About This Role
Assessing injuries and managing comprehensive treatment programs to prevent injury and rehabilitate athletes is the core of this role. This position involves developing conditioning programs, designing training, and maintaining medical documentation.
Responsibilities
- Develop conditioning programs for injured and non-injured athletes to ensure safety in the program design incorporating nutrition plans and schedules customized to meet individual athlete needs
- Design and implement comprehensive training or rehabilitation programs to prevent injury and illness among athletes
- Evaluate and manage injuries
- Maintain medical documentation on each athlete and act as a liaison between the physician and the athlete
- Prepare athletes for practice or competition based on team schedules, applicable regulations and guidelines, and in conjunction with physician and sports performance staff
- Work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Athletic Training or related field
- No experience required
- Constant standing
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication
- Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more)
- Frequent walking, reaching, gripping and keyboard use/data entry
- Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, sitting, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs
- Occasional lifting/moving patients
- Occasional use of vision to judge distances and spatial relationships and to identify and distinguish colors
- Occasional driving
- Rare crawling
- Resuscitation Certification Requirement: Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) required within 90 days of employment. Other resuscitation certifications may be required dependent on department.
- Athletic Trainer - Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) and Licensed Athletic Trainer - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) (for Illinois)
- Athletic Trainer - Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) and Athletic Trainer - Missouri Division of Professional Registration (for Missouri)
- Athletic Trainer - Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) and Athletic Trainer - Oklahoma Medical Board OR Letter of Acknowledgment of Receipt of Application for Athletic Trainer - Oklahoma Medical Board and Athletic Trainer - Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) (for Oklahoma)
