Director of Sports Medicine Development and Activation

JOB PURPOSE

The Director of Sports Medicine Development and Activation provides strategic leadership for the development of QHC’s sports medicine portfolio. The role shapes the service model and operating concept across clinical care, rehabilitation, athlete health, performance, research and innovation, ensuring that the programme reflects QHC’s mandate, clinical standards and long-term strategic ambitions.

The role leads the coordinated development of the sports medicine programme from concept through implementation. This includes service and facility design, technical and operational input to strategic partnerships and scopes of work, procurement requirements, workforce planning and hiring, technology and equipment requirements, governance, budgets and the key approvals required to establish integrated, athlete-centred and sustainable services.

Working across executive, clinical and corporate leadership, the Director establishes priorities, integrates multidisciplinary workstreams and provides assurance on programme scope, quality, resources, risks, dependencies and delivery. The role represents sports medicine in internal and external forums, guides executive decision-making and ensures that partners, teams and enabling functions remain aligned with the approved sports medicine strategy and service objectives.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1.  Sports Medicine Strategy, Service Model and Programme Development

•    Lead the development of QHC’s sports medicine strategy and translate it into an integrated portfolio of clinical, rehabilitation, athlete-health, performance, research and innovation services, with clear priorities, intended outcomes, investment requirements and delivery sequencing.

•    Define and maintain the sports medicine service model and operating concept, including portfolio scope, target populations, service pathways, delivery channels, capacity assumptions, clinical and corporate interfaces, governance principles, decision rights and accountability arrangements.

•    Own the development and ongoing refinement of the sports medicine programme, converting strategy into approved service specifications, business and investment priorities, implementation plans, measurable objectives and executive decisions, while ensuring alignment with QHC’s mandate, clinical standards and long-term organisational ambitions.

2.  Clinical, Rehabilitation and Performance Service Development

•    Lead the development of an integrated clinical, rehabilitation, athlete-health and performance service portfolio, defining service scope, target populations, referral criteria, multidisciplinary pathways, standards of care, delivery requirements and intended athlete and patient outcomes.

•    Provide strategic oversight of multidisciplinary service and pathway design, bringing together sports medicine, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, performance science, imaging, diagnostics, nutrition, psychology and other specialist disciplines to deliver coordinated, evidence-based and athlete-centred care.