ATHLETIC TRAINER - OGHS

Job ID: Athletic Trainer (metadata retained for reference)

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Certification by National Athletic Trainers Association
• Current CPR and First Aid certifications
• Valid California Driver’s License

About the Role

Evaluates physical condition and advises and treats student athletes to maintain maximum physical fitness for participation in athletic competition.

Responsibilities

• Maintains files and records for student athletes (may involve technological support)
• Prescribes routine and corrective exercises to strengthen muscles
• Assists in educating student athletes in nutrition, health, and weight management
• Provides treatment to relieve soreness, strains, and bruises
• Assists and provides “hands-on” experience and supervision for student athletic trainers
• Renders first aid to injured players, including artificial respiration, cleaning and bandaging wounds, and applying heat and cold to promote healing
• Calls physician for injured persons as required
• Wraps ankles, fingers, or wrists of athletes in synthetic skin, protecting gauze, and adhesive tape to support muscles and ligaments
• Treats chronic minor injuries and related disabilities to maintain athletes’ performance
• Gives treatments as prescribed by health service
• May relieve or assist site nurse in student health office
• Supervises students enrolled in athletic training classes during after-school practices and events

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university, including curriculum to qualify for National Athletic Trainers Association certification
• Knowledge of Word processing and Excel software; ability to learn and use specialized software
• Familiarity with modern training techniques and practices, athletic equipment and supplies, general safety issues, and CIF requirements
• Ability to read, analyze, and understand scientific and technical journals related to sports medicine; interpret legal documents, physician and physical therapist orders
• Ability to respond to inquiries or complaints from students, parents, coaches, and other employees
• Ability to explain doctor’s orders to students, parents, and coaches
• Flexibility to work under time constraints
• Ability to assess injuries, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with abstract and concrete variables
• Ability to calculate proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume; apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk, hear, and taste or smell
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, high or precarious places, extreme cold, and extreme heat
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud

Schedule

Athletic trainers are required to attend all athletic practices, all home athletic events, and all home and away football games.

Additional Notes

Must demonstrate professionalism, flexibility, diplomacy, and patience in frequent interactions with physicians, physical therapists, teachers, administrators, students, parents, and coaches.