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Location: Wooster, OH Category: Staff Posted On: Thu Jul 18 2024 Job Description:

Summary:

The Assistant Athletic Trainer is a member of the athletic training staff responsible for providing high-quality care for the student-athletes participating on the 23 NCAA Division III varsity teams. The primary objective is to ensure the safest sports experience by preventing and managing injuries, thereby promoting the health and overall success of the athletic program. 

 

Essential Departmental Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Provides athletic training services, including initial injury evaluation, care, therapy plans, and post-surgical rehabilitation for varsity athletic programs; attends practices and competitions as necessary.
  • Coordinates and schedules medical referrals for student-athletes to determine their ability to practice and compete safely.
  • Works successfully with the Student Wellness Center, team physicians, and coaches to ensure effective communication and continuity of care.
  • Evaluates and recommends new techniques and equipment to enhance the sports medicine program.
  • Assists with coordinating athletic injury insurance claims.
  • Assists in administrative operations including medical documentation, policy/procedure revision, budget management, and ordering equipment and supplies.
  • Assists with hiring, scheduling, orientation, and training of student athletic training room assistants.
  • Evaluates and provides first aid and initial injury management for non-varsity athletes through the Student Wellness Center.
  • Attends education symposiums and meetings to assure professional development and to fulfill continuing education requirements.
  • Assists with supervision of approximately 35 student athletic training room assistants.
  • Serves as an active member of the athletic department’s team, providing leadership, goals, and program implementation for nearly 2,000 undergraduate students and 600 student-athletes.
  • Fosters supportive, collaborative working relationships with coaches, student affairs colleagues, faculty, and other campus partners to accomplish shared objectives and tasks.
  • Develops meaningful connections with students, staff and faculty by being available and visible on campus.
  • Engages team members in service activities both on campus and in the surrounding community.
  • Creates a welcoming environment emphasizing inclusion and the development of diverse identities, beliefs, and voices.
  • Strives to exemplify the College’s mission by providing a welcoming and competitive environment that values community and fosters growth.
  • Demonstrates a commitment to the priorities and ideals of The College of Wooster and the Department of Athletics and Physical Education.
  • May be assigned additional duties in teaching, committee and administrative work. These responsibilities are determined annually by the Head Coach, Chair of Physical Education, and Director (Associate Director) of Athletics and Physical Education.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

 

Education and/or Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred.
  • National Athletic Trainers’ Association BOC Certification required.
  • Ohio Licensure required.
  • The ability to obtain College driver certification is desirable.
  • Collegiate athletic trainer experience strongly preferred.
  • CPR, AED, & First Aid Certification (Instructor Certification Preferred).

 

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Skills: 

  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and various instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Proficiency in writing reports and correspondence.   
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively and professionally with students, faculty and staff, and the public are required.
  • Capability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgments.  
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.           

Knowledge: 

  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Basic Word/Excel and ability to learn and operate recruiting software.

Abilities: 

  • Adheres to College, Department of Athletics and Physical Education, NCAC and NCAA policies and regulations.
  • Demonstrates a commitment to the priorities and ideals of The College of Wooster and the Department of Athletics and Physical Education.
  • Ability to read, understand, follow, and enforce safety regulations.
  • Manages several projects simultaneously and works well under pressure. 
  • Flexibility to respond to changing priorities. 
  • Ability to foster a cooperative work environment.
  • Maintains composure in high-pressure situations.  
  • Acknowledges and complies with all departmental standard operating procedures, safety, and college requirements. 
  • Commitment to supporting students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
  • Ability to deal with sensitive matters confidentially.
  • Demonstrates skill in interacting in a sensitive, courteous, and understanding way with members of a diverse academic community, including students, faculty, staff, and the general public is required.  
  • Strong professional ethics and discretion with an attitude of respect for all employed at The College of Wooster.

 

Work Environment: 

  • Athletic Trainers are required to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, or holidays.
  • Travel for athletic contests, convention/caucus attendance is required.
  • While performing the duties of this job, Athletic Trainers regularly travel in outside weather conditions and are exposed to wet or humid conditions, extreme temperatures, dirt, and dust.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

 

Physical Demands: 

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
  • The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • The individual must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Additional Information:

The College of Wooster does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, political affiliation, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin (including ancestry), citizenship status, disability, age, marital status, family responsibilities, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy, or by state, local, or federal law. All offers of employment are subject to verification of the legal right to work in the United States as required by federal law. The College of Wooster is committed by policy and practice to diversity, equity and inclusion. For more information see our nondiscrimination policy.