Provide training services for student athletes, clinical clients, and campus labs or centers.
Responsibilities
Typical Allocation of Duties:
Provide athletic training, physical therapy, rehabilitation, or related practice: Provide services to clients as appropriate or provide referral recommendations in order to assess, plan, or implement fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardio-respiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility; including the prevention, care, and rehabilitation of injuries where appropriate.
Serve as subject-matter expert for events, marketing, and operational activities: Provide coverage of events as appropriate for the operational unit assigned (i.e. Athletic Department professionals will serve as trainers at sports events, Exercise Physiology professionals will serve at campus events to market and represent their area or serve current and potential clients).
Provide training and instruction, or supervision thereof: Organize clinics, courses, and individual fitness plans; advise on prevention and care of specific injuries; develop procedures, or methodologies based on new research or knowledge, or interpret and apply established policies in order to provide best practice services to clients.
Referral: Refer clients to external medical professionals when appropriate or when client needs exceed that of the available program and staff.
Required Qualifications
Required Experience Bachelor's degree in a specified field and over three (3) years of related work experience. Applicable State of Georgia License in good standing of required employing unit.
A successful candidate will be/possess:
BOC certified;
a Georgia Athletic Training license, or be eligible for such;
willing to travel and work weekends and holidays;
able to work individually with his/her sport, but also as a member of the larger VSU Sports Medicine Team;
held to high standards of professionalism as set by the BOC, NATA, and supervisor.
As a comprehensive institution of the University System of Georgia, Valdosta State University (VSU) is a welcoming, aware, and vibrant community founded on and dedicated to serving our communities' in the South Georgia region. Through excellence in teaching, basic and applied research, and service, VSU provides rigorous programs and opportunities that enrich our students, our university, and our region. As such, the VSU mission consists of three interrelated parts that includes a student mission, university mission and regional mission. The university is equally dedicated to the core values of community, including a commitment to practice civility, integrity and citizenship. As members of this community and proud Blazers we strive to uphold these core values for the advancement of the University, as stated in the Blazer Creed and reflected in our commitment to the University System of Georgia's Core Values.
