leading, promoting and developing Gymnastics as a sport and experience for all,while nurturing TeamSG athletes to podium finishes at world-class events

3.Value Statements / Guiding Principles (“PERFECT”)

Professionalism

Excellence

Respect

Fairness

Enjoyment

Community

Teamwork

Primary Purpose of the Role:
Singapore Gymnastics seeks an ambitious physiotherapist to assist the High Performance Team in implementing and delivering a highly functioning and visionary athlete centric monitoring system. This role carries responsibility around the primary physiotherapy support for athletes in the National Training Centre (NTC).

The primary purpose of this role is to support the High Performance Team by enhancing athlete performance through monitoring the health and wellbeing of athletes, coordinating the sports science and sports medical (SSSM) support team, implementing intervention mechanism to reduce injury and ensure maximisation of training hours for athletes in the high performance pathway at the National Training Centre, while overseeing the Injury Management Protocol and the ”Return to Training” programme.

There are four main purposes for monitoring athletes:
1. optimizing readiness,

2. ensuring proper prescription of stress and recovery (periodization),

3. reducing injury risk, and

4. monitoring safe and effective return to training and competition programme.

The Athlete Health Performance Manager will identify, support and develop a monitoring system that underpins a World Class services to the individual athletes in SG’s high performance pathway.

Athlete monitoring is standard practice for maximizing athlete performance, reducing injury risk, and optimizing competition readiness. For High Performance Programs, monitoring load-performance and load-injury relationships are essential for providing insight into how athletes are responding to stresses incurred during and outside of training and competition. Ultimately, how an athlete performs is impacted by the accumulation of stress and the efficacy of training.

Applicants should have demonstrable experience of working within a performance sport environment, and interacting effectively with high level athletes, coaches and service providers. You will be a dynamic individual, with first class administrative, numeric and communication skills. The ability to work seamlessly across a range of competing priorities is a further requirement of this role, as well as having clear understanding of performance pathways in Singapore. Applicants will be expected to work flexibly under mínimal supervision, plan/prioritise well and play a key role in a High Performance Sport culture of Singapore Gymnastics.

The Athlete Performance Manager will develop strong working relationships with Programme Managers, National Head Coaches, the National Coaches, Pathway Manager, National Youth Sports Institute (NYSI), Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) and any/all agencies/organisations who may enhance the service offered to individual athletes through support, advice, knowledge, programmes etc.

**Responsibilities**:
Leadership
- Openly share and distribute information which is relevant
- Promote and support SG programs, regulations and policies at all times
- Ensure the GM and relevant staff are briefed on key events, projects, and key issues
- Produce high quality and professional correspondence, documentation and reports
- Contribute to a positive organisational culture which is focused on delivering results and excellence in service provision

Physiotherapy
- Provide physiotherapy services to the NTC athletes with weekly on-site attendance at the gym during training sessions
- Attendance at all selection events
- Medical clearance of athletes prior to departure
- Travel with the teams to key identified events in the sports physiotherapist capacity

Athlete Monitoring
- Lead and manage the planning, development and delivery of critical programmes, activities and events to individual athletes around load management, injury recording, injury management and “Return to Training” programme in consultation with the High Performance Team
- Provide direction for the development and delivery of world class technical and strategic support services
- Research, analyse and report on national and international best practice in individual athlete performance management and monitoring
- Manage the yearly Functional Movement Tests of NTC athletes

Sport Enhancement Services
- Ensure the effective, efficient and economic delivery of all athlete performance services by connecting to the rest of the SSSM network.
- Grow, develop and maintain a network of contac