Head Football Athletic Trainer SHSU

About the role

The Head Football Athletic Trainer serves as the primary healthcare provider for the NCAA Division I football program at SHSU and is responsible for the prevention, evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and return-to-participation management of injuries and illnesses affecting football student-athletes.

Responsibilities

The position collaborates with team physicians, sports medicine personnel, strength and conditioning, nutrition, mental health, performance, coaching, equipment, and athletics administration to deliver comprehensive, evidence-based, student-athlete centered healthcare.

• Clinical Care: Serve as the primary athletic trainer assigned to the football program, preventing, evaluating, managing, treating, and rehabilitating athletic injuries and illnesses.
• Practice, Competition, and Travel Coverage: Provide medical coverage for all football practices, home and away competitions, preseason camp, postseason events, and other required team activities.
• Healthcare Administration: Coordinate annual pre-participation examinations, medical clearances, screening requirements, and ongoing health surveillance.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Serve as the primary sports medicine liaison to the head football coach and football operations staff while preserving medical autonomy and confidentiality.
• Emergency Preparedness and Risk Management: Develop, implement, rehearse, and annually review football Emergency Action Plans for all practice, competition, and training venues.

Requirements

• Education: Master's degree in Athletic Training, Sports Medicine, Kinesiology or related field required.
• License/Certifications: Current Board Certification (BOC) as Athletic Trainer required, Current Texas athletic training license required, or immediately eligible, and Current CPR/AED or BLS certification required.
• Experience: Three years of collegiate athletic training experience, including significant football coverage required, with NCAA Division I football training and supervisory experience preferred.
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to exercise independent clinical judgement and manage confidential health information.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

Frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, standing, and walking, with occasional reaching, bending, squatting, climbing, kneeling, and twisting. Work is outdoors in heat, humidity, cold, rain, and other challenging environments, with the ability to work early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, extended hours, preseason camps, postseason competitions, and travel extensively by air and ground.