Clinical Exercise Physiologist Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Clinical Exercise Physiologists can secure H-1B visa sponsorship at hospitals, cardiac rehabilitation centers, and research institutions. The role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation due to its requirement for specific exercise science education and clinical training in cardiovascular and metabolic health management. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Under direct supervision of a licensed medical professional, the Exercise Physiologist prepares patients and equipment for treatment. They assist the therapist in administering treatment to patients of varying ages ranging from infancy through late adulthood.
Job Description
Essential Functions:
Job Duties
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson. (Do not delete, move or over-write this statement)
- Develop exercise programs to improve participant strength, flexibility, endurance, or circulatory functioning, in accordance with exercise science standards, regulatory requirements, and credentialing requirements.
- Lead established exercise/rehab maintenance groups.
- Prescribe individualized exercise programs, specifying equipment such as treadmill, exercise bicycle, ergometers, or perceptual goggles.
- Interpret exercise program participant data to evaluate progress or identify needed program changes. Analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness of treatments or therapies.
- Prepares the treatment area, equipment and supplies relating to patient treatment for all division services to expedite the delivery of patient care. This includes calibrating and maintaining exercise or testing equipment and demonstrating correct use of exercise equipment or performance of exercise routine.
- Communicates impressions and objective information in a clear and timely manner to pertinent stakeholders to ensure efficient coordination and optimal outcomes information.
- Participates in the department’s performance improvement program.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Exercise Science or Exercise Physiology
- Less than 1 year of clinical practice
- Knowledge of and ability to assess clients and design exercise programs to enhance physical fitness, to promote health by reducing the risk of developing chronic disease and to ensure safety during exercise sessions.
- Knowledge of the prevention and treatment of intentional or unintentional injuries, ability to implement emergency procedures in accordance with appropriate safety plans.
- Knowledge of the human body's reactions and changes under acute and chronic exercise conditions, ability to measure, assess and adapt physiology during exercise.
- Knowledge of therapeutic methods and skills to develop, maintain and restore the optimal movement and functional ability of clients/patients, ability to skillfully deploy methods and skills in therapeutic cases to enhance the quality of life.
- Knowledge of the theories and methodologies for therapeutic progress assessment, ability to assess therapeutic progress to achieve therapeutic goals and ensure patient safety.
- Knowledge of and ability to provide or facilitate rehabilitation services to manage injuries and help injured people reclaim living or working capabilities.
- BLS - Basic Life Support AHA - American Heart Association
Additional Qualifications
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.
Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Primary Location Address
5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
Number of Positions In Requisition
1
Job Details
Under direct supervision of a licensed medical professional, the Exercise Physiologist prepares patients and equipment for treatment. They assist the therapist in administering treatment to patients of varying ages ranging from infancy through late adulthood.
Job Description
Essential Functions:
Job Duties
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson. (Do not delete, move or over-write this statement)
- Develop exercise programs to improve participant strength, flexibility, endurance, or circulatory functioning, in accordance with exercise science standards, regulatory requirements, and credentialing requirements.
- Lead established exercise/rehab maintenance groups.
- Prescribe individualized exercise programs, specifying equipment such as treadmill, exercise bicycle, ergometers, or perceptual goggles.
- Interpret exercise program participant data to evaluate progress or identify needed program changes. Analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness of treatments or therapies.
- Prepares the treatment area, equipment and supplies relating to patient treatment for all division services to expedite the delivery of patient care. This includes calibrating and maintaining exercise or testing equipment and demonstrating correct use of exercise equipment or performance of exercise routine.
- Communicates impressions and objective information in a clear and timely manner to pertinent stakeholders to ensure efficient coordination and optimal outcomes information.
- Participates in the department’s performance improvement program.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Exercise Science or Exercise Physiology
- Less than 1 year of clinical practice
- Knowledge of and ability to assess clients and design exercise programs to enhance physical fitness, to promote health by reducing the risk of developing chronic disease and to ensure safety during exercise sessions.
