Professional Athletic Trainer - Full Time - New Orleans

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Job Description

This job, in addition to normal duties of an Athletic Trainer, under general supervision works in a specialized capacity for a professional sports organization requiring additional responsibilities related to professional training camp, combine activities and standard offseason programming set forth by each specific professional sports league.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Education

• Required - Bachelor's degree in athletic training.
• Preferred - Master's degree in athletic training or Allied Health.

Work Experience

• Required - 3 years of experience evaluating and assessing patient injury.
• Preferred - 5 years of experience evaluating and assessing patient injury.

Certifications

• Required - Current athletic trainer license in state of practice.
• BLS Certification from the American Heart Association.
• Preferred - BOC Certification for the Athletic Trainer.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

• Proficiency in using computers, software, and web-based applications.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, and team building skills and ability to interact with potential patients, clinic staff, physicians and departments in a professional manner.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task with high degree of attention to detail and bring tasks to completion.

Job Duties

• Adheres to standards set forth by the professional sports league and covers all required events in additional to games and practices, not limited to training camps, combines, offseason programming.
• Prepares age and prognosis appropriate prevention, treatment and rehabilitation under the supervision of the physician.
• Performs on-field immediate care for injury, recommending physician or therapy follow up.
• Maintains injury log per contractual agreement and documents per policy and procedure manual.
• Restocks supplies and maintains inventory in accordance with budgets and administrative direction.
• Sets up equipment for training camps, practices, gamedays from direction of professional team administration.
• Adapts behavior to the specific patient population, including but not limited to respect for privacy, method of introduction to the patient, adapting explanation of services or procedures to be performed, requesting permissions and communication style.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Very Heavy Work - Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Heavy Work.
• Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Work Environment

• Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue, but exposure or potential for exposure may occur.
• The incumbent works with patients who have known or suspected communicable diseases and may enter isolation rooms.
• There may be an occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.
• Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ochsner Health does not consider an individual an applicant until they have formally applied to the open position on this careers website. Please refer to the job description to determine whether the position you are interested in is remote or on-site. Individuals who reside in and will work from the following areas are not eligible for remote work position: Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C.

Accessibility

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.