About This Role
This part-time athletic trainer position coordinates outreach services for youth, high school, and recreational athletes, including coverage at community events. The role also involves assisting with patient care in sports medicine and orthopedic clinics, and providing expertise in performance enhancement and injury prevention.
Responsibilities
- Provide athletic training services, including evening and weekend event coverage for contracted schools and non-school events
- Maintain accurate records of event coverage, travel, and mileage
- Perform injury evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries
- Make recommendations for physician referral as appropriate and maintain documentation of injuries and referrals
- Communicate with physicians, coaches, and parents regarding athletic injury evaluations and recommendations for triage and plan of care
- Serve as liaison and coordinator of outreach services between athletic directors and the Rehabilitation Services Manager
- Provide input to athletic directors regarding school supply budget and maintain supplies, ensuring a clean and orderly athletic training room
- Provide expertise and supervision for performance enhancement and injury prevention services
- Develop patient education programs and tools for all areas of athletic training and sports medicine
- Coordinate and provide athletic training services to community youth and adult recreational athletic leagues and community-sponsored athletic tournaments and events
- Provide patient care in rehab services department, collaborating with physical and occupational therapists with general supervision of a PT when required, following state and federal regulations
- Provide responsibilities working with sports medicine or orthopedic providers in their clinics, including:
- Room patients, collect patient history information including vitals, medications, and allergies
- Provide education on exercises
- Sizing and application of splints and braces; application of casts as directed by physician
- Crutch training as directed by physician
- Prepare patients for injections as directed by physician
- Perform examinations as appropriate to athletic training scope of practice
- Prepare charts for patient appointments; call appropriate facility to retrieve needed information
- Clean and disinfect patient treatment rooms per infection control policy
- Guide and support patients through the sports medicine care continuum to ensure optimal access to healthcare resources within and external to the SPH system, including:
- Facilitate appointments with specialists and support services within established service standards
