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Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

$23.28 - $41.90

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Monday, Thursday, Tuesday

Scheduled Hours:

8-4:30p

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

24

Cost Center:

24050 - 3994 EKG

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

The Senior Exercise Physiologist in the Stress Testing Department is professionally trained in preventive health and rehabilitation field. Duties will include exercise test clearance, performance and preliminary interpretation.

I. Major Responsibilities:

1. Using departmental care standards and protocols and all applicable hospital standards, policies and procedures, evaluates patient needs and implements exercise modalities based on the individual’s defined needs.
2. Works collaboratively with the covering physician to assess the patients for contraindications to exercise testing and obtains clearance for the exercise tests.
3. Completes the informed consent with the patient.
4. Evaluates the patient for special precautions.
5. Determines the appropriate procedure and protocol for each patient’s test.
6. Contacts the covering physician to obtain a new order, when the initial order is not possible due to the patient’s condition.
7. Supervises/conducts exercise tolerance testing with an RN or another clinical exercise physiologist/exercise test technician and performs the following with the covering physician in the facility:
8. Monitors the ECG constantly throughout the test and determines the presence of unsafe and clinically significant rhythms.
9. Measures the patient’s blood pressure response intermittently throughout the test.
10. Determines when the test should be terminated either for medical reasons or for patient tolerance.
11. Evaluates the patient during the test recovery period and remains alert for post-exercise complications.
12. Recognizes safe completion of recovery period and allows patient to leave the testing area.
13. Participates in data entry and other duties related to the exercise tolerance test documentation.
14. Completes the exercise testing data forms with a preliminary interpretation.
15. Collates the exercise test data into a package of information for the final interpretation by the covering physician.
16. Contacts the covering physician with occurrence of any condition that might suggest a medically hazardous condition exists.
17. Initiates CPR and calls a Code Blue or a Rapid Response Team when appropriate.
18. Assists in the development and updating of policy and procedure manuals.
19. Assists in the supervision of student interns.
20. Assists with evaluating and maintaining the quality and quantity of patient care services in relation to the performance improvement program.
21. Participates in community health fairs.

22. May work in the Cardiac Rehab Department as needed.
23. Performs other duties as assigned.

Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:

1. Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
2. Attends a variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
3. Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
4. Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
5. Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
6. Maintains regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
7. Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:
Required:
1. American College of Sport Medicine Certification as a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist is required.
2. CPR/BCLS and ACLS Certification is required.
3. Master’s Degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology or health related field.
Preferred:

1. N/A

Experience/Skills:
Required:
1. Advanced knowledge of exercise physiology, nutrition, risk factor modification strategies, counseling techniques, and use of educational programs and technologies as applied to cardiovascular/pulmonary rehabilitation services and exercise tolerance testing.
2. At least 3-5 years of experience in delivery of cardiovascular/pulmonary rehabilitation and at least 3-5 years of experience performing exercise tolerance testing.
3. Expertise with a personal computer; Microsoft Word, (word processing) Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet analysis), Microsoft Access (database analysis), Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation graphics), or other related software is required.

Preferred:

1. N/A

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.

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.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.