Registered Athletic Trainer

Registered Athletic Trainer at Smilow Cancer Hospital

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

• Clinical Practice:
  Supports the orthopedic provider in clinic with rooming patients, updating EMR, home exercise teaching, pre/post‑op care including MRSA swabs and suture/staple removal, preparing patients for injections, assisting in set‑up of sterile procedures, and preparing medications. Performs patient exams and specialized testing, reviews and interprets diagnostic testing (X‑Rays, CT, EMG, MRI, ultrasound) under provider supervision, educates and provides durable medical equipment or casting as ordered, follows up on patient phone calls and MyChart messages in a timely manner.
• Clinical Program:
  Collaborates with orthopedic team to provide safe and quality care, confirms HIPAA standards are maintained, coordinates follow‑up care and referrals when appropriate.
• Patient Safety, Quality, and Research:
  Creates and supports a culture of safety, role‑models service excellence, identifies and resolves issues, participates in safety and quality improvement efforts, promotes clinical trials and research activities, fosters academic and clinical investigation through participation in research projects, literature review, data collection, and entry.
• Professional Development and
  
  Education:
  
  Participates in enhancing professional development of the athletic trainer and other health‑care providers involved in orthopedic patient care.

• Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy or Allied Health Sciences (required).
• Minimum two years’ experience as an athletic trainer (required).

• Nationally certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), Connecticut state licensure (required).
• BLS required.

• Casting and experience in outpatient orthopedics preferred.

Must be able to assist mobility‑impaired patients and assist in patient transfers.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Other
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care