Transition to Practice- Certified Athletic Trainer

NCAA; Lewiston (ME); On-site; USD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading collegiate sports organization is looking for a Certified Athletic Trainer to support student-athletes in maintaining their health. This role involves injury prevention, evaluation, and rehabilitation services within a unique transition program. Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree and relevant certifications. Opportunity to enhance clinical skills in a dynamic sports environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.
• NATA Certification is necessary.
• Clinical experience at college level preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with physicians and evaluate athletic injuries.
• Design treatment plans for injuries and document athlete progress.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to HIPAA standards.

Skills

Injury prevention

Rehabilitation

Evaluation of athletic injuries

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training

National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Certification

Maine Licensure

First Aid and CPR Certification

Job description

Transition to Practice- Certified Athletic Trainer

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Details

Posted: 20-Jun-25

Location: Lewiston, Maine

Type: Full-time

Categories

Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine - Athletic Training

Sector

Collegiate Sports

Required Education

4 Year Degree

The Bates Sports Medicine Department and Central Maine Healthcare have designed a unique eleven- month Transition to Practice program to offer newly credentialed athletic training professionals an opportunity to broaden and enhance their clinical and professional skills as they continue to develop their practice. The program will allow the newly certified athletic trainer to meet these goals through various responsibilities.

Prevention of Athletic Injuries: - Work collaboratively with Bates Health Services to review pre-participation sport physicals to screen for orthopedic problems or issues that could/may affect the student–athletes safe participation. - Provide injury prevention measures such as appliances, braces and devices for control of joint motion and limb protections. - Ensure proper equipment use and fitting such as helmets, shoulder pads, braces, mouth pieces. The use of tape or wraps. May also assist in the selection and fitting of protective equipment.

Evaluation: - Evaluate athletic injuries through a subjective history, objective findings through observation, palpation, special tests, manual muscle testing and range of motion tests. - Formulate assessments and execute plans of action that best aid/fit student–athletes’ health needs and determines student-athletes’ safe return to sport participation. - Collaborate with the team physician to utilize concussion assessment tool(s) in determining the safe return of a concussed student-athlete.

Treatment/Rehabilitation: - Use discretion in designing and developing treatment or reconditioning/rehab plans of athletic injuries. - Use treatment modalities such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, hydrotherapy and therapeutic exercise. - Recognize and manipulates conditions which require special taping, bracing, padding, either preventative or rehabilitative. - Refer student-athletes to external medical care based on student-athletes’ needs following the evaluation and assessment of the ATC. - Provide regular injury reports and reports status and progress of injured athletes to team physician and coaches.

Documentation: - Compile with policies and rules of Bates Athletics, NESCAC and the NCAA related to medical care for student-athletes. - Maintain confidential documentation and record keeping of injury reports and progress notes on all active student-athletes. - Ensure that all files are up-to-date to facilitate insurance billing and payments and for any future medical or legal claims. - Adhere to HIPPA standards in protecting student-athletes’ medical privacy.

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 works directly with student-athletes to provide care, education, 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.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training or other health related field (biology, nutrition, physical education).
• Master’s degree in Athletic Training or other health related field preferred.
• National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Certification.
• Maine Licensure or must be able to apply for Maine Licensure within 90 days of employment.
• First Aid and CPR Certification per NATABOC guidelines.
• Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) Training.
• Participation in NATA continuing education programs to maintain certification(s).
  
  

Experience

• Clinical experience at the college level is preferred but not required.
• Familiarity with the academic environment and higher education, preferably the liberal arts.
  
  

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About Bates College

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.

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