Cardiac Rehab Specialist

Brookfield, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Health Care

Job Summary

Description

ROMTech through its subsidiary ROMTherapy delivers a clinically driven home-based cardiac rehabilitation program utilizing telemedicine and connected medical devices. We are now looking for Exercise Physiologists to provide remote clinical care and exercise supervision to patients enrolled in our virtual cardiac rehabilitation program working under the direction of the Director of Clinical Services.

We have the following shifts available:

Cardiac Rehab Specialist: Late - Mon-Fri 10:40am - 7:25pm CST

Cardiac Rehab Specialist Float: Mon-Fri. This role requires flexibility to provide coverage for Cardiac Rehab Specialists during planned and unplanned PTO. The Float Specialist must be available to work early mid and late shifts with total weekly hours not exceeding 40 hours.

Responsibilities:

Monitor assess treat and document patient tolerance of exercise via ROMTech virtual user platform.
Provide exercise lifestyle modification and disease management education for patients and family members.
Provide exercise prescription for patients utilizing clinical assessment data patient status and current medication regimen and update prescription according to patient response.
Complete all required patient documentation including ITP and session notes in a timely and HIPAA-compliant manner.
Recognize contraindications to exercise abnormal patient responses and respond appropriately per protocol.
Communicate with the Director Clinical Services supervising physician and other appropriate staff both verbally and in writing.
Interpret patients ECGs and biometric data efficiently and effectively.
Compile current medication list and ensure patients fully understand the reason for and actions of all medications.
Provide both personal and user feedback related to product meeting with the Director Cardiac Rehab and Product Manager to assist with product development as needed.
Assist with development of educational content as needed.
Other duties as may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to the employee.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Must demonstrate a strong ability to multitask working with multiple patients simultaneously while maintaining standards and taking appropriate action when necessary.
Enthusiastic and motivated with strong interpersonal skills; desire and ability to develop patient rapport in telehealth setting.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong organizational and time-management skills.
Organized and supportive of flexibility in working with a team.
Proficient with Microsoft 365.
Bilingual (Spanish & English) a plus.
Bachelors degree in Exercise Physiology Exercise Science or related field.
Masters degree in Exercise in Exercise Physiology Exercise Science or related field not required preferred.
Minimum 3 years of clinical experience in a cardiac rehab program.
2 years of experience in a center-based cardiac rehab setting required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) First Aid/CPR are required.
ACLS certification required. ACSM-CEP and/or AACVPR-CCRP preferred.
Must be bi-lingual (English and Spanish)
Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period.
Moderate noise (i.e. phone calls online meetings computer audio)
While performing the duties of this job the employee may be regularly required to stand sit talk hear reach stoop kneel and use hands and fingers to operate a computer telephone and keyboard.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
Regular predictable attendance is required.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Reasonable accommodation requests must be made in writing by emailing

Required Experience: