Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist

Overview

As a Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist (Phase
3) at the YMCA of Springfield you will assist in designing and facilitating a program to help patients sustain the health improvements they made in earlier phases, particularly after completing Phase 2 at a hospital or outpatient rehab program. As the YMCA Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist, you help patients maintain and reinforce a heart-healthy lifestyle through supervised exercise, education, and ongoing support, ensuring patients transition successfully from hospital-based rehabilitation to independent, long-term wellness.

Phase 3 focuses on long-term lifestyle habitsand independent exercise maintenance. It builds on the progress from Phase 2 by:

• Continuing supervised exercise in a supportive environment
• Encouraging self-management of heart-healthy routines
• Preventing relapses into unhealthy behaviors
• Improving overall cardiovascular fitness and quality of life.

Assess and monitor
patient progress through periodic evaluations including but not limited to Blood Pressure measurement and Blood Ox measurements before and after exercising.

Design individualized exercise programs
using available equipment (cardio, strength, free weights) and group classes (land/water fitness).

Provide education
on heart-healthy living, stress management, nutrition, and smoking cessation.

Offer check-ins and guidance
to program participants (e.g., Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays).

Collaborate
with Cardiac Rehab Phase 2 providers in the community.

Motivate and support
patients in maintaining exercise and healthy habits independently.

Protecting Youth & Vulnerable Populations

Overarching Goal: Through their training, best practice, monitoring. supervision, vigilance, and reporting maintain an environment and culture where all are safe from harmful actions of others physically, psychologically, and behavioral.

Employees and volunteers who directly supervise consumers will:

• Adhere to policies related to boundaries with consumers.
• Attend required abuse risk management training.
• Adhere to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising
• Report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
• Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.

Employees and volunteers who do not directly supervise consumers will:

• Adhere to policies related to boundaries with consumers.
• Attend required abuse risk management training.
• Report suspicious and inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
• Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.
• Adhere to job specific abuse risk management responsibilities.
• Maintenance employees and volunteers—ensure unused rooms and closets remain locked; routinely monitor high-risk locations (locker-rooms and bathrooms), etc.
• Front desk personnel—ensure consumers are properly signed in (and where applicable, signed out, ensures only authorized adults are allowed in the facility, etc.

Supervisors and administrators will:

• Follow employees and volunteers’ screening requirements and use screening instruments to screen for abuse risk.
• Provide employees and volunteers with on-going supervision and training related to abuse risk.
• Provide employees and volunteers with regular feedback regarding their boundaries with consumers.
• Require employees and volunteers to adhere to policies and procedures related to abuse risk.
• Respond quickly to policy and procedure violations using the organization’s progressive disciplinary procedures.
• Respond seriously and confidentially to reports of suspicious and inappropriate behavior.
• Follow mandated reporting requirements.
• Communicate to all employees and volunteers the organization’s commitment to protect their consumers from abuse.

OUR SERVICE EXPECTATIONS:

• Display a friendly, helpful,and positive disposition.
• Provide customer service that is thorough,timely, organized,and accurate.
• Help ensure the Yis meeting member and participant needs byutilizinggood listening skills, attentiveness, objectivity,and patience in all situations.
• Place members and participants as the first and highest priority showing kindness and compassion at all times.
• Demonstrates the Ycore values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility through all…