Certified Athletic Trainer

About the role

Serve as the authority, consultant, and practitioner for a comprehensive program of musculoskeletal injury prevention, physical performance enhancement, and acute musculoskeletal injury care and reconditioning for all students assigned to Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes (RTC).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and provide RTC-level oversight of the physical conditioning program.
• Instruct RTC staff in functional movement patterns, exercise physiology, stretching, and exercises, especially those related to combat and/or military functions.
• Attend and participate in physical training/combat conditioning sessions, providing immediate feedback to training company staff on exercise execution.
• Cookordinate and provide injury prevention instruction to RTC staff, ensuring RTC facilities and equipment are in place to minimize injury risk, analyze injury data and patterns at RTC, and provide controls in response to injury pattern changes.
• Develop and conduct a training presentation to RTC staff.
• Cookordinate with the clinic to prevent, assess, treat and provide reconditioning for injuries sustained during rigorous military training at RTC.
• Serve as an advisor on training environments, screen injuries as they occur, make recommendations regarding the removal of Recruits from a part of training or the entire exercise.
• Aid in the injury recognition process to include recognition of severity of injury, rendering initial treatment, performing initial examination, and referral.
• Provide musculoskeletal injury assessment and treatment including, but not limited to strength and conditioning plans, and the use of appropriate modalities and physical agents.
• Maintain communication with instructors and staff to discuss injury severity and disposition options while coordinating with a physician supervisor, per memorandum of understanding between FHCC and RTC.
• Serve as a member of and make recommendations to the RTC injury prevention committee, this committee is charted to ensure that physical training throughout entry-level training (ELT) is progressive in nature and supports development of Recruits across the ELT continuum.
• Assist in the planning and coordination of systemic new, existing or follow-on research studies related to musculoskeletal injury prevention and care.

Qualifications

• Must possess a Bachelors or Master’s degree from an accredited professional athletic training program by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE).
• Must be possess a NATABOC Certified Athletic Trainer certification.
• Must possess a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification or equivalent from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
• Must be licensed to practice Athletic Training in the State of Illinois.
• Must be First Aid/CPR/AED Certified.
• Possess experience with computer programs designed to capture and track injury information for research and analysis required, specifically AHLTA, CHCS, MMRS, and Microsoft office products and other database software.
• Must be able to work independently, be capable of identifying problems/issues, and be able to design and develop appropriate treatment plans based on understanding of job requirements, broad guidance, and own initiative to achieve a comprehensive solution without regular direct supervision.
• Must possess and demonstrate critical thinking skills to modify and adapt established methods of aforementioned disciplines.
• Must be able to read and speak fluent English.
• Must be able to pass a federal background check.