Associate Athletic Trainer, Olympic Sports (Women’s Rowing)

Pay Range: Commensurate with education and experience

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Work
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Frequent evenings, weekends, and holidays based on competition and training
schedule

Travel: Required

Position Introduction:

The Associate Athletic Trainer,
Women’s Rowing, under the medical-legal supervision of the Head Team Physician and the Head Athletic Trainer/Athletics Health Care
Administrator (AHCA), with direct primary responsibility for Women’s Rowing and potential secondary coverage of an additional Olympic sport
as assigned, is responsible for the prevention, evaluation, management, and rehabilitation of injury and illness within the University’s
comprehensive athletic medicine program; empowered with unchallengeable authority to determine management and return to play of any ill or
injured student-athlete, as the athletic trainer deems appropriate; and empowered with unchallengeable authority to cancel or modify any
workout for health and safety reasons, as deemed appropriate.

Essential Functions:

• Primary medical care
  provider with dedicated responsibility to the Women’s Rowing program and possible coverage of a secondary Olympic Sport as assigned
• Emergency medicine preparedness
• Develop and implement comprehensive emergency action plans
• Coordinate the medical
  preparation of the Rowing program
• Ensure supply and equipment preparedness
• Preventing, recognizing, diagnosing, referring,
  treating, and rehabilitating injuries
• Establishing criteria for safe return to practice and play and implementing the
  return-to-play process
• Establishing and operating treatment facilities for both practice and game situations that follow national
  and local standards
• Determining venue and activity settings requiring the on-site presence of the athletic trainer and team
  physician, and which require that they be available
• Maintaining accurate medical records for athletes
• Supervision,
  education, and recruitment of undergraduate student aides
• Specific oversight and supervision of Certified Athletic Trainer(s)
  assigned to sport
• Work with the Head Athletic Trainer, physicians, and other allied health care professionals to deliver quality
  healthcare to athletes
• Other duties as assigned by the Head Athletic Trainer

Duties:

• Injury
  Prevention – athlete focused and program focused with coaches
• Injury/Illness Evaluation – assess acute conditions and determine
  plan
• Injury/Illness Management – implement care & treatment plan
• Rehabilitation – operative & non-operative
  rehabilitation
• Documentation – maintain athlete personal medical record
• Administration – as warranted tasks with
  professional medical staff, coaches, compliance, etc.
• Athlete workout – present for organized/supervised practices and strength &
  conditioning
• Sport Competition – attend all home and away competitions

Reports To: Head Athletic Trainer
/ Athletics Health Care Administrator
Positions Directly Supervised: Full-time athletic trainer(s) and undergraduate
staff assigned to Rowing

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Required Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree
• 3 years of related
  experience

Required Certifications and Licenses:

• Certified Athletic Trainer by the Board of Certification
  (BOC) and/or Licensed Physical Therapist
• Licensed per the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision
• Current CPR/AED certification

Department Preferences:

• 5 years’ experience

Hiring
Contingent Upon a Background Check: Yes

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