Athletic Trainer: Injury Prevention & Rehab Specialist

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Lititz (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System is seeking an Athletic Trainer to provide injury prevention, clinical evaluation, emergency care, and rehabilitation for patients in various settings. You will collaborate with physicians and ensure the highest standards of care.

The position requires a Master's Degree in Athletic Training and a valid PA State Athletic Training license. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills are essential in this role, alongside a commitment to maintaining a safe and clean working environment.

Qualifications

• One year of experience in a traditional setting.
• Clinical experience in outpatient office.
• Valid PA State Athletic Training license.

Responsibilities

• Provide injury prevention and clinical evaluation.
• Act as liaison between customers and physicians.
• Conduct wound care and treatment.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Clinical evaluation

Emergency care

Injury prevention

Education

Master’s Degree in Athletic Training

Graduate of CAATE approved Athletic Training Program

Tools

Basic Cardiac Life Support certification

Job description

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Position Summary:

• Athletic Trainers ATs work under the supervision of a physician to provide injury prevention, clinical evaluation and diagnosis, immediate and emergency care, treatment and rehabilitation, while demonstrating professional and organizational skills to promote the health and well-being to the patients they serve. They may work in the clinic or outreach setting at the highest level of their licensure and conduct themselves in accordance with the professional standards set forth by the BOC and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians.
• Physician Relations - Ensures staff appropriately interact with physicians. As appropriate, seeks physician input on necessary clinical matters.
• Will help identify opportunities, build relationships with, and help secure additional secondary school, college, youth program, and or event contracts.
• Review quality and appropriateness of services delivered for effectiveness and efficiency using predetermined quality assurance criteria.
• Act as liaison between customers, patients, support staff and or physicians.
• Responsible for wound care and wound dressing.
• Help maintain a clean, comfortable, orderly and safe working environment.
• Maintains valid Driver’s License
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Able to effectively communicate with peers and leaders within the practice, health system, and community.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• One 1 year of experience in traditional setting.
• Clinical experience in outpatient office.
• COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS
• ATTENTION CONCENTRATION - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:
• The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
• NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:
• A large portion of this position requires reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible.
• PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING - The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:
• The position requires much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.
• APTITUDES: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
• Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job; to be subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
• Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
• Planning and control: Ability to identify task requirements and monitor progress toward accomplishment.
• Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
• EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS
• Equipment Tools: Computer, Phone, Copier, Printer, Fax, Office Supplies Grinder, whirlpool, cast cutter, heat gun, telephone, intercom, dictation equipment, copier, CRT, ultrasound, electrical stimulator, TENS, bicycle, treadmill, hydrocollator, computerized exercise equipment, fluidotherapy, phoresor, Goniometer, B.P. cuff, stethoscope, saw, scissors, reflex hammer, syringe, scalpel hemostat.
• Software: Microsoft Office Products, EPIC, Healthy Roster.
• PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
• Rarely 0-10%; Occasionally 11-35%; Frequently 36-70%; Continuously 71-100%
• Body Position Movement:
• Sit: Occasionally
• Stand: Frequently
• Walk: Frequently
• Bend: Occasionally
• Push: Frequently
• Pull: Frequently
• Kneel Squat: Occasionally
• Reach: Frequently
• Twist: Occasionally
• Balance: Occasionally
• Climb: Occasionally
• Lifting: Degree of physical exertion is: Moderate, exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Sensory Abilities specifically required:
• Vision
• Hearing
• Touch Feeling
• PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
• WORKING CONDITIONS: Position involves exposure to the following harmful elements:
• Blood borne Pathogens
• Extreme Noise Levels
• Extreme Temperatures
• Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely.
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Minimum Required Qualifications:
• One 1 year of experience in traditional setting.
• Clinical experience in outpatient office.
• ATTENTION CONCENTRATION - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:
• The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
• NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:
• A large portion of this position requires reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible.
• PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING - The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:
• The position requires much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.
• The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
• Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job; to be subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
• Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
• Planning and control: Ability to identify task requirements and monitor progress toward accomplishment.
• Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
  
  

Credentials:

• Maintains valid PA State Athletic Training license (Required)
• Maintains Basic Cardiac Life Support certification through the American Heart Association (Required) within 30 days of employment
• BOC (Board of Certification) Certified (Required)
• Maintains CEU requirements to stay in compliance with BOC requirements
  
  

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Graduate of CAATE approved Athletic Training Program (Required)
• Master’s Degree in Athletic Training; unless employee graduated prior to 2022 (Required)
  
  

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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