What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Athletic Trainer position at Decypher?
Join Decypher and make a direct impact on the health and readiness of America’s service members, veterans, and their families. Since 2008 Decypher has offered healthcare industry professionals careers where their expertise is valued, and their work makes a meaningful impact. Decypher partners with the Defense Health Agency to deliver professional services, technology, and management solutions. Our mission is to provide and support quality care for our veterans, servicemembers and their families, across the United States.
Job Summary: Athletic Trainer will provide comprehensive athletic training support by preventing, evaluating, and treating student injuries, while collaborating with medical staff and leadership to ensure effective rehabilitation and performance optimization. Maintain accurate medical records, oversee training facility operations, and support mission readiness through injury prevention programs, physical training supervision, and coordination across personnel and training environments.
Required Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
Job Summary: Athletic Trainer will provide comprehensive athletic training support by preventing, evaluating, and treating student injuries, while collaborating with medical staff and leadership to ensure effective rehabilitation and performance optimization. Maintain accurate medical records, oversee training facility operations, and support mission readiness through injury prevention programs, physical training supervision, and coordination across personnel and training environments.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate sports/medical science field.
- Certifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Board Certifications:
- National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board of Certification (NATABOC) or National Athletic Trainer’s Association (NATA).
- One of the following certifications and/or certificates within one hundred twenty (120) days and maintain currency accordingly (if applicable): National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) certified personal trainer (CPT) or higher; EXOS Performance Specialist or higher, or National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) or Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES); American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Health Fitness Specialist (HFS).
- If not already qualified, must be able to obtain and maintain all the following within four (4)-months of hire date at SW HPSG: Certified in Functional Movement Screening (FMS); Certified in Graston Techniques (GT) or Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilizations; Certified in Kinesio Taping Practitioner; Certified Astym therapy provider.
- License:
- State of Texas license
- Experience:
- Two years as a Certified Athletic Trainer - Collegiate level or higher.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply protective or injury preventive devices such as tape, bandages, or braces to body parts such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
- Collaborate with physicians to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for student injuries.
- Advise athletes on the proper use of equipment.
- Plan and implement comprehensive student injury and illness prevention programs.
- Supervise and conduct physical training programs with consideration to individual injuries.
- Develop training programs and routines designed to improve student performance.
- Provide care to student for medical issues on a daily basis and coordinate with appropriate military personnel along with the Paramedic, Coaches, Program Manager, and other contractor personnel as determined necessary for the situation.
- Maintain cleanliness and general upkeep of training facility to include, but not limited to, medical and fitness equipment.
- Organize and establish general rules of conduct for the training room facility.
- Recommend any changes to the respective HPSG, SWTS, SWCC PM and/or SWCC leadership in regards to all athletic training supplies and equipment used at the SWTW Courses.
- Keep accurate records of all injuries, method of treatment, rehabilitation, and medical releases. During normal operations, provide relevant information to SW medical staff to support the students’ medical needs.
- Keep the respective leadership informed daily, and more frequently as situations dictate, of all students treated by the AT staff (as required).
- Provide a weekly summary report to the respective leadership on all treatments and activities conducted by the AT staff, including all coordination, planning and activities.
- Visits or extended duties in these locations or sites are necessary to observe performance/events, to survey, to conduct planning, etcetera to ensure mission accomplishment. Some agility and strength may be required in executing medical coverage in these operational environments.
- Work may require travel away from the normal duty station in order to support training
- The work requires some physical exertion, such as walking over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces as well as time spent outdoors in extreme temperatures and variable weather conditions.
- Work can require prolonged standing indoors or outdoors, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
- Required to maintain strength, coordination and stamina to manage and operate exercise and medical equipment.
- Physical conditioning must be sufficient to demonstrate and perform various exercise procedures and the ability to perform under stress, including lifting heavy weights potentially up to 100 lbs., squatting, sitting, running, jumping, bending, walking crawling (low/high profile) for up to 25 meters, and prolonged standing.
- The position requires ability to move over, around, and through obstacles to a height of 10 feet, and up to 1.5 mile over rough terrain in extreme temperatures.
- Work a non-standard schedule, extended hours, and/or rotating shifts which may include early mornings, evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, but not to exceed 40 hours per week.
- Schedule must be flexible and may need to deviate from the typical work week schedule.
- Schedule not to exceed monthly contracted hours nor will they exceed twelve (12) consecutive hours, including a 1- hour lunch break.