Head Athletic Trainer - Higher Ed. jobs in Fort Myers, FL

Join Performance Optimal Health as an Athletic Trainer. Here at Performance, we take a holistic approach to health and recovery, ultimately striving to empower all clients to live better lives. Each of our clients undergo a unique Optimal Health Assessment, allowing us to tailor their plan of care to their specific needs using a variety of our services. Our services we offer are based upon the Four Pillars of Optimal Health – exercise, nutrition, recovery, and stress management. We have highly trained professionals in all four pillars, who make the clients journey their priority.

With just over 20 years of experience throughout Connecticut and New York, we have successfully launched our first site in Naples, Florida. We are excited to continue growing and building upon our Athletic Training Team within Florida. We are seeking an individual with a passion for health and wellness, and a willingness to work within a team of individuals focused on impacting the lives of our clients in a positive way.

Performance Optimal Health provides top quality care to our clients, and we would not be able to do so without our highly trained team of individuals. Come join us on our journey!

Cornerstones
Performance Optimal Health is driven by five main cornerstones that are ever present and inform all actions and decisions regarding how we scale, what direction our business takes, and how we conduct ourselves.

• We care from the core
• We sweat the small stuff
• We are teachers & scholars
• We take ownership
• We huddle

Key Areas of Ownership

Performance Optimal Health is seeking qualified Athletic Trainers that can:

• Provide on-field game coverage and injury management
• Provide rehabilitation services in the Athletic Training Room
• Injury tracking, documentation, referrals and communication to key parties
• Develop and utilize emergency action plan
• Work collaboratively with physical therapy team on-site (if applicable)
• Fostering and developing community and physician relationships
• Functioning within POH locations during off-hours to support client rehabilitation and rendering personal training/strength and conditioning services

• Monitors team practices, athletic equipment, sporting grounds and helping to ensure safe training and playing conditions
• Educates, instructs, and supervises athletes in use of rehab equipment and exercises, providing daily counsel and treat ment for injuries

• Clearly communicate cross functionally about athletic injuries when & where appropriate
• Maintains medical records and forms for treatments given, completes injury or accident reports, and observes and assists the fitting of athletic or rehabilitative equipment
• Communicate athletic clearance (injury status) with coaches
• Stays informed and knowledgeable of developments in the sports medicine field, as well as changing governmental which may affect the sports medicine program’s guidelines and decision-making