SEH-CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST

Essential Duties

• Ensures an excellent patient experience.
• Exemplifies on-stage behavior and demonstrates high levels of organization and multi-tasking.
• Administers new patient evaluations.
• Completes, approves, implements, and ensures adherence to individual treatment plans for each patient.
• Works in conjunction with Respiratory Therapists, Registered Nurses, or Exercise Physiologists to ensure continuous monitoring of patient EKG and/or oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and pulse.
• Administers regularly scheduled educational components.
• Performs graded exercise testing, including obtaining patient history, medications, illnesses, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and exercise history, explaining testing procedures, safety precautions, attaching tracers, instructing patients, operating necessary equipment, and producing accurate tracings; recognizing and identifying problems during testing and notifying the physician according to procedure.
• Performs all clinical procedures and patient treatments based on CMS, AACVPR, ACSM, or other governing guidelines, ensuring all necessary actions are completed and documented correctly.
• Communicates patient status and progress regularly to the referring physician.
• Trains and verifies competency of staff on proper administration of clinical procedures, fitness testing, and biometric screenings.
• Accurately bills procedures to the appropriate patient.
• Safeguards the facility and equipment, ensuring they are clean, safe, and functioning properly.
• Serves as a role model for the organization’s mission, vision, values, and customer service initiatives.
• Adheres to the organization’s policies and procedures, and compliance guidelines.
• Attends staff meetings and in-service programs as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• BLS certification.
• Minimum of 6 months previous experience in exercise testing or clinical exercise treatment.
• Bachelor’s degree in exercise science, kinesiology, health and fitness, or related field.
• Knowledge and demonstrated understanding of fitness testing and exercise prescription guidelines and standards.
• Knowledge of CMS, AACVPR, and ACSM guidelines.
• Working knowledge of office procedures.
• Written and computer skills necessary to prepare required documentation.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain positive relations and rapport with patients and internal/external customers.
• Demonstrates professional appearance.
• Mental ability to effectively work on tasks requiring accuracy and attention to detail, adapt and respond to multiple priorities and demands, and handle information of a confidential nature.
• Demonstrates ability to use a keyboard as may be required to perform the essential duties of the job.

Qualifications

The University of Michigan Health-Sparrow is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.