Physical Therapist Assistant
Physical Therapist Assistant
📍 Rhode Island
💼 Full Time Hourly
🏢 Highbar Health
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Why Highbar?
We're looking for a Physical Therapist Assistant to Join the Movement!
We built Highbar for clinicians who want clarity, support, and a sustainable career, not just another offer.
Highbar Physical Therapy is a premier, PT-led outpatient practice across New England. We are a teaching practice by design, focused on empowering clinicians to practice at the top of their license while delivering exceptional patient care. Our care model is intentionally designed to prioritize clinical autonomy, reasonable caseload expectations, and built-in mentorship, so Clinicians can grow confidently without burning out.
What Your Day Actually Looks Like at Highbar:
We believe clarity builds trust. Here’s what you can expect:
- Patient volume: Lower than industry norms, our expectations are less than 13 patients per day
- Visit structure: 1:1 patient care
- Documentation: AI-supported documentation + Prompt EMR to reduce after-hours documentation
- Schedules: Predictable, thoughtfully built schedules
- Collaboration: You’ll work closely with Physical Therapists as part of a tight-knit care team, collaborating on treatment plans while having autonomy and managing your daily schedule and patient flow
- Support staff: Exercise Specialists to support treatment flow so you can focus on providing the highest level of patient care.
If something starts to creep toward burnout, leadership intervenes early. That’s part of the job design - not an afterthought.
Mentorship & Professional Development:
Highbar is a teaching practice by design. Professional development is part of your workweek - not something you squeeze in to meet your CEU requirements:
- 2 paid mentorship hours/week for your first 12 weeks
- Structured onboarding with a Clinic Director + Peer Mentor
- Monthly Skillz meetings (onsite CE, every month)
- Core-4 Series and COMT Pathways to align clinical decision-making and PATTOTL principles
- Specialty SIGs (Pelvic Health, Sports, Neuro, Vestibular, Pediatrics, and more)
We invest $7,000+ in your professional development in your first 18–24 months!
You'll Thrive at Highbar if You Value:
- Practicing as a clinician—not a productivity unit
- Autonomy paired with real support
- Clear expectations around workload and growth
- Leadership with clinical backgrounds
- Feedback that’s welcomed and acted on
What You'll Need:
- Degree from a CAPTE-accredited Physical Therapist Assistant program
- Active PTA license (or eligibility to obtain one)
- A desire to grow clinically, contribute to a team, and practice thoughtfully
Compensation
Salary based on experience
Total Compensation Package includes:
- Uncapped bonus potential
- Student loan assistance that continues until your loans are paid off
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Exclusive H-Shares
- Paid holidays & PTO
- Relocation assistance (when applicable)
- Fitness & wellness benefits
- Employee home-buying assistance
- Community volunteer opportunities
We don’t believe in flashy perks that distract from unsustainable workloads. Compensation here is designed to support both your career growth and your financial goals.
Take the next step in your PT career with Highbar Physical Therapy - Apply today!
If you’re early in your career or looking for a healthier long-term home, we encourage you to explore Highbar and take the time you need to make sure it’s the right fit.
We are redefining what outpatient physical therapy can feel like, for clinicians and patients alike. Our clinicians practice at the top of their license, serve as musculoskeletal primary care providers, and grow through clearly defined clinical and leadership pathways.
Highbar is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or veteran status.
What Happens Next
Our Simple 3-Step Process
- 1Just your name, contact info, and resume. No cover letter required.
- 2A quick, relaxed conversation to learn about you and answer your questions.
- 3See the space, meet your potential colleagues, and get a feel for our culture.
Why Physical Therapists Choose Highbar
Practice at a Higher Level
Autonomy, intention, and evidence-driven care — supported by the time, tools, and trust to do your best work.
Mentorship That Matters
Learn alongside experienced clinicians who are genuinely invested in your growth — not just your productivity.
A Clear Career Trajectory
Defined pathways to specialization, leadership, and long-term momentum — with support at every stage.
A Culture That Supports You
A collaborative team environment designed to protect quality care, professional growth, and sustainability.
About Highbar Physical Therapy
Highbar Physical Therapy is the parent network behind three of New England's most established outpatient PT brands — Joint Ventures Physical Therapy (Boston), Peak Physical Therapy (South Shore Massachusetts), and Physical Therapy U (Rhode Island and Massachusetts).
Each one is a Highbar practice: a clinic that keeps its own name, neighborhood roots, and local identity while sharing the clinical standards, residency-trained clinicians, and patient experience that define the Highbar network. The brands stay distinct because the communities they serve do.
Whether you walk into a JVPT clinic in Boston, a Peak clinic on the South Shore, or a PTU clinic in Rhode Island, you're walking into a Highbar practice — same standard of care, same commitment to getting you back to what you love, delivered by the local team you already know.
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