- Knowledge of the prevention and treatment of intentional or unintentional injuries, ability to implement emergency procedures in accordance with appropriate safety plans.
- Knowledge of the human body's reactions and changes under acute and chronic exercise conditions, ability to measure, assess and adapt physiology during exercise.
- Knowledge of therapeutic methods and skills to develop, maintain and restore the optimal movement and functional ability of clients/patients, ability to skillfully deploy methods and skills in therapeutic cases to enhance the quality of life.
- Knowledge of the theories and methodologies for therapeutic progress assessment, ability to assess therapeutic progress to achieve therapeutic goals and ensure patient safety.
- Knowledge of and ability to provide or facilitate rehabilitation services to manage injuries and help injured people reclaim living or working capabilities.
- BLS - Basic Life Support AHA - American Heart Association
Additional Qualifications
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.
Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Primary Location Address
5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Clinical Exercise Physiologist Jobs
Target specialized healthcare facilities
Focus on cardiac rehabilitation centers, pulmonary rehabilitation programs, and metabolic health clinics. These facilities understand the specialized nature of exercise physiology and are more likely to sponsor visas.
Emphasize clinical certifications
Highlight ACSM-CEP, RCEP, or other clinical exercise physiology certifications. These credentials demonstrate specialized knowledge that supports the specialty occupation requirement for H-1B petitions.
Research hospital systems with visa programs
Large hospital networks like Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente regularly sponsor visas for healthcare professionals including clinical exercise physiologists with specialized training.
Document your specialized education clearly
Ensure your degree transcript clearly shows coursework in exercise physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical exercise testing. This supports the degree-specific requirement for H-1B specialty occupation classification.
Consider research-focused positions initially
University medical centers and research hospitals may offer more visa sponsorship opportunities for exercise physiologists involved in cardiac rehabilitation research or metabolic syndrome studies.
Network through professional organizations
Join ACSM and attend regional meetings where hospital administrators and department heads recruit. Many visa sponsorship opportunities come through professional connections rather than job boards.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Clinical Exercise Physiologists qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship?
Yes, Clinical Exercise Physiologists typically qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as the role requires specialized education in exercise science, kinesiology, or related field. The position involves clinical assessment and exercise prescription that goes beyond general fitness training, meeting the specialty occupation standard.
What degree do I need for visa sponsorship as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist?
You need a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science, Kinesiology, Exercise Physiology, or closely related field. Your coursework should include pathophysiology, exercise testing, and clinical exercise prescription. A master's degree strengthens your H-1B petition and makes you more competitive with employers.
Which types of employers sponsor visas for Clinical Exercise Physiologists?
Hospitals with cardiac rehabilitation programs, outpatient rehabilitation centers, university medical centers, and specialized metabolic clinics most commonly sponsor visas. Large healthcare systems like Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and academic medical centers have established visa sponsorship programs for healthcare professionals.
How competitive is visa sponsorship for Clinical Exercise Physiologists?
Moderately competitive. While not as common as nursing or physical therapy sponsorship, hospitals recognize the specialized nature of clinical exercise physiology. Success depends on your clinical certifications, specialized training, and targeting facilities with established cardiac rehabilitation programs that understand the role's requirements.
Can I get sponsored without ACSM certification?
Yes, but it's significantly harder. While ACSM-CEP or RCEP certification isn't legally required for H-1B sponsorship, employers prefer certified candidates because it demonstrates specialized clinical knowledge. Without certification, you'll need strong academic credentials and relevant clinical experience to prove specialty occupation qualification.
How to find Clinical Exercise Physiologist jobs with visa sponsorship?
To find Clinical Exercise Physiologist jobs with visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate, which specializes in connecting international healthcare professionals with sponsored opportunities. Focus your search on rehabilitation centers, hospitals, sports medicine clinics, and cardiac rehabilitation facilities that commonly sponsor 482 TSS or 494 Skilled Regional visas for qualified exercise physiologists in Australia.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Clinical Exercise Physiologist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.