Technician Demonstrator Sport Rehabilitation and Massage

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Location: Cyncoed Campus

Package: Fixed term until 1st August 2025

Contractual hours: 37 

Job category/type: Technical

Job description

The opportunity

The opportunity exists for a suitably experienced candidate to contribute to support delivery and administration of sports rehabilitation and soft tissue therapy provision on the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. You will also be expected to support research activities and the supervision of student research project data collection and as appropriate. Completion of administrative duties and contribution to the enterprise activities of the School will be required. 

Qualified to undergraduate level you should have a proven understanding of sports rehabilitation theory and practice and the ability to teach theoretical and practical techniques. You should have experience of a clinic environment and be able to rehabilitate a breadth of sports injuries. 

You will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student experience. 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise laboratory work and processes undertaken by staff, students and visitors.
• Demonstrate practical techniques and processes and the operation of equipment in teaching rooms, specialist facilities to staff, students and visitors.
• Advise and support academic / research staff and students on the use and application of techniques, equipment and process associated with programmes of study and research and innovation activities.
• Support the delivery of practical and seminar sessions aligned to practical work and which have been planned by academic staff.
• Advise on the purchase of new equipment and required maintenance of existing equipment. Purchase replacement or new equipment and consumable items. Undertake budgetary control, in close liaison with discipline staff and SROM.

What we are looking for

• Degree in a relevant discipline including sports therapy / sport and exercise science / rehabilitation.
• A recognised qualification in sports massage.
• Experience and expertise with laboratory equipment including calibration procedures and minor maintenance.
• Experience of teaching and assessment
• Experience of appropriate computer hardware and software packages
• Experience of health and safety and producing associated documents
• Experience of delivery of sports rehabilitation and soft tissue therapy

Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?

In 2020, the University was named The Sunday Times ‘Welsh University of the Year 2021’; in 2021 it became the Times Higher Education ‘UK and Ireland University of the Year 2022’; and in 2022 it was ranked the top university in the UK in the People and Planet Green League.

In addition, the University offers highly competitive terms and conditions including:

• Annual leave of 35 days, plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days (pro rata if part time).
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous contributions.
• Flexible and remote working opportunities.
• Excellent family friendly policies.
• Award winning sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership, plus subsidised physiotherapy/complementary therapy/sports massage.
• Access to all library facilities.
• Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured.

If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Dr Jason Pedley, Senior Lecturer in Strength and Conditioning, at jpedley@cardiffmet.ac.uk.

Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.

The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.

Further information

Please visit our staff recruitment website for information about working for us, our culture, benefits, work-life balance and our career progression and development opportunities.

Manylion y swydd

Teitl y swydd: Technegydd Arddangoswr Tylino ac Adsefydlu Chwaraeon

Cyfeirnod y swydd: 23REQ0002855

Dyddiad cau ar gyfer ymgeisio: 09/08/2024

Lleoliad: Campws Cyncoed

Cyflog: £38,205 - £42,978 y flwyddyn

Pecyn: Cytundeb Cyfnod Penodol tan 01.08.2025

Oriau cytundebol: 37

Sail: Llawn Amser

Math/categori swydd: Technegol

Disgrifiad swydd

Y Cyfle

Mae cyfle’n bodoli i ymgeisydd sydd â phrofiad addas i gyfrannu at gefnogi cyflwyno a gweinyddu darpariaeth adsefydlu chwaraeon a therapi meinwe meddal ar raglenni israddedig ac ôl-raddedig yr Ysgol. Bydd disgwyl i chi hefyd gefnogi gweithgareddau ymchwil a goruchwylio gwaith casglu data prosiect ymchwil myfyrwyr ac fel y bo'n briodol. Bydd angen cyflawni dyletswyddau gweinyddol a chyfrannu at weithgareddau menter yr Ysgol. 

Wedi cymhwyso i lefel israddedig dylai fod gennych ddealltwriaeth cadarn o theori ac ymarfer adsefydlu chwaraeon a'r gallu i addysgu technegau damcaniaethol ac ymarferol. Dylai fod gennych brofiad o amgylchedd clinig a gallu adsefydlu ystod o anafiadau chwaraeon.

Byddwch yn weithiwr proffesiynol brwdfrydig a chyfeillgar gyda sgiliau cyfathrebu a rhyngbersonol rhagorol ynghyd ag ymrwymiad i ddarparu profiad myfyriwr rhagorol. 

