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Carolina Pediatric Therapy
Asheville, North Carolina

Physical Therapist Assistant

Physical TherapistFull-Time

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Job Description

Love Pediatric Therapy. Love Where You Work.

$5,000 Sign-On Bonus

Make a Difference, Grow Your Skills, and Work With a Team That Supports You.

Carolina Pediatric Therapy is looking for a Full Time Physical Therapist Assistant to join our welcoming Asheville clinic, where collaboration, mentorship, and exceptional pediatric care are at the heart of everything we do.

Why Carolina Pediatric Therapy?

We provide integrated care for children from birth through age 21, with a team that believes collaboration makes all of us better clinicians.

As a full-time clinician, you’ll have more than a caseload - you’ll have the team, time, tools, and support designed to help you thrive.

Here, You’ll Have

  • Protected time built into your workday for planning, documentation, and collaboration
  • Dedicated professional development and embedded mentorship to help you grow as a clinician
  • True interdisciplinary collaboration with OTs, PTs, SLPs, Psychology, and Behavioral Health

Smarter documentation and sustainable productivity, with customizable templates, AI-assisted tools, and reasonable expectations focused on quality care

Variety in how and where you practice, including clinics, schools, daycares, homes, community settings, and telehealth

A clear path for career growth, with opportunities to deepen your clinical expertise, pursue leadership, and help shape a growing pediatric program

Your Home Clinic: A Place to Belong

Every clinician is centered at a designated Home Clinic, giving you a consistent professional home base even when your work takes you into the community.

You’ll have designated space for your therapy materials and professional resources, along with space to display your credentials and accomplishments.

It’s a place to belong, collaborate, stay organized, and make your own.

The Role

As a Physical Therapist Assistant with Carolina Pediatric Therapy, you'll provide evidence-based and informed assessment and treatment for children, adolescents, and families within a collaborative pediatric care model.

You’ll do it as part of an interdisciplinary team that shares ideas, solves problems together, and supports one another.

Compensation & Benefits

We want our clinicians to build sustainable careers - not burn out doing work they love.

Benefits Include

  • Medical health insurance
  • 3 weeks of PTO starting in your first year
  • Up to 10 paid holidays
  • Continuing education allowance
  • 401(k)
  • Life insurance
  • Mental health benefit / EAP
  • Optional supplemental benefits, including dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible scheduling options

Requirements

We’d Love to Meet You If You

  • Are Licensed as an Physical Therapist Assistant in NC
  • Have 1+ years of experience preferred (strong pediatric candidates with less experience encouraged to apply)

Key Responsibilities

Provide evidence-based assessment and treatment for children and adolescents within an interdisciplinary care model. Collaborate with a team of therapists to solve problems and support patient outcomes.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Pediatric physical therapyEvidence-based practiceClinical documentationPatient assessmentTreatment planningCommunication

Physical Therapist Career Context

In North Carolina, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$90k (587 salary observations; 1,843 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (14,883 salary observations; 56,734 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; 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).

Top PTA Jobs

6 matches · ranked by pay

Work-Life Balance Distribution6 jobs · 5 employers

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Higher = better work-life balance

#1

Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), Millsboro Delaware

Aquacare & Fitness Forum Physical Therapy · Millsboro, Delaware

$27-$35/hr
#2

Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), Millville Delaware

Aquacare & Fitness Forum Physical Therapy · Millville, Delaware

$27-$35/hr
#3

Physical Therapist Assistant

$29-$33/hr
#4

Physical Therapist Assistant - PRN

$25-$35/hr
+ 4 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 5.7
Better work-life than 60% of Physical Therapist Assistant listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 4,946 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Asheville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$455k
Typical market rent
$1,704/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.5
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Asheville, NC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Carolina Pediatric Therapy

Wellness and Fitness Services
Asheville, North Carolina
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

$5,000 Sign-On Bonus
Medical health insurance
3 weeks of PTO starting in first year
Up to 10 paid holidays
Continuing education allowance
401(k)
Life insurance
Mental health benefit / EAP