Clinical Exercise Physiologist II

Banner Health•Phoenix, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As an Exercise Physiologist in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, you will play a key role in supporting patients across all phases of recovery, from inpatient to long-term maintenance. The daily work includes assessing patients’ medical status, developing individualized exercise prescriptions, and leading supervised exercise sessions while closely monitoring vitals, ECG, and symptoms to ensure safety. You will provide education on lifestyle medication, breathing techniques, and risk-factor management, and collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team to support recovery and long-term wellness. Through compassionate coaching and evidence-based practice, you will help patients build confidence, improve functional capacity, and transition safely from hospital care to independent exercise. This position is 40-hours per week with varied day start times and with a weekend, holiday and call requirement. This position provides assessment, treatment, and education to cardiac patients and their families during their inpatient stay post cardiac event and in outpatient cardiac and/or pulmonary rehabilitation. May work in phase 1 rehabilitation and perform various exercise tolerance tests and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.

Requirements

Possesses a level of clinical knowledge as normally obtained through Bachelor’s degree in exercise/physiology or related field.
Minimum of 1 year experience in cardiac and/or pulmonary rehabilitation and/or stress testing.
Minimum experience of a 600 + hour internship in cardiac rehabilitation or equivalent clinical/patient care hours.
Requires knowledge in cardiac/pulmonary physiology, management and treatment of chronic disease, health promotion, ECG and 12-lead interpretation.
Requires the ability to work collaboratively with physicians and other healthcare providers.
Must have strong interpersonal communications and human relation skills.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification required.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology or related field
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) clinical exercise physiologist (CEP) certification
Up to 1 year experience in stress testing
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Evaluates patient’s functional abilities and limitations to determine appropriate intervention.
Develops a plan of care and exercise goals, as ordered by physician or other referral source.
Serves as a resource to new Clinical Exercise Physiologists and reinforces high quality patient care, appropriate exercise prescription and in-depth patient education.
May independently run phase I, II, III, cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation classes.
Implements individualized exercise plans that consider patients’ physical and age-specific needs and abilities.
Ensures that treatment plans are supported by standard practices and/or current literature.
Re-evaluates treatment plans, as needed, to ensure safety and maximum patient benefit.
Follows protocol with little deviation for patient assessments and exercise prescription.
Educates patients and family post cardiac to promote patient participation and attainment of exercise program goals.
May ambulate post open-heart patients to improve outcomes and safe/prompt discharge home. Ambulation done both in the telemetry and intensive care unit.
Provides individualized home programs with clear instructions.
Instructs patients and families in pathology, discharge guidelines, risk factor modification, and exercise individually and through classes for both cardiac and pulmonary patients.
Presents educational material to team to aid in maintaining clinical relevance and application of best practices.
Independently documents patient treatment according to professional and regulatory standards.
Maintains strong competency in policies and procedures and all required documentation.
May serve as a resource to other team members.
Follows plan of care to accomplish functions within established procedures and scope of practice.
Makes independent judgments based on specialized knowledge.
Confers with leadership on any unusual situations.
Utilizes solid understanding of medical devices, equipment function and quality control measurements.
Adheres to safety policies.
Promptly addresses patient questions related to equipment usage and devices.
Follows standardized policy and procedures.
Demonstrates the ability to trouble shoot and notifies appropriate personnel to maintain equipment performance.
Maintains a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.
Complies with all ethical, legal, professional and certification responsibilities.
Maintains confidentiality of all patient information.