Fitness Specialist - Franklin, TN

FOX Rehabilitation • TN - Tennessee Central, TN

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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 the Franklin, Tennessee area. The role is suited to a personal trainer, exercise science graduate, or certified fitness professional interested in healthy aging, fall prevention, and functional fitness for seniors.

This is a part-time position of approximately 15 hours per week, with the opportunity to grow the caseload and hours. The Fitness Specialist serves as the primary wellness professional embedded in a Senior Living Community, delivering evidence-based programming through group classes, individual personal training, and partner training. The current schedule is Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., with flexibility to adjust as needed.

The specialist builds resident engagement and participation, develops a personal-training client base, and works with FOX physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists. The role includes explaining wellness programming to residents and families, traveling to patient residences for house-call sessions, and potentially expanding into additional communities as the territory grows. FOX describes its practice as clinician-operated and focused on meaningful relationships, evidence-based care, and abolishing ageism. The role may include telehealth or virtual care components and offers an interdisciplinary, community-based setting supporting 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 presenting 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 assist with patient transfers and bed mobility, including repositioning a bed-bound patient independently.
• Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including lifting and exerting specified levels of force, extended standing and walking, and activities such as stooping, sitting, bending, pulling, climbing, reaching, kneeling, crouching, and running.
• Fit to drive for the House Calls setting.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Personal Trainer credential through ACSM, NSCA, NASM, ACE, or ISSA.
• Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science, Kinesiology, or Exercise Physiology.
• Prior fitness training experience, with willingness to obtain CPT certification if not already certified.

Responsibilities

• Lead group exercise classes and provide one-on-one and partner training for older adults.
• Grow resident engagement and participation in group classes and build a 1:1 and partner-training client base.
• Collaborate with FOX Physical and Occupational Therapists and Speech Language Pathologists, including building referral relationships as patients transition out of rehabilitation.
• Educate residents, family members, and power-of-attorney contacts about the benefits of wellness programming.
• Travel to patient residences for house-call sessions and potentially serve additional communities as the territory grows.
• Use basic computer skills for documentation and scheduling and respond to communications through email, Teams, text, and phone.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time