Chief Medical Officer

The FA are looking for a Chief Medical Officer to deliver strategic medical leadership and clinical governance across England teams, ensuring the highest standards of medical governance and clinical practice, and provide guidance/standards to medical practitioners across our Men’s, Women’s and Para teams that ensure player health and welfare. This role will set medical policy, liaise with football stakeholders to agree clinical standards and oversee cardiac screening across English football and will be the principal medical authority on ethical, regulatory and risk-related matters.

What will you be doing?

• Provide strategic leadership for medical governance across England teams, ensuring governance frameworks are robust, regularly reviewed and formally documented.
• Lead the identification, assessment and management of clinical risks, ensuring timely escalation and mitigation to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of England players.
• Chair and lead cross-pathway medical governance forums to drive consistent, evidence-based best practice across:

• Cardiac screening
• Medicines management and controlled drugs
• Medical records and data governance
• Injury surveillance
• Medical indemnity and healthcare costs
• Medical equipment standards

What are we looking for?

Essential for the role:

• Specialist registration in Sport & Exercise Medicine or equivalent significant experience at senior leadership level in sport.
• ATMMiF certificate or equivalent.
• Detailed understanding of the requirements of medical provision and ‘what it takes to win’ in elite sport, ideally football.
• Evidence of working with high integrity and professional independence.
• Calm, authoritative, and credible in high-pressure and public-facing contexts.
• Experience of working across multidisciplinary teams.
• Be self-motivated and able to proactively lead and implement strategy.
• Have excellent written communication skills with attention to detail in written documents.

Beneficial to have:

• Have a solid understanding of medical provision in a variety of sporting contexts, across male, female, professional, international and grassroots competition.
• Experience in commissioning or leading research.
• Familiarity with the current scientific evidence base relating to brain health in sport.
• Familiarity with the FA's emergency pitchside care courses and the wider background of emergency pitchside care in sport.
• Familiarity with the principles of cardiac screening in sport.

What’s in it for you?

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, to achieve this we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

We pride ourselves in offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:

• Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season, encouraging you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and well-being.
• Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
• Free private medical cover.
• A contributory pension scheme.
• An additional 'Thank You' days leave, volunteering days as well as 25 days annual leave (based on a full-time, permanent contract).
• A hybrid working model offering greater flexibility.

For more information on what it is like to work at The FA, please visit our FA Careers page. Currently, we are working within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model, and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary. The contractual location of this role can be found on the FA Careers page.

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work. We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.