FC Halifax Town have announced that first-team physio Aaron Scholes is to leave the club to join Bradford Bulls.

Scholes has been with Halifax for seven years and prior to that, primarily worked in rugby league, including with the Bulls as well as the Scottish international rugby league team and the England community lions rugby league team.

He has also worked with the first-teams at Bradford City and Huddersfield Town.

He initially shared the job at Town with fellow physio Nick Taylor, but became the club’s head of sports science and medicine at the start of the 2020-21 season.

The Shaymen say they are now inviting applications for a replacement in the role.