4 Sports Healthcare jobs in the United Kingdom

**Why join Stryker?**
Do you want to work for one of the world's leading medical device organisations? Our aim is to make a difference to patients' lives every day, delivering innovative products and technology to make healthcare better. We are committed to advancing healthcare. We have never been afraid to push forward and navigate the best paths for our clients and patients.
Are you naturally competitive and love to win? Have you considered a career in Sports Medicine sales?
We have an opportunity in the exciting and fast paced medical devices market that is Sports Medicine. You will be responsible for increasing sales in your territory, and for developing relationships with customers of the Sports Medicine portfolio. You will manage existing business and account manage the established customers, and hunt down new business opportunities within the territory. When onsite with customers, you use your product knowledge and quick thinking to solve product problems and inform doctors, nurses and other staff as to the proper use and maintenance of your products.
**Who we want**
+ **Challengers.** People who seek out the hard projects and work to find just the right solutions.
+ **Teammates.** Partners who listen to ideas, share thoughts and work together to move the business forward.
+ **Networkers.** Relationship-savvy people who intentionally make connections with both internal partners and external contacts.
+ **Closers.** Salespeople who close profitable business and consistently exceed their performance objectives.
+ **Game** **Changers.** Persistent salespeople who will stop at nothing to live out Stryker's mission to make healthcare better.
**What you need**
+ B.A. or B.S degree ideally in a science or business-based subject or equivalent experience
+ A strong record of success within sales
+ Strong communication and interpersonal skills
+ An individual who takes 'ownership'
+ Ability to demonstrate your drive and desire to succeed and win
+ Somebody aligned to our Values -Integrity, Accountability, People, and Performance
+ Team player
+ Leadership / position of responsibility within a team, group or community
+ A valid UK drivers' license
**What do we offer in return?**
+ Ability to discover your strengths, follow your passion and own your own career
+ In-house product training program
+ Field sales training
+ Sales career path toward uncapped earning potential!
+ Quality products that improve the lives of customers and patients
+ A winning team driven to achieve our mission and deliver remarkable results
+ Coworkers committed to achieving more and winning the right way
Our benefits include bonuses; commissions; healthcare; family and parenting leaves; wellness programs; onsite gym's and restaurants; discount purchase programs; and service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities.
In line with the requirements of the role, you will also receive a mobile phone, iPad, laptop, and company car or car allowance.
**Who are we?**
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including orthopaedics, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology & spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives. Stryker products and services are available in over 100 countries around the world.
**Sports Medicine**
Read more about our portfolio of products here - Sports Medicine | Stryker ( is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.

**Why join Stryker?**
Do you want to work for one of the world's leading medical device organisations? Our aim is to make a difference to patients' lives every day, delivering innovative products and technology to make healthcare better. We are committed to advancing healthcare. We have never been afraid to push forward and navigate the best paths for our clients and patients.
Are you naturally competitive and love to win? Have you considered a career in Sports Medicine sales?
We have an opportunity in the exciting and fast paced medical devices market that is Sports Medicine. You will be responsible for increasing sales in your territory, and for developing relationships with customers of the Sports Medicine portfolio. You will manage existing business and account manage the established customers, and hunt down new business opportunities within the territory. When onsite with customers, you use your product knowledge and quick thinking to solve product problems and inform doctors, nurses and other staff as to the proper use and maintenance of your products.
**Who we want**
+ **Challengers.** People who seek out the hard projects and work to find just the right solutions.
+ **Teammates.** Partners who listen to ideas, share thoughts and work together to move the business forward.
+ **Networkers.** Relationship-savvy people who intentionally make connections with both internal partners and external contacts.
+ **Closers.** Salespeople who close profitable business and consistently exceed their performance objectives.
+ **Game** **Changers.** Persistent salespeople who will stop at nothing to live out Stryker's mission to make healthcare better.
**What you need**
+ B.A. or B.S degree ideally in a science or business-based subject or equivalent experience
+ A strong record of success within sales
+ Strong communication and interpersonal skills
+ An individual who takes 'ownership'
+ Ability to demonstrate your drive and desire to succeed and win
+ Somebody aligned to our Values -Integrity, Accountability, People, and Performance
+ Team player
+ Leadership / position of responsibility within a team, group or community
+ A valid UK drivers' license
**What do we offer in return?**
+ Ability to discover your strengths, follow your passion and own your own career
+ In-house product training program
+ Field sales training
+ Sales career path toward uncapped earning potential!
+ Quality products that improve the lives of customers and patients
+ A winning team driven to achieve our mission and deliver remarkable results
+ Coworkers committed to achieving more and winning the right way
Our benefits include bonuses; commissions; healthcare; family and parenting leaves; wellness programs; onsite gym's and restaurants; discount purchase programs; and service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities.
In line with the requirements of the role, you will also receive a mobile phone, iPad, laptop, and company car or car allowance.
**Who are we?**
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including orthopaedics, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology & spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives. Stryker products and services are available in over 100 countries around the world.
**Sports Medicine**
Read more about our portfolio of products here - Sports Medicine | Stryker ( is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.

