Physical Therapist | Hospital-Based Therapy Services
🌱 Rooted Insights
🌿 Best Fit For: A PT seeking broad inpatient and outpatient exposure in a collaborative hospital setting.
🌿 Career Growth: New graduates are accepted, making this a strong environment for building a well-rounded foundation.
🌿 Patient Population: Provide individualized rehabilitation for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
🌿 Recruiter's Perspective: This opportunity combines direct patient impact, clinical variety, and long-term career stability.
Position Highlights
✔ Location: Upper Cumberland Region of Tennessee
✔ Setting: Hospital-based inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation
✔ Employment Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire | Permanent Placement
✔ Schedule: Days
✔ Compensation: $38.00–$50.00 per hour
✔ Incentives: Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
This hospital-based physical therapy opportunity gives you the chance to evaluate and treat patients across inpatient and outpatient services while helping them improve mobility, strength, safety, and independence. The role is grounded in individualized care and measurable functional outcomes.
You will work with a diverse rehabilitation population and collaborate with an interdisciplinary clinical team. That variety can be especially valuable for physical therapists who want to strengthen clinical reasoning across multiple diagnoses and levels of care.
The organization is open to both experienced clinicians and new graduates. For an early-career PT, this can provide a meaningful opportunity to grow in a structured clinical environment; for an experienced therapist, it offers the stability and variety of a permanent hospital-based role.
The Upper Cumberland region offers a welcoming Tennessee lifestyle with access to outdoor recreation, an affordable pace of life, and convenient connections to larger communities.
What You'll Do
✔ Perform comprehensive physical therapy evaluations
✔ Develop individualized treatment plans and measurable functional goals
✔ Provide skilled interventions to improve mobility, strength, balance, and independence
✔ Monitor patient progress and adjust treatment plans as clinically appropriate
✔ Educate patients and families on mobility, safety, and home recommendations
✔ Document evaluations, treatments, progress, and discharge planning accurately
✔ Collaborate with physicians, nurses, rehabilitation professionals, and support staff
✔ Follow department, regulatory, safety, and quality standards
✔ Contribute to department workflow and quality-improvement activities
Minimum Qualifications
Required
✔ Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited program
✔ Tennessee Physical Therapist license or eligibility to obtain Tennessee licensure
✔ Ability to evaluate patients and create individualized plans of care
✔ Strong communication, clinical judgment, documentation, and teamwork skills
Preferred
· Previous physical therapy experience is preferred
· New graduates are welcome and encouraged to apply
· Hospital-based inpatient or outpatient experience is helpful but not required
Compensation & Benefits
✔ $38.00–$50.00 per hour
✔ Group life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance plan
✔ 401(k) retirement plan
✔ Paid time off (PTO)
✔ Short-term disability bank
✔ Educational classes
✔ Medical insurance
✔ Dental insurance
✔ 529 college savings plan
✔ 457 retirement plan
✔ Optional life insurance
✔ Long-term disability
✔ Cancer expense protection policy
✔ Intensive care policy
✔ Dependent care spending account
✔ Pet insurance
✔ Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates
🌱 Interested?
Even if this opportunity isn't the perfect fit, we'd still love to connect.
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Reach out to The Good Soil Staffing Company to learn more about this opportunity—or others that may better align with your career goals.
🌱 About The Good Soil Staffing Company
The Good Soil Staffing Company specializes exclusively in full-time, direct-hire Allied Health recruitment.
We partner with healthcare organizations across the country to connect exceptional clinicians with meaningful long-term career opportunities. Our approach is built on honest communication, confidential representation, and personalized career guidance throughout your job search.
When you partner with Good Soil, you'll work directly with a recruiter who understands Allied Health careers and is committed to helping you find the right long-term opportunity—not simply your next job.