FORMER Salisbury RFC youth star Richard Hill says he is honoured to be appointed by Eddie Jones as England's team manager.

Reporting directly to the head coach, the 2003 World Cup winner will take up the new position at England’s training camp in Brighton on Sunday as the team begins its preparation for the Old Mutual Wealth Series.

Hill's duties will range from maintaining England Rugby’s internal and external relationships to providing mentoring and support for players and management.

The back-row forward, who schooled at Bishop Wordsworth's, spent his entire playing career at Saracens and made his senior England debut against Scotland at Twickenham Stadium in 1997 - going on to represent his country 71 times. He was capped five times by the British & Irish Lions during the South Africa (1997), Australia (2001) and New Zealand (2005) tours and awarded an MBE in 2003.

Since retiring through injury in 2008, Hill has worked for Saracens and the RFU.

In June 2014, Hill was appointed RFU Player Pathway Liaison Manager where he played an important role with England’s international performance coaches to help identify, mentor and develop young players both on and off the field.

Since 2008 Hill has been a national member of the RFU council, a position he stepped down from on taking up his new role in the England set-up. Most recently Hill was team manager on the England Saxons tour of South Africa in the summer.

This is the second time Hill and Jones will have joined forces having previously worked together when Jones was director of rugby at Saracens.

Hill, 43, said: “It is a great honour to take up this position with the national team.

“These are exciting times for English rugby and I look forward to supporting the team and management in our journey to the World Cup in 2019.”

Hill caught up with old teammates at Salisbury RFC's All Change initiative earlier this month, which raised £10,000 towards refurbishing the club's changing room facilities.