Details
Posted: 17-May-23
Location: Lewiston, Maine
Type: Full-time
Salary: $43,949 – $59,461
Categories:
Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine – Athletic Training
Sector:
Collegiate Sports
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Internal Number: 492701
The Bates Sports Medicine Department and Central Maine Medical Center have designed an eleven- month, Transition to Practice, program to offer newly credentialed athletic training professionals an opportunity to broaden and enhance their clinical and professional skills as they continue to develop their practice.
The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) supports intercollegiate athletics and is responsible for the care and wellbeing of student-athletes through the provision of athletic training services including testing, evaluation, assignment of training regimens, and treatment of injuries, rehabilitation and medical referrals. The ATC works directly with student-athletes to provide care, education, counseling, evaluation, treatment and rehab of athletic injuries and illnesses both on campus and at game venues. The ATC must follow the athletic philosophy consistent with that of the Bates Athletic Department, NESCAC and NCAA. The Office of Athletic Performance celebrates and honors difference, engages students of all backgrounds and strives to ensure accessible services for all student-athletes.
- Commitment to equity and inclusion, and serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse community.
- Excellent communication (written, verbal and presentation) skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; ability to synthesize complex or diverse information.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
- Impeccable organizational (time, task, project management) skills and ability to coordinate resources and staff within the college community.
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to develop and maintain collegial relationships. Must be flexible, collaborative and have a positive attitude.
- Proficiency in basic data management systems and basic computer applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Willingness and ability to learn additional applications as needed.
- Works collaboratively with Bates Health Services to review pre-participation sport physicals to screen for orthopedic problems or issues that could/may affect the student-athletes safe participation.
- Provides injury prevention measures such as appliances, braces and devices for control of joint motion and limb protections.
- Ensures proper equipment use and fitting such as helmets, shoulder pads, braces, mouth pieces. The use of tape or wraps.
- May assist in the selection and fitting of protective equipment.
- Evaluates athletic injuries through a subjective history, objective findings through observation, palpation, special tests, manual muscle testing and range of motion tests.
- Formulates assessments and executes plans of action that best aid/fit student-athletes’ health needs and determines student-athletes’ safe return to sport participation.
- Collaborates with the team physician to utilize concussion assessment tool(s) in determining the safe return of a concussed student-athlete.
- Uses discretion in designing and developing treatment or reconditioning/rehab plans of athletic injuries.
- Uses treatment modalities such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, hydrotherapy and therapeutic exercise.
- Recognizes and manipulates conditions which require special taping, bracing, padding, either preventative or rehabilitative.
- Refers student-athletes to external medical care based on student-athletes’ needs following the evaluation and assessment of the ATC.
- Provides regular injury reports and reports status and progress of injured athletes to team physician and coaches.
- Complies with policies and rules of Bates Athletics, NESCAC and the NCAA related to medical care for student-athletes.
- Maintains confidential documentation and record keeping of injury reports and progress notes on all active student-athletes. Ensures that each file is up-to-date to facilitate insurance billing and payments and for any future medical or legal claims.
- Adheres to HIPPA standards in protecting student-athletes’ medical privacy.
- The Certified Athletic Trainer is a mandated reporter of known or suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation of an adult if they believe the adult is incapacitated or dependent.The law also states that certain people, like an Athletic Trainer, must report to the Department of Health and Human Services, Child Protection if they know or have reasonable cause to suspect that a child has been or is likely to be abused or neglected.