Position Title:

Director, Sports Medicine

Position Type:

Regular

Hiring Range:

$85,400 - $102,487 annually; Compensation will be based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.

Pay Frequency:

Annual

A.   POSITION PURPOSE
 

The Director, Sports Medicine is responsible for assisting in the developing, coordinating, and administering of all aspects of a Division I sports medicine program that serves approximately 425 intercollegiate student athletes. This includes administrative duties as well as any and all aspects relative to provide comprehensive, evidenced-based health care to SCU student-athletes. This individual will be responsible for maintaining a working relationship with student health services, team physicians, physical therapists, other health care professionals, coaches and parents of student athletes. The person in this position is responsible for abiding by all WCC and NCAA regulations and assisting to ensure departmental compliance. 

 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

 

Prevention and Care of Student-Athlete Injuries and Illnesses

• Represent Santa Clara University as the certified athletic trainer for assigned SCU athletic sanctioned events. This may include on or off campus practices, events, and/or competitions. Travel may be required. 

• Conduct injury prevention assessments. 

• Design and implement individualized injury prevention programs for student-athletes. 

• Collect and evaluate injury prevention, performance, and/or injury record data.

• Evaluate injuries and/or illnesses for student-athletes. Refer to other medical personnel when professionally indicated. 

• Design and implement treatment and/or rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.

• Communicate with medical personnel regarding the medical care and treatment of athletic related injuries and/or illnesses. Create injury management plans that may include doctor visits, x-rays/scans, medical exams/studies, rehabilitation programs, and/or surgery for injured student-athletes.

• Provide onsite emergency care at assigned SCU athletic sanctioned practices, events, and/or competitions.

• Abide by all SCU sports medicine protocols.

• Maintain clinical affiliations with accredited regional and national universities supporting programs in athletic training education. Serve as an approved preceptor for athletic training students from those programs. 

• Serves as a primary advisor to the coaching staff in conjunction with the sports performance coach for managing the practice and game load management and other relevant key performance indicators that affect player availability through the use of sport science technology (eg., Catapult, subjective questionnaires, etc.)

 

Program Direction and Administration

• Advise in policy-making and operations decisions for the sports medicine department.

• Participate in the annual review process of current policies and procedures.

 

Student Oversight

• Provide mentorship to sports medicine students

• Serve as a clinical preceptor to assigned students

 

Pre-Participation Exam (Physicals) Coordinator

• Coordinate with team physician group to schedule annual pre-participation exams for all student-athletes 

• Manage the creation of new student-athlete electronic health record profiles and the distribution of all pre-participation exam paperwork with respective sports medicine staff members (eg., insurance declarations, medical history forms, etc.)

• Communicate relevant information from appointments to the respective sports medicine staff members

• Ensure compliance with NCAA regulations regarding medical clearance requirements (eg., medication waivers, annual concussion education, etc.)

• Ensure appropriate documentation of all pre-participation exams

 

AEC Sports Medicine Facility &Hydrotherapy Coordinator

• Coordinate the appropriate and required maintenance/upkeep of the Schott Athletic Excellence Center Sports Medicine Clinic and Hydrotherapy room 

• Coordinate with the Associate Athletic Director- Facilities & Operations to submit work orders and maintenance requests

• Coordinate staff in-service trainings on equipment maintenance and usage

• Coordinate staff in-service trainings for hydrotherapy usage and rehabilitation best practices

Sport Science & Technology Integration

• Coordinate implementation, updates,