Substitute, Athletic Trainer

Job Overview

The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) is responsible for coordinating and administering a comprehensive health care program for all student athletes. The ATC is responsible for immediate care of injured athletes, implementing techniques and strategies to encourage the prevention of athletic injuries and illnesses, and providing for recognition, evaluation, management, and rehabilitation of injuries to student athletes. The ATC advises coaches and coordinates the efforts of doctors, athletes, and parents, ensuring that players participate only when capable and that physicians’ instructions are understood and followed.

• Develops a plan for emergency health care of injured athletes; provides evaluation and treatment to injured athletes; initiates and processes all injury reports; maintains first aid supplies and ensures they are in their proper location for use; renders on-site decisions, in the absence of a physician, on the playing status of a player.
• Counsels coaches when an athlete may participate in practice or games following injury or illness; counsels athletes in seeking proper medical assistance for follow-up care.
• Maintains accurate medical records for all athletes, to include, but not limited to, athletic physicals, treatments rendered, physician referrals and recommendations, etc.
• Advises coaches and coordinates the efforts of doctors, athletes, and parents; establishes injury prevention practices.
• Supervises the athletic training room; attends athletic practices and games; assists staff in selection and fitting of equipment.
• Conducts in-service programs for the coaching staff in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.
• Ensures current CPR and First Aid certification of all coaches through class instruction when necessary.
• Assists administrators, coaches, and game officials in decisions regarding playing surface and atmospheric conditions relating to player safety.
• Performs related work as required.

• Must be certified by the National Athletic Trainer Association and maintain that association’s standards.
• Must be licensed by the Virginia Board of Medicine as an Athletic Trainer or be eligible for licensure.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with students, parents, administrators, and medical personnel to ensure that proper methods are used in prevention and treatment of injuries.
• Must be a Certified First Aid/CPR Instructor, or willing to complete the certification upon hiring.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. The employee must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. The employee must possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies. Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time.

Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.