Description

Position Description:

As the Director of Medical Exercise (Fitness pillar) at CoreLife you will ensure consistency and quality in the application of CoreLife’s Fitness service line as you continually enhance service offerings to adapt to the changing healthcare landscape. You are responsible for providing clinical care, medical fitness oversight, operational support, as well as comprehensive leadership and mentorship for CoreLife fitness specialists within your defined market. You must work cross functionally with other service line directors and their teams on a daily basis, driving positive health outcomes, patient retention, and business development. You must maintain a high quality of care by overseeing your market’s fitness specialists, their performance metrics, communication with patients, and interaction with other teammates across disciplines. Time spent will be allocated approximately 50% clinical patient care and 50% administrative.

Leader Responsibilities:

• Evaluate performance and competence on an on-going basis, ensuring that the teammates are competent to provide quality exercise services as governed by CoreLife Policies and Procedures.
• Provide orientation, in-service and continuing education, as needed, to maintain qualified and competent teammates.
• Participate in the recruitment, selection and training of newly hired teammates.  Engage in ongoing teammate satisfaction and retention activities and efforts
• Generate necessary reports from various sources to tabulate appropriate daily, weekly, monthly and ad hoc data sets.  Compile data to report on pillar KPIs and overall performance. Develop and implement action plans when KPIs are not achieved.
• Address and respond to patient and teammate concerns related to the services provided within the fitness pillar
• Liaison for fitness partnership programs; upload patient data, ensure reimbursement is correct, perform audits and connect with programs as appropriate.  Seek and evaluate new partnerships to enhance the fitness product offerings within CoreLife
• Perform studies and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of CoreLife’s fitness services in accordance with evolving standards of care for weight management
• Maintain knowledge regarding the duties of all staff and ability to perform all functions as needed. Must be able to provide on site support when assigned clinic staff is unavailable.
• Participate in audits, evaluations, and corrective action plans as needed to evaluate, upskill and correct teammate services provided to patients.
• Conduct monthly group meetings with all service-line teammates to ensure ongoing education, cohesion and consistency across the individual offices.
• Perform frequent and regular clinic visits to monitor performance and adjust region strategies.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leadership to ensure integration of the fitness pillar in the CoreLife care model.
• Oversee the refinement of the fitness program to reflect up-to-date, evidence-based, and clinically integrated methodologies
• Perform other duties as required or assigned by Market Leadership 

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Critical thinking to integrate facts, informed opinions, active listening, and observations.
• Decision making, problem solving and collaboration.
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish productive working relationships with multidisciplinary teams and leadership.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to patients and clinic staff.
• Ability to counsel and motivate others, as individuals and as a group.
• General knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and professional presentation software.
• Flexibility to adapt to changes in medical protocols and policy. 

Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in exercise science, exercise physiology, or a related field (Required)

Licensure/Certification/Affiliation:

• Certification in exercise physiology by either the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM - EP) or the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP - EPC) (Required)
• Current CPR/AED certification (Required)