Prif Ddyletswyddau a Chyfrifoldebau

• Goruchwylio gwaith labordy a phrosesau a wneir gan staff, myfyrwyr ac ymwelwyr.
• Arddangos technegau a phrosesau ymarferol a gweithrediad offer mewn ystafelloedd addysgu, cyfleusterau arbenigol i staff, myfyrwyr ac ymwelwyr.
• Cynghori a chefnogi staff a myfyrwyr academaidd / ymchwil ar ddefnyddio a chymhwyso technegau, offer a phroses sy'n gysylltiedig â rhaglenni astudio a gweithgareddau ymchwil ac arloesi.
• Cefnogi cyflwyno sesiynau ymarferol a seminar sy'n cyd-fynd â gwaith ymarferol ac sydd wedi'u cynllunio gan staff academaidd.
• Cynghori ar brynu offer newydd a chynnal a chadw angenrheidiol yr offer presennol. Prynu offer newydd gan gynnwys offer i gymryd lle offer presennol a nwyddau traul. Ymgymryd â rheolaeth gyllidebol, mewn cysylltiad agos â staff disgyblaeth a SROM.

Beth rydym yn chwilio amdano

• Gradd mewn disgyblaeth berthnasol gan gynnwys therapi chwaraeon / chwaraeon a gwyddor ymarfer corff / adsefydlu
• Cymhwyster cydnabyddedig mewn Tylino Chwaraeon
• Profiad ac arbenigedd gydag offer labordy gan gynnwys gweithdrefnau graddnodi a mân waith cynnal a chadw
• Profiad o addysgu ac asesu
• Profiad o becynnau caledwedd a meddalwedd cyfrifiadurol priodol
• Profiad o iechyd a diogelwch a chynhyrchu dogfennau cysylltiedig
• Profiad o ddarparu therapi adsefydlu chwaraeon a meinwe meddal

Pam ymuno â Phrifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd?

Yn 2020 cafodd y Brifysgol ein henwi’n 'Brifysgol y Flwyddyn yng Nghymru 2021' gan The Sunday Times; yn 2021 cawsom ein henwi’n 'Brifysgol y Flwyddyn y DU ac Iwerddon 2022' gan y Times Higher Education ac yn 2022 cawsom ein rhestru fel y brifysgol orau yn y DU am gynaliadwyedd yng Nghynghrair Werdd People and Planet.

Yn ogystal, mae'r Brifysgol yn cynnig telerau ac amodau cystadleuol iawn gan gynnwys:

• Gwyliau blynyddol o 35 diwrnod, ynghyd â 12 diwrnod gŵyl banc / consesiwn (pro rata os yw'n rhan amser)
• Aelodaeth o'r Cynllun Pensiwn Llywodraeth Leol gyda chyfraniadau hael
• Cyfleoedd gweithio hyblyg ac o bell
• Polisïau rhagorol sy’n ystyriol o deuluoedd.
• Cyfleusterau chwaraeon a ffitrwydd arobryn gydag aelodaeth â chymhorthdal, ynghyd â ffisiotherapi/therapi cyflenwol/tylino chwaraeon â chymhorthdal
• Mynediad i holl gyfleusterau'r llyfrgell
• Mynediad am ddim i deuluoedd at ein darparwr cymorth lles arbenigol annibynnol, Sicrwydd Iechyd.

Os hoffech siarad â ni am y cyfle hwn, cysylltwch â Dr Jason Pedley, Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Cryfder a Chyflyru, yn jpedley@cardiffmet.ac.uk.

Os bydd nifer fawr o geisiadau’n dod i law, efallai y bydd angen inni gau'r swydd wag hon yn gynnar. Felly, rydym yn eich annog i ymgeisio cyn gynted â phosibl.

Mae'r Brifysgol yn ymroddedig i greu diwylliant hynod gynhwysol. Rydym yn cynnig trefniadau gweithio hyblyg a chyfeillgar i deuluoedd ac amrywiaeth o rwydweithiau staff, fforymau a digwyddiadau i gefnogi a datblygu ein pobl. Rydym yn croesawu ceisiadau gan y rheiny sydd heb gynrychiolaeth ddigonol yn y sector addysg uwch yn draddodiadol.

Rhagor o wybodaeth

Darllenwch ewch i'n gwefan recriwtio staff i gael gwybodaeth am weithio inni, ein diwylliant, buddion, cydbwysedd rhwng bywyd a gwaith a'n cyfleoedd ar gyfer camu ymlaen yn eich gyrfa a datblygu.