Job Title: Athletic Trainer
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Summary: Responsible for evaluating and advising individuals to assist recovery from, or avoid, athletic-related injuries or illnesses or maintain peak physical fitness and provide first aid or emergency care if required by performing the following duties.
Duties and Responsibilities include the following essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.
- Conducts a thorough initial assessment of an athlete's injury or illness to provide emergency or continued care and to determine whether they should be referred to physicians for definitive diagnosis and treatment.
- Provides care for athletic injuries using athletic training equipment and techniques.
- Evaluates athletes' readiness to play and provides participation restrictions or clearances when necessary and warranted.
- Applies protective or injury preventive devices such as tape, bandages, or braces, to body parts such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
- Assesses and reports the progress of recovering athletes to parents, coaches and/or physicians.
- Advises athletes on the proper use of equipment and confers with coaches to select protective equipment.
- Plans or implements comprehensive athletic injury or illness prevention programs.
- Develops training programs or routines designed to improve athletic performance, rehabilitate injury, or prevent injury.
- Travels with athletic teams to be available at all sporting events.
- Instructs coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, or community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.
- Inspects playing fields to locate any items that could injure players.
- Conducts research or provides instruction on subject matter related to athletic training or sports medicine.
- Recommends special diets to improve athletes' health, maintain proper hydration, increase their stamina, or alter their weight.
- Massages body parts to relieve soreness, strains, or bruises.
- Performs teams support duties such as running errands, maintaining equipment or stocking supplies.
- Leads stretching exercises for team members prior to games or practices.
- Communicates with staff and families when necessary.
- Performs general administrative tasks such as keeping records or writing reports and maintains accurate and up-to-date medical records.
- Equipment Maintenance - Performs routine maintenance on equipment and determineswhen and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Management of Financial Resources - Determines how money will be spent to get thework done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Management of Material Resources - Obtains and sees to the appropriate use ofequipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Management of Personnel Resources- Motivates, develops, and directs people as theywork and identifies the best people for the job.
- Time Management- Manages one's own time and the time of others.
- Communicates well with operations staff and families.
- Develops strong multi-disciplinary medical team with doctors, surgeons, dentists, andparamedics.
- Facilitates player appointments, fills prescriptions, and accompanies players to hospital ifneeded.
- Provides medical coverage for all games, practices, and training sessions.
- Enforces all concussion and return-to-play protocols as set out by the league.
- Enforces COVID protocols if in effect.
- Coordinates with team equipment manager to ensure proper set-up of gameday suppliesand maintain cleanliness of dressing rooms, gym, treatment areas, and offices.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Language Ability:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Math Ability:
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of word processing software, spreadsheet software, accounting software, inventory software, payroll software, internet software, human resource systems, database software, and Medical software such as BioEx Systems Exercise Pro, ImPACT.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree; Master's degree (M.A./M.S.) or equivalent
- NATA BOC certified Athletic Trainer
Specialized Training:
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master
Equipment:
- Facial shields; face shields, mouth guards
- Orthopedic splint systems; air splints, fixed splints, vacuum splints
- Pedal exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy; elliptical trainers, exercise bicycles
- Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs; cold therapy equipment, heat therapy equipment, ultrasound, electrical stimulation.
Knowledge, Skills, and Other Abilities:
- Medicine and Dentistry - Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Therapy and Counseling - Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions.
- Psychology - Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Biology - Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to twenty-five pounds.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, and outdoor weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to disease or infections.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
