Fitness Specialist- Scottsdale, AZ

FOX Rehabilitation • Scottsdale, AZ

2d • Onsite

About The Position

FOX Rehabilitation is hiring a Fitness Specialist to lead group exercise and personal training for older adults at a Senior Living Community in Scottsdale, Arizona. This part-time position is approximately two hours per week, with a path to grow caseload and hours. The Fitness Specialist serves as the primary wellness professional embedded in a community, delivering evidence-based fitness programming through group classes, individual personal training, and partner training sessions.

The current schedule is at Revel McDowell Mountain on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. The classes are for independent-living residents and include seated strengthening on Tuesday and stretching and balance on Thursday. The role involves building resident engagement and a training client base, collaborating with FOX's therapy team, and educating residents and families about wellness programming. Sessions may also take place at patient residences, with opportunities to expand into additional communities as the territory grows.

FOX Rehabilitation is a clinician-operated practice focused on meaningful relationships, evidence-based care, and abolishing ageism. The role offers work in senior living communities and in-home settings, possible telehealth or virtual care components, autonomous program development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a community-based approach that supports independence, wellness, and longevity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science, Kinesiology, or Exercise Physiology; or certification as a Personal Trainer through a nationally accredited organization; or prior fitness training experience with willingness to obtain CPT certification.
• Experience or strong interest in working with older adults in a proactive, wellness-focused setting.
• Comfort communicating and educating residents and families about wellness program benefits.
• Ability to travel between Senior Living Communities and patient residences as needed.
• Current CPR certification.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and responsiveness to email, Teams, text, and phone.
• Basic computer skills for documentation and scheduling.
• Ability to perform CPR and provide moderate to maximum assistance with patient transfers and bed mobility.
• Ability to reposition a bed-bound patient independently.
• Ability to stoop, sit, bend, pull, climb, reach, kneel, crouch, climb stairs, and stand for extended periods.
• Ability to undertake prolonged intense physical exertion, including running, lifting, and stretching, and repetitive upper-extremity movements.
• Fit to drive for the house-calls setting.
• Ability to meet the stated medium strength demands: exert 25–50 lbs. of force occasionally, 10–25 lbs. frequently, and up to 10 lbs. constantly.
• Regularly able to talk and hear; close vision and ability to adjust focus; frequently able to stand, walk, use hands to feel, and reach with hands and arms.

Nice To Haves

• Personal Trainer certification through ACSM, NSCA, NASM, ACE, or ISSA.
• Experience or interest in fitness programming for older adults.

Responsibilities

• Lead group exercise classes and provide one-on-one and partner personal training for older adults.
• Build resident engagement to increase group class participation and develop a personal and partner training client base.
• Build relationships with FOX Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech Language Pathologists to support referrals from rehabilitation to wellness.
• Educate residents, family members, and power-of-attorney contacts about the benefits of wellness programming.
• Travel to patient residences for house-call sessions and expand into additional communities as the territory grows.
• Deliver seated strengthening, stretching, and balance classes for independent-living residents.
• Document and schedule services using basic computer skills.

Benefits

• Potential telehealth or virtual care components that expand flexibility and access.
• Opportunity to autonomously drive growth of FOX Wellness.
• Collaborative interdisciplinary environment with Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, and Fitness Specialists.
• Community-based practice supporting independence, wellness, and longevity.
• Culture that invests in provider growth and values provider-driven decision-making.
• Opportunities to work in both in-home and senior living community settings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time