Position Summary

The Physical Therapist will Deliver high-quality, evidence-based physical therapy services to active individuals across the lifespan, with a focus on orthopedic and sports-related conditions. Promote optimal movement, performance, and recovery through individualized care plans, patient education, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Other duties must be performed as assigned or required.

• Perform comprehensive evaluations for musculoskeletal and sports-related injuries using advanced clinical reasoning and standardized outcome measures.
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans targeting pain reduction, mobility restoration, strength optimization, and return to sport readiness.
• Provide hands-on manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, neuromuscular reeducation, and sport-specific training.
• Document evaluations, progress notes, and discharge summaries in alignment with payer guidelines and clinic standards.
• Collaborate with referring physicians, athletic trainers, and other healthcare professionals to coordinate care and optimize outcomes.
• Educate patients on injury prevention, biomechanics, and performance enhancement strategies.
• Track progress using validated outcome tools (e.g., LEFS, DASH, PSFS) and adjust plans based on clinical findings and patient goals.
• Participate in team meetings, mentorship, and continuing education to maintain clinical excellence.
• Support clinic outreach, workshops, and performance screenings as needed.
• Work toward continuous quality improvement.
• Stay current with changing technology, including software and physical therapy programs.
• Uphold, support, and promote all company policies and procedures.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: The Physical Therapist has supervisory responsibility for the Outpatient Physical Therapy Department, including providing clinical oversight to students and clinical direction to Physical Therapist Assistants; does not supervise departments or have formal administrative reports

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, the individual in this position must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skills, and ability required.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Proficient. Ability to use/navigate the Internet and email, computers, word processing, graphics and multimedia, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Ability to create presentations and spreadsheets.
• Utilization and proficiency in industry-specific software.

Intellectual Demands: The intellectual demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Frequent: Problem solving.
• Constant: Written and verbal communication, organization, interpersonal skills, concentration, creativity, working with interruptions, clinical judgement, patient education, documentation.
• Occasional: Money handling, calculating

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Constant: Standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing/listening, using hands, reaching, climbing/balancing, stooping/kneeling/crouching/crawling, lifting/transferring patients, pushing/pulling equipment, adjusting/positioning patients.
• Frequent: Lifting up to 10–25 pounds.
• Frequent: Lifting up to 50–100 pounds.
• Occasional: Lifting more than 100 pounds, travel, taste, or smell

Physical demand requirements listed are primarily applied to:

• Frequent standing, walking, and dynamic movement during patient care.
• Occasional lifting of equipment or assisting with patient transfers (up to 50 lbs).
• Requires fine motor skills, visual acuity, and physical agility for manual therapy and sport-specific drills
• Vision – Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right, while eyes are fixed on a given point), Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships), and Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
• Vision requirements listed are primarily applied to use of computers, written documentation, patient observation during therapy, and mobility training.

Education & Experience

• Master's degree (M. A.) or equivalent; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. (Required)
• Active state license to practice as a Physical Therapist (required)
• Current CPR certification (required)
• APTA membership (preferred, not required)
• Doctoral degree (Ph. D.) or equivalent; or more than 10 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. (Preferred)