Job Description
Job Title: Physical Therapist (PT) Outpatient
Location: South Carolina (Sumter)
Contract Type: Traveler
Start Date: 08/17/2026.
Pay Range: Competitive
Come for the role. Stay for the people. Explore exciting job opportunities and take the next step toward the career you deserve. Build your future with a team that invests in your development and gives you the tools to succeed.
Role Overview: This role involves guiding patients through therapeutic exercises, monitoring progress, and adjusting treatments to support recovery from injuries or medical conditions in a clinical setting.
Requirements: - 1 year experience required.
- Flu Vaccine Required – No exemptions.
- 1 st time travelers accepted.
- EPIC Charting System preferred.
- Outpatient experience required.
- Rehabilitation hospital experience preferred.
- Lifting and transfer skillset required.
- Certifications Required: BLS, Dry Needling, Manual Therapy
- State PT Licensure from the Board of PT Examiners or PT Compact Commission.
Required Skills: - Work Setting: Outpatient Clinic
- Orthopedics: Osteoarthritis, Sciatica, Spinal Conditions
- Assessment: Vital Sign monitoring
- Documentation: Assessment, Discharge, Evaluation, Long Term Goals, Plan of Care, Reassessments, RUG Levels, Short Term Goals, Time Management
- Equipment and Devices: Bed alarms, Call lights, Crutches, Gait belt, Hospital beds/Specialty Beds, Hoyer lift, Lower extremity prosthetics, Rolling Walker, Shoulder slings, Sit to stand lift, Sliding boards, Soft/Hard collars, Specialty beds (air mattresses), Standard Walker, Supplemental oxygen delivery, Traction table, Upper extremity prosthetics, Wheelchair Assessment
Preferred Skills / Certs / Exp :
- Certifications preferred Hand Therapy, Wound Care
- Work Setting: Acute Care, Rehabilitation Hospital
- Assessment: AROM/AAROM/PROM, Assistive Devices, Body Mechanics, Identifying Environmental Barriers, Pain assessment, Strength testing
- Orthopedics: Ankle sprains, Cervicalgia, Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD), Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD), Elbow injuries/tendinopathy, Extremity Mobilization, Frozen shoulder, Gait training, Hip fractures/injuries, Knee injuries/tendinopathy, LE Amputations, Low back pain, Lumbar Traction, McKenzie, Myofascial Release, Osteoarthritis, Pelvic floor training, Post op cervical surgery, Post op shoulder repair, Post op spinal surgery, Postpartum care, Prosthetic training, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sciatica, Spinal Conditions, Spinal mobilizations, Taping, Temporomandibular Joint Disease (TMJ),Total hip replacement, Total knee replacement, UE Amputations
- Equipment and Devices: Compression devices for lymphedema, Paraffin Bath
- Cardiopulmonary/Circulatory: Breathing Techniques, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG), Cystic fibrosis, Emphysema, Lobe clearance techniques, Lymphedema management, Myocardial Infarction (MI), Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
- Modalities: Cervical Traction, Cryotherapy, Diathermy, E-stim, Hubbard Tank, Hydrotherapy, Iontophoresis, Lumbar Traction, Moist Heat, Phonophoresis, TENS, Ultrasound
- Neurologic: Cognitive disorders, Concussion, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular dystrophy, Nerve Palsy, Neurodevelopmental Technique (NDT), Parkinson’s disease, Post Stroke Rehabilitation, Spinal cord injury, Traumatic Brain injury
- Specialty/Patient Population: Geriatrics, Orthopedics, Sport Medicine, Wound care
Professional Skills and Knowledge - Home Exercise Program
- Lifting and transfer
- Patient family education
- Signs & Symptoms physical, sexual, psychological abuse
Schedule: Monday-Thursday: 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM (1 hour lunch 12:00 – 1:00 PM) = 9 hours/day x 4 days Friday: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM (no lunch)
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