Exercise Specialist jobs in Sacramento, CA

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County including inpatient and outpatient surgical services family birth center/labor and delivery emergency services home health services palliative care inpatient mental health services sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community we believe in providing compassionate high-quality health care to you and your family close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

The exercise specialist is responsible in coordination with the cardiac conditioning nurse for routine operations of the cardiac-conditioning program. This responsibility includes facilitating the patients functional progression by ensuring standards of exercise principles as individually prescribed according to specific cardiac diagnosis. This position is responsible for support of patient progress in a manner consistent with the existing and developing policies and in accordance with the mission statement.

We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary Protection: Group Accident Critical Illness and Identity Theft
• Adoption Assistance
• Free Premium Membership to Care.com with preloaded credits for children and/or dependent adults
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Assistance for career growth and development
• Retirement Programs
• Wellness Programs

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

• B.S./ B.A. or equivalent degree with emphasis in exercise physiology.

Licensure:

• Current BLS/ACLS certification required.

Experience:

• Proficiency with cardiac telemetry monitoring.
• Familiarity with treatment for specific cardiac diagnoses.
• Proficiency with prescribing exercise for a variety of patient populations both diseases and healthy.

Special Skills:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and assisting in lifting and positioning of patients good manual and finger dexterity and good hand and eye coordination.
• Requires walking bending and occasional standing for extensive periods of time.
• Requires some lifting and carrying of objects weighing up to 30 pounds.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing working in stressful or emergency situations and some exposure to communicable diseases.
• Must be able to demonstrate proper stretching techniques and use of aerobic exercise equipment.