Kinesiologist - Orthopedic Assessment Clinic

**Req ID**:203676**
**Location**:Northern** Zone,**Aberdeen Hospital**
**Department**:OPNZ Occupaitonal Therapy OAC - ARH**
**Type of Employment**:Casual**Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x**1**
**CUPE** **Healthcare** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:29-May-25**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Health Services Manager, the Kinesiologist is responsible for development, implementation, and continuous quality improvement of program components - particularly in exercise, physical activity, and healthy lifestyle counselling - that aims to optimize healthy lifestyle choices, health promotion, and chronic disease prevention/management in an oupatient and a community setting.

The Kinesiologist assesses clients with a wide range of risk factors, chronic conditions, and limitations. Person and family centered interventions are developed using exercise, health education/wellness learning programs, and behavior change and self-management principles.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from an accredited university
- Minimum of two years’ experience in physical activity/exercise and lifestyle education, testing, instruction, and programming
- Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology Certified Exercise Physiologist (CSEP-CEP) and /or American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Exercise Specialist Certification required
- Advanced knowledge, skills, and proficiency in the areas of exercise physiology, aging, nutrition, etc.
- Experience with individual and group education and facilitation utilizing adult education and motivational enhancement principals
- Demonstrates person centered/family focused, diversity relevant and population heath approaches to care
- Well-developed interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Demonstrates flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to change
- Demonstrates innovation in program planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Demonstrates strong partnership, collaboration, and community development skills
- Demonstrates quality improvement planning skills

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Long Assignment, Full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
- This position is approximately 14 months in length

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$32.55 - $38.94 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.