Athletic Trainer Outsourcing of Services

The Tucson Unified School District is seeking a qualified third-party provider to supply comprehensive athletic training services, including staffing, scheduling, event coverage, medical oversight, and athletic program management. The services will be focused on high school sports (grades 9 through 12) and may eventually include middle school (grades 7 and 8) as the program expands. The district is looking for a flexible, all-inclusive approach to athletic training support services that promotes the autonomy of scheduling and staffing in the role of the vendor selected. • The provider will be expected to participate in a quarterly quality assurance model, collect data on services, and provide oversight of their own staff. • The provider will ensure coverage for events should the regularly-assigned athletic trainer be absent. • The district is very campus-culture focused, so the focus of the vendor should be to retain the athletic trainer at the same site as long as possible, require them to become part of the school site's culture, and support a high-quality customer support model. • The district also believes that they are all community, so if services are required for visiting teams without an athletic trainer, the vendor is expected to provide "courtesy" support to the visiting team at the time of injury.