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Position Title:  Clinic Director of BucSports

Department:  Intercollegiate Athletics

 

Expectations for All Employees

East Tennessee State University pursues its mission based upon core values. An employee's job performance must support and exhibit the university's core values:

PEOPLE come first, are treated with dignity and respect, and are encouraged to achieve their full potential;
RELATIONSHIPS are built on honesty, integrity and trust;
DIVERSITY of people and thought is respected;
EXCELLENCE is achieved through teamwork, leadership, creativity, and a strong work ethic;
EFFICIENCY is achieved through wise use of human and financial resources; and
COMMITMENT to intellectual achievement is embraced.

Function of Position

Responsible to the Director of Athletics for the overall management of BucSports Athletic Medicine Center; coordinating and directing the professional, non-professional staff and all consultants; integrating the Center’s activities with other health agencies, hospitals, and extended care facilities in the area; coordinating all intercollegiate athletics medical activities; supervising and managing the athletic training room; managing the sports medicine program to include the care, prevention, and rehabilitation of student-athletes in the intercollegiate athletics program; and performing other related duties as assigned.

Essential Functions

-        Conducts overall administration and direction of the Center.

-        Implements and enforces Center policies and procedures.

-        Maintains professional and administrative responsibility for all center personnel.

-        Exercises effective fiscal management of the Center.

-        Coordinates the Center’s activities with the advice and recommendation of the Medical Director and Director of Athletics.

-        Markets and integrates the Center’s services into the community’s health care delivery system.

-        Works with MEAC to oversee all  insurance, billing, collection, credentialing of staff and fiscal reporting; monitors all financial operations.

-        Remains in full compliance with NCAA, University, and Southern Conference rules.

-        Complies with all NCAA rules and regulations, and acknowledges this compliance as part of an annual evaluation process.

-        Signs an NCAA Compliance Statement annually.

Secondary Functions

-        Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Abilities

-        Knowledge of basic principles of supervision.

-        Knowledge of the proper care, prevention and rehabilitation of student-athletes.

-        Knowledge of prescription medicines generally used by student-athletes.

-        Knowledge of a wide variety of athletic training room supplies and equipment.

-        Ability to direct medical activities surrounding a variety of athletic programs.

-        Ability to form and maintain effective working relationships with other health care agencies, hospitals, and extended care facilities.

-        Ability to effectively treat a wide variety of sports injuries.

-        Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of constituents.

Supervision Given and Received

Performs under general supervision.  Determines own methods of performing assigned work. 

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher; NATA and State of Tennessee certification; three to five years experience in administration of athletic therapy center.

 

Date:  November, 2005