Highlighted Perks! $1500 Sign-On Bonus Relocation Expenses Offered Competitive salary, 24 vacation days, plus sick and personal
A unique opportunity to join an elite athletic program that fosters a collaborative team approach in how they deliver care and services to DIII student athletes! With 40% of the student body participating in varsity level sports, this position offers trainers the ability to work full time year round. Additional perks include benefits, a sensational retirement package, paid time off, and the opportunity to work with dedicated professionals who value a real team atmosphere.
The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) supports intercollegiate athletics and is responsible for the care and wellbeing of student-athletes through the provision of athletic training services including testing, evaluation, assignment of training regimens, and treatment of injuries, rehabilitation and medical referrals. The ATC is a health care professional who works directly with student-athletes to provide care, education, prevention, counseling, evaluation, treatment and rehab of athletic injuries and illnesses both on campus and at game venues.
The ATC must follow the athletic philosophy consistent with that of the Bates Athletic Department, NESCAC and NCAA. The Office of Athletic Performance celebrates and honors difference, engages students of all backgrounds, and strives to ensure accessible services for all student-athletes.
Under Maine §3477. Person Mandated to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation, the Certified Athletic Trainer is a mandated reporter of known or suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation of an adult if they believe the adult is incapacitated or dependent.
Under Maine §4011-A. Reporting of suspected abuse or neglect, the law also states that certain people, like an Athletic Trainer, must report to the Department of Health and Human Services, Child Protection if they know or have reasonable cause to suspect that a child has been or is likely to be abused or neglected.
Evaluation of Athletic Injuries:
Evaluates athletic injuries through a subjective history, objective findings through observation, palpation, special tests, manual muscle testing and range of motion tests. Formulates assessments and executes plans of action that best aid/fit student–athletes’ health needs and determines student-athletes’ safe return to sport participation. Collaborates with the team physician to utilize concussion assessment tool(s) in determining the safe return of a concussed student-athlete.
Treatment/Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries:
Uses discretion in designing and developing treatment or reconditioning/rehab plans of athletic injuries. Uses treatment modalities such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, hydrotherapy and therapeutic exercise. Recognizes and manipulates conditions which require special taping, bracing, padding, either preventative or rehabilitative. Refers student-athletes to external medical care based on student-athletes’ needs following the evaluation and assessment of the ATC. Provides daily injury reports and reports status and progress of injured athletes to team physician and coaches.
Prevention of Athletic Injuries:
Works collaboratively with the team physician and associated health care providers to review pre-participation sport physicals to screen for orthopedic problems or issues that could/may affect the student–athletes’ safe participation. Provides injury prevention measures, may assist in the selection, fitting, and proper use of protective equipment. Specializes in patient education to prevent injury and re-injury. Serves as a primary coordinator of care and communication for student-athletes between medical care providers and Bates Health Services. Cooperates and collaborates with sports medicine staff, Bates Health Services, nutrition staff, academic support services, student-athletes to ensure proper communication of student-athlete needs or concerns. Coordinates and assists in scheduling appointments with physicians and/or other medical professionals/disciplines for student-athletes.
Compliance and Documentation:
Complies with policies and rules of Bates Athletics, NESCAC and the NCAA related to medical care for student-athletes. Maintains confidential documentation and record keeping of injury reports and progress notes on all active student-athletes. Ensures that each file is up-to-date to facilitate insurance billing and payments and for any future medical or legal claims. Adheres to HIPPA standards in protecting student-athletes’ medical privacy.
Other:
Attends various sport practices and competitions (home and away). Provides water for hydration during practices and games. Assists in arranging transportation as needed for injured athletes. Assists with clean up and maintenance of athletic training room(s) and related facilities to help prevent disease transmission and to ensure that equipment works properly when needed. Assists in identifying and purchasing equipment and supplies for the Office of Athletic Performance. Understands and models Department of Athletics philosophy and goals as set forth by the Director of Athletics and the Assistant Director of Athletics for Athletic Performance.
Athletic training experience at the collegiate level.
2+ years athletic trainer experience at the collegiate level preferred
Familiarity with the academic environment and higher education, preferably the liberal arts.
About
Bates is one of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges, with a long history of commitments to principles of human dignity and diversity.
Since its founding by abolitionists in 1855, Bates has welcomed men and women from diverse racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Bates was the first co-educational college in New England, and some of its earliest students were former slaves. The college continues to live that promise of inclusiveness.
Bates offers a rigorous and highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty, and community. Bates engages the forces — intellectual trends, demographic changes, and technology — that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.
Bates has highly competitive admission, graduates over 90% of its entering students, and over half of its alumni earn graduate degrees. Bates has 1,700 students, 200 faculty members and 550 staff and administrative employees.
The college is proud of its deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community, Maine’s second largest urban area, with a population of approximately 65,000. Bates is located on a beau...tiful, 109-acre, traditional New England campus in Lewiston, a small city with an entrepreneurial climate, a lively arts scene, and a dynamic business community. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland, 140 miles north of Boston, and 350 miles north of New York City.
