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Healthy Living Fitness Specialist (Health Care Services)
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What they do
A Health Educator creates programs that are designed to teach people and motivate them to follow healthy behaviors. Works with individual patients and families in a health care settings, or develops campaigns and materials directed to larger groups such as college students. Organizes events like health screenings, trainings for peer educators or professionals, or incentive programs like weight loss challenges. May advise on public health policy.
$58,627 / year median in Florida
+6% projected growth
Job Description
Salary:
$21.64- $39.00 Job Overview Maintains the day-to-day operations of the Healthy Living Centers. This includes conducting exercise classes both in person and online; providing orientation to participants on the use of exercise equipment; coordinating wellness education classes as well as other monthly special events. Core Competencies Customer Commitment
- Proactively seeks to understand the needs of the customers and provide the highest standards of service. Dedication to Professionalism and Integrity
- Demonstrates and promotes fair, honest, professional, and ethical behaviors that establishes trust throughout the organization and with the public we serve. Organizational Excellence
- Takes ownership for excellence through one's personal effectiveness and dedication to the continuous improvement of our operations. Success through Teamwork
- Collaborates and builds partnerships through trust and the open exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to achieve organizational goals.
Florida Driver's License Duties and Responsibilities Note:
The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Depending on assigned area of responsibility, incumbents in the position may perform one or more of the activities described below. Monitors Healthy Living Program participants to ensure they use fitness equipment and perform exercise safely and correctly. Facilitates member orientation upon initial participant enrollment. This includes explaining emergency protocols and any other information necessary to ensure complete understanding of rules and operations for members safety and enjoyment. Ensures that facility signage, equipment layout, and design are properly maintained; cleaning and disinfecting schedules are adhered to; environmental controls are monitored/maintained; ADA guidelines are followed, etc. Performs daily cleaning and wipe down of strength and cardiovascular equipment. Ensures that all maintenance tasks are completed on a weekly and monthly basis (extra cleaning). Confirms quarterly maintenance is completed by FitRev when scheduled. Provides wellness assessments consisting of the following to determine participant success and attainment of goals: Biometric measurements (BP, RHR, Body Comp) and health behavior screening. Uses this information to educate member and refers to other health disciplines, as necessary. Develops an exercise/workout program for each Healthy Living participant. Re-evaluates members on a periodic basis (6-12 weeks) to measure success. Interacts with community partners to develop and implement classes on exercise, nutrition, and other health related topics, and recruits participants for those classes from Healthy Living Program participants. This involves, but is not limited to, researching, and developing contacts and coordinating monthly health education classes for Healthy Living Centers; developing health education curriculum and instructing health education classes at the Healthy Living Centers; and conducting communication outreach events with the Health Care Services Outreach team. Pulls all provider referrals from ACES and contacts plan members to set-up appropriate consultations. Develops and conducts quarterly member activity incentive challenges. This includes creating the incentive challenge, developing all related programming and materials, and including additional targeted biometric and health behavior screenings. Instructs group fitness classes to include, but not limited to, basic step, toning, yoga, boot camp, Pilates, etc. Inputs participant information into database to track progress toward goals set during the pre- and post-assessments.
- Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.