Athletic Trainer- Lancaster General Hospital

Athletic Trainer
- Lancaster General Hospital

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Position Summary:

• Athletic Trainers ATs work under the supervision of a physician to provide injury prevention, clinical evaluation and diagnosis, immediate and emergency care, treatment and rehabilitation, while demonstrating professional and organizational skills to promote the health and well-being to the patients they serve. They may work in the clinic or outreach setting at the highest level of their licensure and conduct themselves in accordance with the professional standards set forth by the BOC and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians.
• Physician Relations
  - Ensures staff appropriately interact with physicians. As appropriate, seeks physician input on necessary clinical matters.
• Will help identify opportunities, build relationships with, and help secure additional secondary school, college, youth program, and or event contracts.
• Review quality and appropriateness of services delivered for effectiveness and efficiency using predetermined quality assurance criteria.
• Act as liaison between customers, patients, support staff and or physicians.
• Responsible for wound care and wound dressing.
• Help maintain a clean, comfortable, orderly and safe working environment.
• Maintains valid Driver's License
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Able to effectively communicate with peers and leaders within the practice, health system, and community.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• One 1 year of experience in traditional setting.
• Clinical experience in outpatient office.
• COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS
• ATTENTION CONCENTRATION
  - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:
• The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
• NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY
  - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:
• A large portion of this position requires reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible.
• PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING
  - The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:
• The position requires much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem.
  
  The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.
• APTITUDES:
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