Exercise Specialist
Your Opportunity:
Working collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals, the Exercise Specialist (ES) is responsible for development of the medically supervised exercise programming for patients living with or at risk for chronic conditions. This position involves exercise tolerance testing and measurement procedures for the purpose of development, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of the exercise programs. As a member of the Alberta Healthy Living Program (AHLP) team the ES is involved in facilitating supervised exercise, client education, consultation, evaluation, and virtual/telephone care of the client. Under limited supervision, the ES will have a responsibility for ensuring patient safety through disease specific education, continuous monitoring of individualized progressive exercise, symptom management during exercise, and assessment/consultation via in-person, virtual, or telephone consultation.
Description:
As an Exercise Specialist, you will be working collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team, delivering exercise assessment, training, rehabilitation, risk factor identification, exercise programs and self-management services for individuals and/or groups of patients within a designated portfolio. You will facilitate improvements using a patient-and family-centred model of practice where you will deliver ongoing patient education (in the form of individual, small or large classroom settings) to patients, family members, and other healthcare professionals as part of the rehabilitation plan. You will be involved with program delivery and client care, program planning, program promotion, and program evaluation.
- Classification: Exercise Specialist
- Union: HSAA Prof/Tech
- Unit and Program: Alberta Healthy Living Program/CDM - Melcor Center
- Primary Location: Melcor Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.50
- Posting End Date: 17-SEP-2026
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- Date Available: 05-OCT-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 4
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $44.93
- Maximum Salary: $59.68
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Completion of bachelor's degree in Kinesiology, Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, or equivalent exercise science degree. Active membership with the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology, and Clinical Exercise Physiologist and/or American College of Sport Medicine, Exercise Specialist.
Additional Required Qualifications:Completion of bachelor's degree in Kinesiology, Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, or equivalent exercise science degree. Active membership with the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology, and Clinical Exercise Physiologist. 2- 3 years exercise program design, testing and monitoring of patients with various chronic conditions (i.e. Obesity, Diabetes, Chronic Pain, Congestive Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart Disease, etc.). Exercise physiology experience within clinical setting in the areas of, exercise programming, lifestyle counselling, goal setting and self-management. Advanced assessment and critical thinking skills in the area of exercise physiology, for example exercise tolerance testing and measurement procedures as it relates to chronic disease prevention and management for the purpose of development, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of the exercise programs.
Preferred Qualifications:As required.
