# Exercise Physiologist / Strength & Conditioning Coach

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Park City, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $24.30 - $37.52
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Exercise Physiologist / Strength & Conditioning Coach plays a key role in delivering high-quality performance training and evidence-based physiological assessments within a multidisciplinary sports performance clinic.

This role focuses on optimising athletic performance, enhancing movement quality, reducing injury risk, and supporting return-to-sport programming in collaboration with physical therapists, athletic trainers, sports medicine physicians, and other performance staff.

**Performance Training & Coaching**

- Design and deliver individualised and group-based strength and conditioning programs for youth, collegiate, recreational, and professional athletes.

- Conduct movement assessments, performance testing, and periodic re-evaluations to track progress and adjust programming.

- Coach athletes in proper lifting mechanics, speed development, agility, conditioning, and recovery strategies.

- Provide on-floor supervision to ensure safe, effective, and technically sound training sessions.

- Implement coaching for 1:1 to large group training sessions.

**Exercise Physiology & Assessment**

- Learn, test, and interpret biomechanical assessment and force plate data and communicate objectives with physicians, physical therapists, athletes, parents, coaches, and athletic trainers.

- Test lactate threshold, body composition, HRV, and metabolic assessments and aggregate with wearable data to guide training decisions.

- Interpret physiological and performance data to create targeted interventions.

- Collaborate with clinical staff and high school athletic trainers to develop return-to-play conditioning progressions.

**Collaboration & Communication**

- Work closely with physical therapists and rehab professionals to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and sport performance.

- Communicate regularly with athletes, parents, coaches, and medical providers regarding progress and training recommendations.

- Maintain detailed, accurate documentation of training plans, assessments, and outcomes.

**Program Development**

- Assist in developing and enhancing sports performance programs, specialty group classes, and seasonal training camps.

- Contribute to community outreach, workshops, and educational events.

- Stay current with emerging research, technologies, and coaching methodologies.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology, Exercise Science, Kinesiology, or a related field at an accredited institution.

- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Certification in one or more of the following: CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist – NSCA), ACSM-EP (Exercise Physiologist – ACSM), NASM-PES or equivalent performance certification.

- Experience coaching athletes in a performance or team environment.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

- Experience working within an interdisciplinary sports medicine or rehabilitation setting.

- Familiarity with technology such as force plates, GPS systems, VALD, timing gates, or metabolic analyzers.

- Experience with return-to-sport or post-rehabilitation performance programming.

- Master's degree strongly preferred for physiology-focused roles.

**Physical Requirements**

- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.

- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients.

- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment.

## Skills

### Required
- Athlete-centered coaching
- Critical thinking and problem-solving
- Evidence-based practice
- Collaboration in a multidisciplinary environment
- Professionalism and leadership
- Communication and relationship building with key stakeholders
- Adaptability and creativity in program design

### Nice to have
- CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist – NSCA)
- ACSM-EP (Exercise Physiologist – ACSM)
- NASM-PES or equivalent performance certification
- Experience coaching athletes in a performance or team environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience working within an interdisciplinary sports medicine or rehabilitation setting
- Familiarity with technology such as force plates, GPS systems, VALD, timing gates, or metabolic analyzers

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