Exercise Specialist

Responsibilities

• Affords assessments of patient abilities and limitations by reviewing medical records and physician’s notes.
• Administers pre-exercise testing interviews and test preparation.
• Utilizes testing equipment, protocol selection, indications, contraindications, and termination criteria for graded exercise testing.
• Records, analyzes, and interprets test results and prepares appropriate exercise prescriptions.
• Administers therapeutic exercises and other techniques aimed at improving functional capacity, exercise tolerance, endurance, muscle strength, and coordination to rehabilitating patient populations.
• Evaluates patient hemodynamic, electrocardiographic, and symptomatic responses to exercise, and assesses the appropriateness of these responses in relation to exercise intensity and endurance.
• In conjunction with multidisciplinary team members, designs, implements, supervises, and evaluates outcomes for exercise services.
• Collaborates with the department manager and medical staff in data collection, statistical analysis, development, and implementation of research projects.
• Aids in establishing new and maintaining current referral patterns, both within the organization and with other Salt Lake and regional hospitals.
• Aids in coordinating the daily operations of the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program as well as planning for long-term growth.
• Aids in arranging for patient follow-up and maintains correspondence with patients and referring physicians during rehabilitation course and after discharge.
• Might assist in program development for cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, employee fitness and health, facility utilization, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology, Exercise and Sports Science, or a related field, or equivalency.
• Licenses Required: Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system. The eCredential is to be obtained within 30 days of hire. Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.
• (Preferred) Certification as an Exercise Specialist. One year of rehabilitation and exercise testing. ACLS may be required by some departments.