Job Description:
Location: Lincolnton, NC
Salary: Depends on Experience
Description: Our client is seeking a full-time Athletic Trainer to join their team based out of Lincolnton, NC! Please find the job description below for your review. If interested, please send over a copy of your most up to date resume to jnachman@judge.com. Thank you and I look forward to connecting!
Essential Duties:
Evaluates, plans, directs, and administers programs of athletic training to restore function, prevent disability, and help athletes reach their maximum level of independence.
The Athletic Trainer will provide medical coverage, support and direction to patients providing professional sports medicine care through prevention, evaluation, immediate care/treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and sports related illnesses.
Provides leadership and participates in continuing education. Works closely with other disciplines
and specialties within the department and facility as well as with athletes and families to assure a cohesive
approach to athlete care.
The Athletic Trainer acts under the supervision of a physician and must adhere to
the protocols and guidelines as required by the state licensing agency.
Essential Functions
• Provide athletic training services to high schools and/or community sporting events as determined
necessary in order to attain departmental goals of community service.
• Provision of medical coverage will be based on the school practice and event schedule, primarily
during afternoons and evening hours.
• Establish and maintain effective professional working relationships.
• Evaluates athletes and sports related injuries, designs, and implements athletic training for
rehabilitation and reconditioning, establishes a care plan to include necessary activities and
athlete education as warranted by the athlete's diagnosis and condition utilizing the departments
policies and procedures and within the scope of practice and standards of care.
• Determine appropriate therapeutic treatment and provide rehabilitation, and/or reconditioning
strategies, and taping / wrapping and bracing for preventative and protective treatment.
• Implement treatment program objectives including long and short-term goals and an appraisal of
those which the patient can realistically be expected to achieve from the program. Assessment
measures to determine the effectiveness of the program are incorporated into the program.
• Gathers and interprets appropriate data from the medical record, physician, athlete, and/or family
as evidenced by documentation.
• Communicates athlete's evaluation and subsequent progress to physician, referral sources, and
other clinical staff and coordinates athlete's schedule, treatment programs, discharge planning,
and recommends solutions to athlete care problems.
Education
1. College graduate with BS, MS, or MA degree from a CAATE accredited program.
2. Current certification through the Board of Certification Inc. and licensed by the NC Board of Athletic
Trainer Examiners and/or SC State Certification. Non primary state License/Certification within 90
days.
3. One year of experience as a high school or collegiate certified athletic trainer preferred.
4. Completion of American Heart Association Healthcare Provider or American Red Cross which includes
CPR and AED training.
Contact: jnachman@judge.com
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