Reconditioning Therapist / Strength & Conditioning Coach
About The Position
The New Jersey Devils Athlete Care Department delivers the highest quality of medical and performance services to all, fostering deep, caring relationships as we innovate, grow, and learn to keep athletes safe and transform talent into excellence. Movement and function are crucial underpinnings to athletic performance ability. Our performance methodology seeks to maximize athletic development and create a transferrable impact on hockey performance. This role will involve building upon a progressive medical and performance methodology, instructing and delivering strength and conditioning-related services primarily to our injured players and secondarily to the remainder of the team. This role will be expected to incorporate objective measures to proactively evaluate the recovery process back to full participation and assist the medical staff with delivering tailored daily programs.
Requirements
- Doctorate of Physical Therapy
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Minimum 5 years of post-professional experience
- Professional sports experience required; hockey experience highly encouraged
- Experienced with technologies and data management systems to ensure the secure and efficient storage of monitoring and evaluation data
Responsibilities
- Lead strength and conditioning programming for injured athletes
- Assist with rehabilitative care to healthy and injured players, as needed
- Lead individual, player-specific daily programming in alignment with medical and performance needs that align with global strength and conditioning programming for individual players
- Assist with team-wide weight room strength interventions
- Assist with nutritional support under the direction of team dietitian as requested/required by VP of Athlete Care
- Assist with player-specific assessments for health and rehabilitative purposes
- Provide a high quality, professional and thorough service across all aspects of your general responsibilities
- Complete all specific tasks delegated to you by the Medical Director or Vice President of Athlete Care in a timely and efficient manner
- Yearly review of injury management and return to competition protocols with respect to the most recent evidence
- Monthly review of all specific injury management at the club with emphasis on points of improvement
- Contribution to the development and maintenance of an Operations Manual for the medical and performance department
- Provide education in-services as required on topics suggested by the Vice President, Athlete Care Services, including at least one presentation on the views of an external professional in a field of interest to the group
- Provide regular updates on journal articles of interest to the group
- Provide summaries of relevant information to the group on any conferences or courses attended during the season
- Maintain a record of Continuing Professional Development
- Raise any areas of potential grievance or opportunity with the manager at the earliest possible stage
- Maintain suitable levels of personal fitness appropriate for the physical nature of this role
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pretax Transportation Benefit
- Generous Parental Leave policies
- 401K (with a company match after 1 year of service)
- Generous Paid Time Off policies
- 13 Paid Holidays
- ½ Day Summer Fridays
- Complimentary or Discounted Sports & Concert Tickets
- On Site Fitness Rooms
- Other League & Partner Discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
