Exercise Program Facilitator, Winston Salem

Job Summary: 

The Exercise Program Facilitator position provides a first impression for the program, it is imperative that this position consistently maintains a friendly, upbeat demeanor, coupled with the ability to motivate and convince individuals in Phase I of the importance for participation in the vital exercise intervention. This position is ultimately responsible for ensuring all program components are completed and tracked in a timely manner. Constant communication with program participants is imperative. In addition, this position will play a key role in assessing and developing performance improvement (PI) projects for HS, reporting monthly outcomes to both the Coordinator and Manger, providing updates to staff, and establishing and maintaining a good working relationship with respective physicians.

Education: 

• Bachelors Exercise Science or Health Promotion Required 

Certifications and Licensures: 

• BCLS Required 
• ACSM Exercise Specialist certification required or similar certification and must be completed within 12 months of employment. 

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Good communication skills. 

Job Specific Duties: 

Program Orientation 

Conducts orientation sessions; Ensures all necessary paperwork is secured, such as physician referrals, scholarship forms, etc., before patient begins program; Communicates by phone to each person entering Heart Strides (HS) to verify entry date and directions to Fitness Center for cardiac orientation or pulmonary consult. 

Program Education 

Provides Phase I education and program awareness to in-patient candidates; Participates in classes, monitoring participants, leading exercises, and providing educational sessions. 

Progress Monitoring 

Maintains a checklist to ensure that each participant in Heart Strides is completing all required components (e.g., six-minute walk tests, diet habit surveys, etc). Establishes goals with each participant and periodically monitor progress toward stated goals. 

Performance Improvement 

Assesses, develops and maintains Performance Improvement projects for the Heart Strides program. Reports specific project statistics to Coordinator and Director each month. 

Work Relationships 

Develops good working relationship with physicians and other pertinent healthcare professionals associated with Heart Strides.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.