Position: Athletic Trainer

Position Summary:

To assume the responsibility and obligation of establishing and maintaining a high school athletic training program, in all sports. Provides athletic injury management and other health services for all high school athletes, and assists coaches with the design and implementation of injury prevention programs.

Job Type: Full-time

Contract: 200 Days

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

Virginia Athletic Trainer License

Hold and maintain first aid certification and CPR certification

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for prevention, emergency care, first aid, evaluation, and rehabilitation of injuries to athletes under his/her care.
• Serve as liaison between the team physician, the athlete, the athlete’s parents, and coaching staff.
• Consultant to coaching staff on conditioning, nutrition, and protective equipment.
• Assist with prevention of injuries including education for athletes and Athletic Trainers, identifying factors that put athletes “at risk”, correcting deficiencies in athletes as deemed necessary, as well as taping and bracing.
• Provide emergency care and first aid including availability of necessary equipment, communication procedures for emergency situations, and prompt, accurate triage.
• Evaluate acute and chronic injuries and refer to the team physician or specialist where appropriate. Help decide if a player may return to competition following an injury.
• Treat athletic injuries with protection, rest, ice, compression, evaluation, support, ultrasound, electrical stimulation, cold/heat/ and hydrotherapy as needed or prescribed with the availability of modalities.
• Develop, supervise, evaluate, and modify individual exercise programs for rehabilitation to help athletes return to a pre-injury status.
• Maintain records including injury reports, home care instructions, referrals, treatment records, rehabilitation progress notes, and insurance information.
• Secure training room equipment and supplies as needed.
• Provide education and supervision for athletes and students.
• Cover team practices allowing access to the athletic training room.
• Cover sporting events as scheduled with the athletic director.
• Establishment of a positive learning environment that promotes a high level of achievement for all students while considering the background and developmental level of the individual students.
• Prepares and maintains a variety of reports, correspondence and notices.
• Maintains accurate and complete student documentation as required by law, district policy and administrative regulations.
• Attends conferences, workshops and other professional development to maintain current knowledge of profession.
• Maintains appropriate levels of confidentiality.
• Collaborates with school personnel to develop school-wide initiatives to make schools safer and more effective.
• Make the training room facilities and medical attention available to school athletes with arrangements made by the coach and the Athletic Trainer.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Coordinate and organize the daily Athletic Trainer functions with the Athletic Director and coaches at each high school.

Complete all reporting requirements to the district.

Review student physicals and releases to ensure authenticity.

Good Communication skills in communicating to parents and staff.

Is expected to meet the school’s professional, clinical, technical, communication and documentation requirements and standards and to make decisions based on established National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) guidelines.

Special Requirements:

Virginia Athletic Trainer License

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

Virginia Athletic Trainer License

Physical Requirements:

This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force; work regularly requires standing, speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires walking and occasionally requires sitting and repetitive motions; work requires close vision, distance vision, depth perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data and observing general surroundings and activities; work occasionally requires exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, playground, classroom, light traffic).

Supervision Exercised: Director of Student Activities and Building Principal