Multisport Medical Doctor📣 Job Ad

Position Overview

Al-Qadsiah Saudi Club, located in Al Khobar, Eastern region, is seeking a Multisport Medical Doctor to join its Performance Support team. This full-time role requires 5-10 years of experience and involves a key leadership position within the Club’s ambitious sports programs.

Role Purpose

The Multisport Medical Doctor will lead the sports medicine provision across a range of disciplines, supporting athletes and coaches within Al-Qadsiah’s Olympic Champion programme (2028 focus) and Emerging Sports programme (2032 focus). This position involves leading a team of practitioners, establishing and maintaining world-class standards of medical provision, and collaborating with coaches and multidisciplinary performance staff to minimize injury and illness risk while maximizing athlete health, availability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a performance medicine strategy focused on athlete education, proactive self-management, and effective response to serious injury or illness.
• Lead the planning and management of medical services across the multi-sport programme, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of injury and illness.
• Ensure programme athletes receive high standards of injury and illness prevention, treatment, and medical care.
• Collaborate with coaches and performance support staff to minimize injury risk and maximize competitive performance through an individualized, performance-focused approach.
• Act as Team Doctor at agreed Al-Qadsiah events and competitions.
• Maintain high standards of evidence-based clinical practice while encouraging innovation in support of athlete performance.
• Ensure medico-legal requirements are consistently maintained across the multi-sport medical department.
• Oversee the delivery of anti-doping policies, procedures, and education across the multi-sport programme.
• Lead an appropriate Continuing Professional Development programme for members of the Al-Qadsiah multi-sport medical team.

Required Experience and Skills

Candidates must possess 5-10 years of significant experience operating within elite and high-performance sport, alongside the clinical expertise and leadership capability required to oversee medical provision in a multi-sport environment. Specific requirements include:

• Extensive experience providing medical services to elite athletes and coaches.
• A strong track record of working within multidisciplinary high-performance teams.
• Experience developing and implementing medical education programmes and world-class standards of practice.
• Ability to appropriately modify training and rehabilitation programmes according to clinical need, in collaboration with coaches and other performance staff.
• Advanced competency in clinical examination, functional assessment, and the medical management of sports injury and illness.
• Ability to evaluate musculoskeletal imaging, scientific data, and relevant sports medicine and sports science literature.
• Experience in effective clinical interventions, including injection techniques and allied therapies.
• Experience travelling with teams to major senior international competitions (*, Olympic or Paralympic Games, World or Continental Championships, Commonwealth Games).
• Detailed MSK ultrasound knowledge and experience interpreting radiological imaging.
• Comprehensive knowledge and direct experience of anti-doping.
• An understanding of the cost-benefit considerations associated with medical service provision.

Education and Qualifications

• Higher specialist training recognized by the GMC, or equivalent, in Sport & Exercise Medicine or Rheumatology & Rehabilitation, or be within six months of Specialist registration.
• A postgraduate qualification in Sports (and Exercise) Medicine at Diploma level, or equivalent, with verifiable clinical training in sports medicine.

The Opportunity

This full-time position in Al Khobar offers a senior medical leadership role within an ambitious high-performance sporting environment. The successful candidate will contribute directly to the development of Al-Qadsiah Saudi Club’s multi-sport programmes and long-term competitive objectives. For further information, please contact Harry Lynch at Sporting Jobs directly. All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.