Athletic Trainer, Certified - Surgical Services

Hendersonville, NC

Job Description

Description

Job Summary  

The Certified Athletic Trainer is responsible for providing sports medicine services for the prevention and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. This position will perform both outreach and periodic clinical duties for the sports medicine program including, but not limited to, provision of athletic health care services to assigned schools, evaluation, diagnosis, management, treatment, rehabilitation and intervention of injuries and illness, tracking and reporting of athletic injuries as well as performing clinical duties as assigned. 

Responsibilities And Scope 

  • Casts patients, providing splints, braces, crutches and other DME and provide patient education for these items. Staple or suture removal, preparing injections, taking vital signs and stocking and cleaning rooms.  

  • Educates patients on home exercise programs and therapeutic exercise. Communicates effectively with patients and staff members.  

  • Rooms and obtains the necessary patient information to update the patient history and chart. Reviews clinic schedules and charts to verify all of the appropriate test results or patient information related to the appointment have been received.  

  • Performs thorough medical history and appropriate physical examination on patients with appropriate documentation. Orders appropriate x-ray, lab or other medical tests as indicated.  

Qualifications 

Required 

  • Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) certification  

  • Licensed as an Athletic Trainer by the North Carolina Board of Athletic Trainer Examiners (or license eligible).  

  • Basic Life Support (BLS) 

PDN-9c988409-55ae-4ead-8d48-2e409ee68a6b

Description

Job Summary  

The Certified Athletic Trainer is responsible for providing sports medicine services for the prevention and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. This position will perform both outreach and periodic clinical duties for the sports medicine program including, but not limited to, provision of athletic health care services to assigned schools, evaluation, diagnosis, management, treatment, rehabilitation and intervention of injuries and illness, tracking and reporting of athletic injuries as well as performing clinical duties as assigned. 

Responsibilities And Scope 

  • Casts patients, providing splints, braces, crutches and other DME and provide patient education for these items. Staple or suture removal, preparing injections, taking vital signs and stocking and cleaning rooms.  

  • Educates patients on home exercise programs and therapeutic exercise. Communicates effectively with patients and staff members.  

  • Rooms and obtains the necessary patient information to update the patient history and chart. Reviews clinic schedules and charts to verify all of the appropriate test results or patient information related to the appointment have been received.  

  • Performs thorough medical history and appropriate physical examination on patients with appropriate documentation. Orders appropriate x-ray, lab or other medical tests as indicated.  

Qualifications 

Required 

  • Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) certification  

  • Licensed as an Athletic Trainer by the North Carolina Board of Athletic Trainer Examiners (or license eligible).  

  • Basic Life Support (BLS) 

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About UNC Health

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research. 

 UNC Health and its 33,000 employees, continue to serve as North Carolina’s Health Care System, caring for patients from all 100 counties and beyond our borders. We continue to leverage the world class research conducted in the UNC School of Medicine, translating that innovation to life-saving and life-changing therapies, procedures, and techniques for the patients who rely on us.

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Athletic Trainer, Certified - Surgical Services
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Hendersonville, NC
Jul 24, 2024
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