Physical Therapist (PT) PRN
Listed compensation
$65 per hour
The week · per this posting
Schedule not stated in this posting — no days, weekends, call or nights given.
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
Penn State Health Rehabilitation HospitalIn parternship with Select MedicalPosition: Physical TherapistLocation: Hummelstown, PASchedule: Per Diem
- Compensation: $65.00 per hour
- Make A Difference at Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital
Culture: Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to staff engagement, collaboration, and innovation. We support a dynamic interdisciplinary team with a focus on inclusion and patient success. The Therapy and nursing teams are close partners and support each other to increase patient outcomes. Our setting is designed to give each patient your full attention, with time to truly make a difference.
State of the art technology: Specialized equipment such as a functional ADL suite, upper extremity systems, Exoskeleton, functional electrical stim bike, lower extermity systems, and unweighting gait mobiliation device.
Invest In Your Future: Full-time team members are eligible for student loan assistance after their first 90 days of tenure and free CEUs through Select University.
Responsibilities
- Performing initial and ongoing systematic patient assessment.
- Promoting continuous quality improvement.
- Teaching and counseling patients/families.
- Setting goals and developing treatment plans.
- Working cooperatively to identify and solve patient-specific and facility-wide needs.
- Participating in discharge planning for each patient, including placement, patient/family education and adaptive equipment.
- Supervising Physical Therapy Assistants, as well as supervising PT and PTA students.
- Conducting individual patient therapy regimens.
- Monitoring patient's response to treatment and modifying treatment during sessions, as needed.
- Completing appropriate documentation according to department policies and procedures.
- Participating in departmental, hospital, and community continuing education seminars and in-services.
Minimum Qualifications
- State Licensure: Hold a current state licensure as a Physical Therapist (PT)
- Certified BLS: Possess Certified BLS or obtain it within 90 days of employment.
- Additional Data
- Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Physical Therapist Career Context
In Pennsylvania, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$92k (348 salary observations; 2,550 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (11,670 salary observations; 64,203 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 Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$135k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $139k in an average-cost state. 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $135k | Physical Therapy median $94k (middle half $87k–$106k)11 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Pennsylvania vs national | $92k median in Pennsylvania | $94k nationally (−2%)348 state / 11,670 national salary observations |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$139k in purchasing power | Pennsylvania index 97.6 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Physical Therapy listings in Pennsylvania | 935 active | 22,161 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 3% remote · 33% no call · 63% no weekends40 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | loan repayment | Pennsylvania physical therapist listings (all specialties): 23% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 20% offer loan repayment993 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Physical Therapy listings | 8,008 in the last 30 days | 4,487 the 30 days before (+78%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Physical Therapy pay trend | +1.3% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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