Exercise Specialist

Where You'll Work

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 here at

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Job Summary and Responsibilities

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 patient's 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.

• Offers education related to the cardiac disease process, medications affecting hemodynamics and exercise regime and lifestyle health behaviors.
• Teaches coronary risk factor information to patients, family community and staff.
• Integrates appropriate referral and counseling abilities into routine care of patients
• Conducts recruitment of prospective program participants
• Motivates patients to insure quality of results and patient satisfaction
• Performs ongoing patient assessments regarding educational, physiological and emotional needs.

Job Requirements

• Bachelors Of Science emphasis in exercise physiology or Bachelors Of Arts emphasis in exercise physiology or equivalent degree.
• Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support from the American Heart Association.
• Proficiency with cardiac telemetry monitoring essential. Familiarity with treatment for specific cardiac diagnoses. Proficiency with prescribing exercise for a variety of patient populations, both diseased and healthy.
• 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.