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Job Summary:
MedStar Health is looking for a Director of Athletic Training Services to join our team!
The Director of Athletic Training Services position assist MedStar Health Physical Therapy leaders, and leadership across the interdisciplinary MedStar Health Sports Medicine program, with strategic growth, evolution, program development, service enhancement, selected physician extender services, and targeted community outreach of our certified athletic training (ATC) services. This position also provides direct supervision, and clinical mentoring, to ATC's. This includes having supervisory oversight of multiple locations, venues, or ATC clinical practice environments to coordinate programs and services across large regions. Special emphasis will be placed on tactical sports medicine-based community outreach initiatives, working closely with physicians and internal and external leaders.
Join one of the largest healthcare systems in the Baltimore-Washington metro region, also recognized as one of the "Healthiest Maryland Businesses". Apply today and learn how MedStar Health can be your next great career move!
Primary Duties:
Selects, trains, and assigns staff. Develops standards of performance, evaluates, and conducts performance management planning. Makes recommendations for personnel actions. Fosters ongoing communication with subordinates to review programs, provide feedback, discuss new developments or opportunities, exchange information, support associate enrichment, and promote employee job satisfaction. Collaborates with leadership and appropriate physicians, develops department goals, objectives, policies, and procedures. Provides leadership/support to achieve program goals. Provides education and mentoring to staff and students. Supervises, monitors, promotes quality improvement, and enhances growth opportunities for Certified Athletic Trainers.
Maintains relationships with other departments and participates in multi-disciplinary outreach initiatives. In collaboration with MHPT leadership, develops and recommends department operating budget, managing resources accordingly. Ensures compliance with policies, procedures, and governmental/accreditation regulations. Manages daily operations with consistent focus on early and expedient access to care, including ensuring appropriate staffing, controlling expenses, managing schedules, and assuring efficient processes.
Completes scheduling, coordination, and execution of athletic training coverage including staffing, physician intervention, support of other departments, supplies, services, and transportation. Collaborates with the Athletic Training team and Physical Therapy Program Specialists on the design and administration of sports medicine services for outside groups, clubs, and organizations. Advances professional knowledge to ensure quality care and program excellence. Enhances growth and development, enriching personal knowledge and skills through participation in educational programs, in-services, workshops, and independent learning experiences.
Prevents, recognizes, evaluates athletes/patients, identifies limitations, injuries, and illnesses. Determines how specific problems interfere with function and/or performance. Targets critical issues. Evaluates results to refer to MedStar physicians and therapists, who collaborate to establish a plan of treatment/care. Utilizes standard techniques to evaluate, plan, coordinate, and document applicable plans of care/treatment. Determines an individual's readiness to participate in athletics. Demonstrates knowledge and skills in use of rehabilitative equipment, techniques, and exercise protocols.
Prepares reports on Athletic Training results and referral activity, sharing results with appropriate parties. Recognizes top performance and effectively addresses any performance or volume concerns. Facilitates with Athletic Trainers, Physicians, and Practice Managers excellent physician extender services where targeted. When functioning as a physician extender, acts as a physician-patient liaison in both surgical and non-surgical conditions in conveying instructions and information. Responsible for ensuring that the physician's care plans and protocols are understood and adhered to by the patient and supporting staff.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university in Athletic Training.
10+ years as a certified athletic trainer.
5-7 years supervisory or progressively more responsible lead experience.
ATC certification by the National Athletic Trainers' Association Board of Certification.
Eligible for license in Maryland and Virginia and eligible to practice in the District of Columbia.
Basic Life Support (BLS).
3-4 years' experience within MNRN preferred.
Master's degree preferred.
Why MedStar Health?
At MedStar Health, we understand that our ability to treat others well begins with how we treat each other. We work hard to foster an inclusive and positive environment where our associates feel valued, connected, and empowered. We live up to this promise through:
- Strong emphasis on teamwork - our associates feel connected to each other and our mission as an organization. In return, our effective team environment generates positive patient outcomes and high associate satisfaction ratings that exceed the national benchmark.
- Strategic focus on equity, inclusion, & diversity - we are committed to equity for all people and communities. We continue to build a diverse and inclusive workplace where people feel a sense of belonging and the ability to contribute to equitable care delivery and improved community health outcomes at all levels of the organization.
- Comprehensive total rewards package - including competitive pay, generous paid time off, great health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, education assistance, and so much more.
- More career opportunities closer to home - as the largest healthcare provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. region, there are countless opportunities to grow your career and fulfill your aspirations.
About MedStar Health
MedStar Health is dedicated to providing the highest quality care for people in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, while advancing the practice of medicine through education, innovation, and research. Our team of 32,000 includes physicians, nurses, residents, fellows, and many other clinical and non-clinical associates working in a variety of settings across our health system, including 10 hospitals and more than 300 community-based locations, the largest home health provider in the region, and highly respected institutes dedicated to research and innovation. As the medical education and clinical partner of Georgetown University for more than 20 years, MedStar Health is dedicated not only to teaching the next generation of doctors, but also to the continuing education, professional development, and personal fulfillment of our whole team. Together, we use the best of our minds and the best of our hearts to serve our patients, those who care for them, and our communities. It's how we treat people.
MedStar Health is an Equal Opportunity (EO) Employer and assures equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We hire people to work in different locations, and we comply with the federal, state and local laws governing each of those locations. MedStar Health makes all decisions regarding employment, including for example, hiring, transfer, promotion, compensation, benefit eligibility, discipline, and discharge without regard to any protected status, including race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliations, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local EO laws. If you receive an offer of employment, it is MedStar Health's policy to hire its employees on an at-will basis, which means you or MedStar Health may terminate this relationship at any time, for any reason.
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