Sports Medicine Administrator
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Position Number: | 100031 |
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Title: | Administrator |
Functional Title: | Sports Medicine Administrator |
Category Status: | 33-Exempt Regular |
Applicant Search Category: | Staff |
University Authorized FTE: | 1.000 |
Unit: | VPSA-UHC-University Health Center |
Campus/College Information: | Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world. |
Background Checks | Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment. |
Position Summary/Purpose of Position: | This position will manage and administer areas of sport medicine including, but not limited to, athletic training, sports nutrition, sport psychology and medical services contracts for additional team physicians, physical therapists, massage therapists, psychiatrists, and other allied health providers. This position reports to and supports the Director of Sports Medicine/Head Team Physician within the University Health Center. |
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities Essential Duty/Responsibility (1): | – Collaborate with the Head Team Physician with administrative tasks as assigned such as budgets, audits, reports, surveys, meeting management, and identifying current best practices.- Collaborate with the Head Team Physician with developing, implementing, and auditing sports medicine policies, protocols, and practices that best serve student-athletes. - Serve as liaison between the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) Department and the UHC Sports Medicine Department. Percentage (1): | 60% Essential Duty/Responsibility (2): | Manage affiliate medical services contracts for additional team physicians, physical therapists, massage therapists, chiropractors, x-ray services, psychiatrists, and other allied health providers including onboarding and team collaboration. Fosters collaboration and cooperation between all areas of sports performance. Percentage (2): | 20% Essential Duty/Responsibility (3): | Supervise educational programming for student-athletes, sport coaches, and athletics health care providers on topics including, but not limited to, sports-related concussion, emergency action plans, head and neck injuries, cardiac events, environmental monitoring, exertional heat illness, exertional collapse, sickle cell trait, asthma, rhabdomyolysis, diabetic emergency, and proper training, periodization principles and other topics as needed. Percentage (3): | 10% Essential Duty/Responsibility (4): | Work collaboratively with coaching staff, strength and conditioning and sports performance personnel, physicians, athletic trainers, contracted healthcare providers, and University and athletic administration. Other duties as assigned. Percentage (4): | 10% |
Job Risks | Occupational Related Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure , Respiratory Protection |
Physical Demands | The scope of this position requires occasional weekend and evening work (Non-standard work hours). While performing the essential functions of the job, the employee operates a computer and other office devices such as telephones, copy machines, fax machines, etc. Constantly moves about the facility and campus. Usual demands of an office environment with some bending, stooping, and lifting less than 25 lbs. Potential exposure to communicable disease by virtue of working in a healthcare facility. |
Posting Date: | 04/05/2024 |
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Open Until Filled | Yes |
Best Consideration Date | 05/01/2024 |
Diversity Statement: | The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. |
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