Certified Athletic Trainer - Baseball

Details

Posted: 26-Jun-26

Location: Columbia, Missouri

Type: Full-time

Categories

Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine - Athletic Training

Sector

Collegiate Sports

Preferred Education

4 Year Degree

The University of Missouri Department of Athletics is seeking a Certified Athletic Trainer to work with our Baseball program. This position requires an individual skilled in illness and injury prevention, assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and care encountered by student-athletes in competitive athletics.

Key Responsibilities

• Injury Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation (65%)
• Collecting all medical paperwork including assistance with pre-participation examinations.
• Performing any baseline testing, including corrective exercise screenings, movement profiles, as well as development of individual protocols and maintenance programs for injury prevention or movement deficiencies.
• Coordinating medical care for all in-season and official team practices/workouts including home hosting duties and traveling to away contests.
• Staying on top of all medical maintenance needs and EAP’s for home and away contests including prior communication to the other team’s ATC’s.
• Acting as liaison to the team physicians and other medical providers to ensure proper care is received.
• Following all prescribed rehabilitation and treatment protocols of team physicians (including if/when a student athlete is referred to formalized rehab.)
• Performing all treatments, rehabilitations, taping/bracing, and casting as needed.
• Properly document all injuries/illnesses including mental health into the E.M.R. platform.
• Assisting with medical coverage of other teams as needed or assigned.
• Student-athlete and Coaching Staff Communication (20%)
• Preparing timely and accurate documents such as injury/illness reports, care and reconditioning updates, daily athletic training records, injury/illness and communicate summaries for sport coaches (including Strength & Conditioning Coach), medical and other correspondence.
• Communicating effectively with strength and conditioning coaches regarding the injured student-athletes strength and conditioning parameters and limitations associated with injury rehabilitation.
• Consulting with coaching staff on conditioning programs, safety of proper athletic activities, equipment safety, and safety of facilities and grounds at competitive venues.
• Athletic Training Room Operations. (10%)
• Participating in our mentorship program with your assigned AT.
• Providing supervision, instruction, delegation, evaluation, and assistance with students including volunteer, internships, clinical immersion, and federal work study.
• Aiding in the advancement of the athletic training facility including maintenance and upkeep of your assigned facility.
• Aiding in the advancement of your assigned facilities including maintenance, upkeep, inventory and ordering
• Performing other duties as assigned or pro-actively added by the Director, Senior Associate Director, and/ or Associate Director of Sports Medicine. Other assigned duties will be based off of overall candidate experience and departmental needs. This could include the supervision of other AT’s, facility oversight, facility scheduling, or other administrative tasks etc.
• Administration, Documentation, and Compliance (5%)
• Maintain B.O.C. certification and Missouri licensure with accumulation of CEU’s.
• Maintain medical malpractice liability insurance.
• Collaborate with other staff members to help develop in the areas of rehab, treatment, movement profiles, and readiness score/testing.
• Participate in opportunities that help with research collaboration.
  
  

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About University Of Missouri Athletics Department

Established in 1839, the University of Missouri knows what it means to be first. We were the first public university west of the Mississippi River. We are home to the world’s first journalism school. We started the tradition of homecoming. As a flagship, land-grant institution and one of only 65 universities across the U.S. and Canada to be a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, we are a campus where empathy, innovation and hard work combine to solve the world’s grand challenges. Our community of students, faculty and staff enhances bovine reproduction, composes award-winning music and generates life-saving radioisotopes in the most powerful university research reactor in the country. We tackle diverse problems because Missouri is a diverse state — from the southern Ozarks to the northern plains. We are Mizzou, where Black and Gold runs deep and Truman the Tiger embodies our bold spirit.

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