Athletic Trainer

Cincinnati Children's•Greendale, WI

40d•$51,085 - $63,960•Onsite

About The Position

The Athletic Trainer functions as a professional athletic trainer under the direct supervision of a Physician. They provide a comprehensive treatment approach to assigned athletes/patients, incorporating appropriate evaluation techniques, implementing thorough, functionally based treatment programs, and providing appropriate discharge planning including patient education/training. The role involves making appropriate referrals, facilitating coordination and communication between patient, physician, and physical therapist, and performing procedures, collecting and analyzing data to make decisions regarding patient care. This includes initial screening, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, care, reassessment, and discontinuation of care. The Athletic Trainer will formulate, maintain, support, monitor, and modify patient-specific plans for care, treatment, and rehabilitation. They will also serve as a department-based role model for policies, procedures, and patient care, assisting others in setting patient care and department priorities while considering self and others' education and maintaining a cohesive environment. The position involves collecting clinical data, following algorithms, decision trees, and protocols, and matching formal knowledge with clinical events to make appropriate decisions. Documentation of the plan of care, care delivered, and patient and family outcomes is crucial. The role requires focusing on the usual and customary needs of the patient and family, anticipating future needs, basing care on standards and protocols, maintaining a safe physical environment, and acknowledging death as a potential outcome. Age-specific concepts are consistently integrated into patient care. The Athletic Trainer will use self-management support to develop care goals and actions through partnerships with patients and families, facilitate patient and family learning through structured education, and use teach-back to evaluate effectiveness. They will recognize routine or obvious changing patient situations and seek help in unusual care situations. The role involves seeing the pieces or components, seeing patients and families within the isolated environment of the unit, and seeing oneself as a key resource to support the family through the healthcare experience through care coordination. The Athletic Trainer will sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards, support leadership in meeting compliance efforts, and monitor and comply with safety and departmental policies and procedures. Ensuring individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis is also part of the role, along with being mindful of CCHMC's processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicating safety and compliance concerns. In the clinical setting, the Athletic Trainer will assist a physician in providing concussion education to patients and families and perform delegated clinical/clerical/administrative tasks. They will contribute to department/center program development through involvement in special projects and may coordinate communication and ATC assignments for sporting events. Demonstrating consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice is expected. The role requires maintaining currency in the field through continuing education, literature, and seminars, implementing this knowledge into the Sports Med clinical area, and using self-appraisal performance review and peer review. Openness to coaching and mentoring from others is important, as is facilitating learning by assisting with peer and student learning experiences. Collaboration with department managers, interprofessional councils, and magnet reps to identify, share, implement, and evaluate safety best practices is also a responsibility. The Athletic Trainer will collect and interpret complex patient data, make clinical judgments based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture, and recognize patterns and trends by focusing on key elements while eliminating extraneous details. They will document and teach others to document the plan of care, care delivered, and patient/family outcomes. Responding to subtle patient/family changes, engaging with each unique patient/family compassionately, tailoring caring practices to individuality, recognizing the importance of a healing environment, and promoting safety throughout patient/family transitions are key aspects of the role. Adapting educational programs to meet learning needs and styles, using teach-back strategies, and coordinating education with other healthcare team members are also required.

Requirements

Bachelor degree in related field.
May require clinical license, certification or training
0+ years of work experience in a related job discipline

Responsibilities

Function as a professional athletic trainer under the direct supervision of a Physician.
Provide a comprehensive treatment approach to assigned athletes/patients.
Incorporate appropriate evaluation techniques.
Implement thorough, functionally based treatment programs.
Provide appropriate discharge planning including patient education/training.
Make appropriate referrals to other resources.
Facilitate coordination and communication between patient from physician to physical therapist.
Perform procedures, collect data, analyze data and make decisions regarding patient care, including initial screening, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, care, reassessment and discontinuation of care.
Formulate, maintain, support, monitor and modify a patient-specific plan for care, treatment and rehabilitation based on the patient's assessment.
Plan and coordinate care, treatment and rehabilitation for discharged patients.
Serve as a department-based role model and resource for policies, procedures, and patient care.
Assist others in setting patient care and department priorities, keeping in mind the education of self and others while maintaining a cohesive environment.
Collects clinical data; follow algorithms, decision trees, and protocols.
Matches formal knowledge with clinical events to make appropriate decisions; uses available resources as needed.
Documents plan of care, care delivered, and patient and family outcomes.
Focuses on the usual and customary needs of the patient and family; anticipates future needs; bases care on standards and protocols; maintains a safe physical environment; acknowledges death as a potential outcome.
Consistently integrates age specific concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.
Using self-management support, develops care goals and actions through partnerships with patients and families.
Facilitates patient and family learning by providing structured education based on the plan of care goals, and the needs of the patient and family; uses teach back to evaluate effectiveness.
Recognizes routine or obvious changing patient situation; in unusual care situations, seeks help with needed to identify patient problem.
Sees the pieces or components; sees patient and family within the isolated environment of the unit; sees self as key resource to support the family through the healthcare experience through care coordination.
Sustains a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
Supports leadership in efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital.
Monitors and complies with safety and departmental policies and procedures.
Ensures individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis.
Is mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicates safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.
In the clinical setting, will assist a physician in providing concussion education to patients and families and perform delegated clinical/clerical/administrative tasks.
Contributes to department/center program development through involvement in special projects.
May coordinate communication and ATC assignments for sporting events for professional/amateur teams.
Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.
Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature and seminars, implement this knowledge into Sports Med clinical area, Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review.
Demonstrates openness to coaching and mentoring from others.
Facilitates learning by assisting with peer and student learning experiences.
Works with department managers, interprofessional councils, and magnet reps to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.
Collect and interpret complex patient data; makes clinical judgments based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture; recognizes patterns and trends by focusing on key elements while eliminating extraneous details.
Documents and teaches others to document the plan of care, care delivered, and patient/family outcomes.
Responds to subtle patient/family changes; engages with each unique patient/family in a compassionate manner; tailors caring practices to the individuality of patient/family; recognizes the importance of a healing environment and tailors the environment to meet the needs of the patient/family; promotes safety throughout patient/family transitions along the healthcare continuum.
Using self-mgmt. support, develops care goals and actions through partnerships with patients/families.
Adapts educational programs to meet the learning needs and styles of the patient/family; uses teach back strategies to evaluate effectiveness.
Coordinates education with other members of the health care team.