Physical Therapist - Practice Owner within a Clinic Space
Listed compensation
$200K+
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Job Description
Physical Therapist - Practice Owner within Location
Your practice. Your schedule. A space to grow.
About the Opportunity
Build and lead your own physical therapy clinic as an Independent Practice Owner, with a fully equipped office space. You call the shots on patient care and grow a practice that’s truly yours, while Prava takes on the lease, the financial risk, and the operational heavy lifting. It’s the rare chance to own your practice without the startup costs or headaches.
Prava Therapy is looking for a physical therapist who wants to build their own outpatient practice in Hickory. You’ll see patients in a clinic next door to a podiatrist, set your schedule, and grow a caseload that reflects your clinical interests.
What You Get
A clinic that’s ready on day one: Space is full funded and furnished, including treatment equipment, so there’s no build-out, no startup loan, and no lease on your name
Your brand, your equity: You own the clinic name, website, and domain, and you build lasting value in your practice’s identity
True clinical autonomy: You have final say on evaluations, plans of care, visit frequency, and discharge. Business goals never override medical necessity
Zero back-office work: Prava handles payer contracting, credentialing, billing, collections, EHR, and patient intake, along with AI-driven tools that cut documentation time
Business coaching: You get marketing support, referral development, and a dedicated business strategist who works alongside you to grow your local reputation
A team you choose: Hire, mentor, and lead the PTs and PTAs who join your practice
What You Bring
- Active state license as a Physical Therapist (PT) in good standing
- A mindset ready to take the first steps towards practice ownership
- Motivation to grow through patient relationships, community outreach and collaboration
- An entrepreneurial mindset and a desire to lead and market a local clinic
- Experience or interest in supervising PTs and PTAs
- You don’t need a fully built practice to start. You do need the initiative to build one
Compensation
Earn $200K+ a year as your clinic matures
Work Location: In person in Hickory, North Carolina
About Prava
Prava is a venture-backed growth platform that helps ambitious therapists launch and scale independent practices. We provide the infrastructure (credentialing, EHR, billing, referrals, AI tools, and dedicated business support) so you can focus on clinical excellence and building a business you own.
Join Prava in your next endeavor as we scale, and help build the model for what independent practice should look like.
Learn more at pravatherapy.com or apply here to connect with our recruiting team.
Key Responsibilities
Build and lead an independent outpatient physical therapy practice, providing patient care and making decisions about evaluations, treatment plans, visit frequency, and discharge. Set the clinic schedule, develop the local practice, and hire, mentor, and lead physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
Requirements
Applicants must hold an active physical therapist license in good standing in the state and be motivated to build and lead a local practice. An entrepreneurial mindset, interest in marketing and community collaboration, and experience or interest in supervising physical therapists and physical therapist assistants are sought.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Physical Therapist Career Context
In North Carolina, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$90k (470 salary observations; 2,005 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (12,288 salary observations; 64,780 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-11-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Physical Therapy median $90k (middle half $88k–$100k)17 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| North Carolina vs national | $90k median in North Carolina | $94k nationally (−4%)470 state / 12,288 national salary observations |
| Cost of living | North Carolina index 94.3 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Physical Therapy listings in North Carolina | 755 active | 21,898 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 48% no call · 54% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | North Carolina physical therapist listings (all specialties): 32% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 27% offer loan repayment787 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Physical Therapy listings | 7,999 in the last 30 days | 4,222 the 30 days before (+89%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Physical Therapy pay trend | +1.8% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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