We are currently recruiting for Standards Verifiers for our Allied Health Professional Therapy Support sector.
**Purpose of this role:**
Undertake sampling of assessment and internal verification decisions and records for competence-based qualifications within a Principal Subject Area (PSA) in order to affirm that national occupational standards have been achieved and upheld. Support, advise and guide centres based on the outcomes of the sampling process. Direct centres in the delivery of competence-based qualifications towards the achievement of national occupational standards.
Applicants must have significant experience of delivering and assessing NVQs at level 1-3, hold D32/D33 or A1 qualifications, and hold/be working towards the V1 or the Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice.
A good working knowledge of the relevant specifications, and evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the field of assessment and delivery of vocational qualifications are also required.
**Key Accountabilities:**
For competence-based qualifications for the sector(s) for which occupational competency is demonstrated, the Standards Verifier NVQ will:
+ Undertake sampling of learner work within defined parameters and rules to verify that assessment outcomes, assessment and internal verification processes meet national occupational standards
+ Provide sector-specific support, advice and guidance to centres
+ Produce reports for centres and Pearson on the: sampling undertaken; outcomes reached and support provided
+ To recommend limited certification, certification deferral or registration deferral where it is deemed that flawed assessment or internal verification decisions or processes mean that national occupational standards are not met
+ Produce targeted actions for centres to assist with remedial action where national occupational standards are not being upheld
+ Support centres to understand and implement identified actions
+ Report back to Pearson and centres following SV activity within agreed service-level agreements
+ Provide source materials for the standardisation of centre assessors, internal verifiers and lead internal verifiers as requested
+ Undertake any other duties appropriate to the work of WBL Assessment in relation to this role
**PERSON SPECIFICATION**
**Experience Required:**
**Essential:**
In order to be considered for the role, you must be occupationally competent in Allied Health Profession - Therapy Support. (The 12 Allied Health Professions are: art therapists, music therapists, drama therapists, paramedics, podiatrists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians, radiographers, orthoptists and prosthetists/orthotists. The professions carrying out therapeutic interventions are likely to primarily carry out therapeutic tasks related to: dietetics, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry or speech and language therapy). Please refer to attached Apprenticeship standards for guidance on specific requirements.
_Allied Health Profession (AHP) - therapy support workers work with individuals in a range of settings, your clinical and therapeutic duties will vary accordingly. There are 12 different AHP professions and you may carry out tasks associated with a single profession or tasks that relate to a range of them. Your supervisor will usually be a registered Allied Health Professional. Illness, disability or a change in life circumstances often means that people have to learn or be supported to do things in new and different ways. This can change the pattern of a life-course but individuals can often expect to regain and enjoy a quality of life through the therapeutic and clinical support you provide. Some individuals may have short term needs eg an injury. Others may have long-term physical and/or mental illness or learning disability that affects their independence, function or way of living. You will be required to work with the individual either on their own or within a group setting. You may also work with others to support the individual eg training carers or working with families._
+ Significant experience in delivering and assessing NVQs
+ Hold D32/D33 or A1 qualifications, and hold/be working towards the V1 or the Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
+ Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the field of assessment and delivery of vocational qualifications.
**Desirable**
+ A willingness to engage in online training and standardisation and to use technology-based approaches for communication and centre support Significant experience in delivering and assessing NVQs.
**Skills & Knowledge:**
**Essential**
+ Excellent communication, written, verbal, IT and interpersonal skills
+ A good working knowledge of the specifications that comprise the area of expertise for the role
+ A customer-focused approach
+ Time management and ability to develop and monitor clear action plans
+ Ability to work effectively as part of a team
+ Ability to understand the implications of decisions taken on Pearson's behalf and not to operate outside the sphere of responsibility defined within this job description
**Desirable**
+ Word processing and basic spreadsheet manipulation
**Requirements:**
Any associate undertaking this role must:
+ Have personal IT equipment capable of running Pearson required software Have a suitable internet connection
+ Have a personal and secure email account
+ Have a postal address in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland Declare any conflicts of interest that could impact on the role
+ Have availability for a minimum of 8 allocations in any given year
+ Abide by the terms of conditions as stated in the contract for word
**About Pearson**
We value the power of inclusive culture and embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Pearson promotes a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm. Through our talent, we believe that diversity and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant company. People are at the centre of our company. We are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace ecosystem where talent can learn, grow, and thrive. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are the UK's largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses.
**Application Information**
We have a number of opportunities available for teaching professionals to join our growing teams of examiners, moderators and verifiers.
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