Assistant Athletic Trainer, Football
- Employer
- Rice University
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- May 18, 2023
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Student Affairs, Athletics
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Position Summary
The assistant athletic trainer, football develops and maintains a high degree of total health care for student-athletes. This person is responsible for the prevention, care, and treatment of athletic injuries as well as supervision of equipment and physical therapy modalities. The assistant athletics trainer assists the head athletic trainer in the total health care of the Division I Intercollegiate program as directed.
The ideal candidate will have experience working with a football program at the collegiate level and will embrace being part of a team of athletic trainers tasked with ensuring the health and wellbeing of Rice’s student athletes.
Essential Functions
- Works with student athletes to provide care, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries and illnesses both on campus and at game venues
- Collaborates frequently with physical therapists regarding rehabilitation progress and return-to-play planning of injured athletes
- Provides injury reports on a daily basis, and reports status and progress of injured athletes to team physicians, managers and coaches on an ongoing basis
- Maintains a safe environment, medical supplies and emergency readiness for athletes at all sanctioned practices and events at home and away venues
- Maintains athletic training and satellite facilities
- Maintains confidentiality of medical information, adherence to regulatory requirements and compliance with team physician guidelines
- Serves as first responder in emergency situations
- Stays abreast of current training room procedures
- Performs all other duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 1 year of athletic training experience
- Skills Required
- Good communication, administrative, time management and interpersonal skills
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically, Word and Excel
- Familiarity with electronic medical record keeping
- Working knowledge of HIPAA requirements
- NATABOC certification; CPR/AED/First Aid Certifications
- Must possess (or have the ability to obtain one within 30 days of hire) and maintain a valid Texas driver's license with no more than three moving violations and/or at fault accidents within the past 36 months, and no convictions or deferred dispositions for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) or Driving Under the Influence (DUI) within the past five years
- In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year for year basis may be substituted
- Master’s Degree
- Athletic training experience in an intercollegiate level and working with collegiate football
- Division 1 experience
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Rice Mission and Values
Mission and Values | Rice University
Rice University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with commitment to diversity at all levels, and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.
Faculty and staff are expected (but not required) to have completed a full vaccination series for COVID-19 (currently defined as full course COVID-19 Vaccine (typically two shots of a WHO-approved COVID-19 Vaccine or one J&J) and a COVID-19 booster. Rice does not require documentation for COVID 19 vaccination at this time for faculty and staff. More information can be found here: https://coronavirus.rice.edu/policies
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