Cleveland Clinic Green Health and Wellness Center is a patient-friendly facility offering numerous medical and wellness services, including Primary Care, Emergency, Cardiology and Nutrition Departments. Backed by the full resources of Cleveland Clinic Akron General, our experienced teams provide the surrounding community with advanced, quality healthcare. Come be part of an organization transforming the caring field every day, here at Cleveland Clinic.
Being an Exercise Specialist at the Health and Wellness Center in Green is a wonderful way to touch the lives of members and patients every day. In this role, you will support others as they create healthy and safe habits while exercising in a fun environment. You will assist with various tasks, such as assessing physical needs, implementing programs, designing individualized plans and ensuring safety across the unit. Throughout the process, you will gain extensive hands-on experience in an exciting healthcare setting.
A caregiver in this position works day/evening/night/weekend from 5:30AM—10:00PM.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Be responsible for physical assessments, exercise prescription, exercise floor coverage, equipment cleanliness/preventive maintenance, policy enforcement, member exercise incentive programming and always delivering excellent customer service.
Make regular rounds of the exercise floor to ensure safety and assist members and guests with exercise-related issues or questions.
Schedule and administer computerized health risk appraisal and physical fitness assessments to new and existing members.
Prescribe individual exercise programs that follow ACSM established guidelines based on assessment.
Follow the equipment cleaning and preventive maintenance check list. All equipment needs to be inspected and cleaned daily.
Follow established procedures when exercise equipment is found to be malfunctioning to get the equipment operational within 24 hours, including posting of the appropriate status signage, notifying the Manager and recording the problem in the equipment log located at the Wellness Service Desk.
Develop and implement member exercise incentive programs to motivate and enhance consistency and retention.
Maintain current information on all club programs, services and activities and promote regularly.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Physiology, Exercise Science, Physical Education or a related field
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)
Ability to work variable hours
Experience in the administration of physical assessment exercise prescriptions and program development
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Master’s Degree
ACSM, ACE, AFAA, NSCA or related certifications
One year of experience as a Fitness Instructor in a community, corporate, commercial and/or clinical health/fitness facility
Basic computer operations skills
Our caregivers continue to create the best outcomes for our patients across each of our facilities. Click the link and see how we’re dedicated to providing what matters most to you: https://jobs.clevelandclinic.org/benefits-2/
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
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