The Athletic Trainer on the Factory Floor

Athletic trainers are not just for sidelines. The same skills that keep an athlete healthy, injury prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation, translate directly to the workplace, where a strained back or a repetitive-motion injury can sideline a worker as surely as it would a player. The challenge is getting that expertise to where the work actually happens, which is often nowhere near a stadium or a university.

The Challenge

Pivot Onsite Innovations has spent more than 20 years building worksite medical clinics, staffing customized programs with certified healthcare professionals and offering athletic training to help employers prevent injuries and keep their workforce healthy. Pivot operates across more than a dozen industries nationwide, including aerospace, auto, construction, meat packing, manufacturing, and industrial equipment.

That footprint is the hard part. These factories and warehouses sit in less-populated and rural parts of the country, exactly where certified athletic trainers are in short supply and far from the universities and pro teams where they usually work. Based in Illinois, Pivot needed a way to put qualified trainers on the ground wherever its clients operated, not just where trainers happened to live.

The Solution

Pivot turned to Go4’s on-demand athletic trainer staffing platform and its national community of 20,000 trainers who use the app to find per diem work near them. That reach gave Pivot something local staffing could not: access to certified, insured, professional trainers willing to work outside the traditional sports setting, in the towns where its clients run their operations.

The model is built for a national portfolio. Pivot posts jobs for free and hires a single trainer or many, for a day, a week, or a full year. A single operations team member can list the needs of the entire client portfolio in one fast sitting, turning what used to be a region-by-region staffing hunt into one streamlined workflow.

By The Numbers
  • 24,446 hours staffed with athletic trainers
  • 115 different locations
  • 3 years using Go4
The Takeaway

When the work is spread across the country and the talent is hard to find locally, reach is everything. Go4 gives occupational health providers a national network to staff certified athletic trainers wherever their clients operate, one shift or one portfolio at a time.

Staffing athletic trainers across multiple sites? Find your athletic trainers on Go4.