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Newport, Tennessee

Physical Therapist PT Part Time

Physical TherapistNo weekendsPart-Time

Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

  • Schedule: 2 to 3 days during the week but also open to considering one weekend day.
  • Primary area: Del Rio and Newport area.
  • Transform Lives from the Comfort of a Patient's Home

Are you a compassionate Physical Therapist driven to make a real impact? Join our dynamic home health team and help patients regain strength, mobility, and independence—all within the comfort of their own homes. In this flexible role, you’ll deliver personalized care through targeted interventions, ongoing assessments, and thoughtful discharge planning. If you're passionate about empowering patients to live healthier, happier lives, we’d love to hear from you!

Attractive pay

52.50 to 55.50

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for helping patients maintain, restore and improve movement, activity and function.
  • Provides interventions, conducts reexaminations (every 30 days, at minimum), modifies interventions as necessary, and performs discharge planning.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Current license to practice physical therapy specific to the state you're assigned to work in.

Graduate from an accredited physical therapy educational program as set by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE).

One year related physical therapy experience for PTs entering home health care to ensure that knowledge and skills are sufficient to safely provide physical therapy services to patients.

If less than one year of experience, approval from regional clinical leaders is required as well as appropriate mentoring and/or participating in a residency program.

Current CPR certification.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amedisys is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient assessmentIntervention planningMobility restorationClinical documentation

Physical Therapist Career Context

Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 58% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

In Tennessee, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$85k (244 salary observations; 1,503 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (10,861 salary observations; 55,605 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 Tennessee is 91.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.6% of Tennessee clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physical Therapist PT Part Time at Amedisys a 6.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physical Therapy — ranked against 22,541 active Physical Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Location & Logistics

Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top Physical Therapist Jobs

44 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution43 jobs · 34 employers

20
<$115k
7
$115k-135k
9
$135k-155k
7
$155k-175k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks37 jobs · 34 employers

401k / retirement match
92%
CME allowance
70%
Sign-on bonus
46%
Loan repayment
27%
Relocation assistance
5%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Physical Therapist - Visit Based EarningPer Diem

Benchmark Physical Therapy · Chattanooga, Tennessee

$90/hr
#2

Physical Therapist

People Well Staffing · Los Banos, California

$60-$80/hr
#3

Physical Therapist

$49.65-$77.08/hr
#4

Physical Therapist (PT) Home Health | $150,000 Annual Salary (Redding)

$150k-$160k
+ 42 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 6.3
Better work-life than 70% of Physical Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 22,541 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • On-site

Living in Newport

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$275k
Median resident rent
$720/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

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