Athletic Trainer, Full-Time, Days
About The Position
Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Crown Point , located in Crown Point, Indiana, as an Athletic Trainer . UChicago Medicine is an integrated academic and community health system with multiple primary medical facilities within the surrounding suburbs of Chicago. UChicago Medicine, Crown Point is a two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana, the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana. The Athletic Trainer in the Sports Medicine Section of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Chicago Crown Point supports physicians and care team, focusing on the prevention, evaluation, management, and treatment of injuries. ATC directly supports the physicians by coordinating care and communicating with patients. Responsibilities include assessing vital signs, documenting patient visits, and assisting with patient mobility and dressing. The trainer also ensures cleanliness and organization in designated areas and manages paperwork. Additionally, they handle insurance-related authorizations under the guidance of the Nurse Manager.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required from Athletic Training program
- Licensure as Athletic Trainer in State of Indiana
- BLS Certification through The American Heart Association
Nice To Haves
- 2 years of Athletic Training experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the coordination of daily clinic schedules for all providers while monitoring workflows to maintain the clinic's operational efficiency.
- Prepare charts to ensure that providers have the necessary results, images, and medical records for each office visit.
- Manage EPIC in-basket messages, emails, patient follow-up phone calls, and related paperwork.
- Deliver high-quality patient care by conducting initial assessments and screenings during the rooming process.
- Document referral sources and gather emergency and caregiver information for each patient.
- Provide a therapeutic exercise plan, patient education materials; follow up planning, and referrals.
- Carries out all prescribed treatments and recommendations by the physician, including assisting in the exam/procedure room with patient positioning, prepping, draping during in office procedures.
- Assist with examination, procedures and treatments (suture removal, fit patients with braces, crutches and other associated durable medical equipment, applying casts).
- Performs appropriate physical and/or development assessments.
- Designs and implements plans of care under physicians’ direction.
- Documents evaluations and plans of care according to department policy including goals, modifications of treatment plans and individual’s response to treatment.
- Evaluates and revises plan of care based on changes in patient status and the individual’s response to treatment.
- Delivers physical care to athlete following medical direction including monitoring of individual’s response and results during care.
- Educates/instructs patients regarding their medical condition, treatment plan medications, and other appropriate information.
- Recognizes and escalates emergencies to physicians.
- Review therapy exercises, stretching and other patient education with patient and family.
- Documents appropriately in-patient chart.
- Perform other duties as assigned by Physician and Nurse Manager
Benefits
- UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits.
- Review the full complement of benefit options for eligible roles at Benefits - UChicago Medicine
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
