Athletic Trainer, Full-Time, Days

Job Description

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 new two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana for what will be 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.

Essential Job Functions:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required from Athletic Training program
• 2 years of Athletic Training experience preferred.
• Licensure as Athletic Trainer in State of Indiana
• BLS Certification through The American Heart Association 

Position Details:

• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time (1.00 FTE).
• Shift: Days 
• Work Location: Onsite 
• Unit/Department: Ortho Clinic 
• CBA Code: Non-Union

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.

UChicago Medicine is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at: UChicago Medicine Career Opportunities

UChicago Medicine is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

As a condition of employment, all employees are required to complete a pre-employment physical, background check, drug screening, and comply with the flu vaccination requirements prior to hire. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered for flu vaccination consistent with applicable law.

Compensation & Benefits Overview

UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits.  The pay range provided reflects the anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position.

The pay range is based on a full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) and is reflective of current market data, reviewed on an annual basis. Compensation offered at the time of hire will vary based on candidate qualifications and experience and organizational considerations, such as internal equity. Pay ranges for employees subject to Collective Bargaining Agreements are negotiated by the medical center and their respective union.

Review the full complement of benefit options for eligible roles at Benefits - UChicago Medicine.