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Lake Mary, Florida

Physical Therapist - Inpatient - Lake Mary Hospital (PRN/Pool)

Physical TherapistIncludes callIncludes weekendsPer Diem

Compensation

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Job Description

Position Summary

  • Department: LMH Inpatient Rehab Svs
  • Status: PRN / Pool
  • Title: Physical Therapist | PT

Schedule: Approximately 20 hours per month (about 2–3 shifts monthly, with shifts typically lasting 8–10 hours).

Must cover at least one weekend shift per month, as well as one major and one minor holiday each year (this may include a weekend shift around the holiday).

Preferred availability on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, but open to other days as needed.

Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital is a new 124-bed acute-care hospital – with room to grow to 240 beds, located in Seminole County, Florida. The facility offers a full complement of services, including inpatient & outpatient rehabilitation services, cardiovascular care, including 3 cath labs, emergency care, general surgery, orthopedics, and obstetrics, childbirth, postpartum care, and a future NICU.

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About Our IP & OP Rehab Department

We offer rehabilitation services serving a full spectrum of short-term and long-term rehabilitation needs – from hip fracture, joint replacement and sports medicine programs to stroke, traumatic brain injury cardiac surgery and oncology/lymphedema rehabilitation.

  • Our programs encompass both inpatient and outpatient care
  • The inpatient Acute Care Therapy offers unit-based specialized therapists for Oncology/Lymphedema, Neurological Conditions, Stroke, Orthopedics, Limb Loss, Multiple Traumas, and more!
  • Outpatient services are treated at our outpatient clinic located in Longwood, FL

Responsibilities

Position Summary

Works with patients who have impairments, limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes. The Physical Therapist role includes examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and interventions toward achieving the highest functional outcomes for each patient or client.

Essential Functions

  • Evaluates patients, gathering data from the patient, the physician, interdisciplinary team meetings if available, family and significant other persons and data sources.
  • Develops treatment plans which integrate with the continuum of care and have specific goals and objectives and treats accordingly.
  • Demonstrates competency in the use, care and maintenance of profession specific equipment, observing safety precautions and providing verbal explanations of the equipment and its purpose.
  • Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to treat and provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on the assigned caseload.
  • Re-evaluates and modifies treatment plan and goals when appropriate.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
  • Assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age-specific needs.
  • Provides care as described in the unit’s/area’s/department’s policies and procedures.
  • Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her practicing location (s). Recognizes and communicates when the patient has received optimal benefit from physical therapy.
  • Adheres to State Practice Act and Standards of Practice.
  • Ensures complete documentation and accurate billing.
  • Provides patient/family education as indicated.
  • Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
  • Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures

Qualifications

Education/Training

Bachelor’s degree or higher from an approved program in physical therapy.

Licensure/Certification

Current Physical Therapist license in the State of Florida—renewed every two years.

Must maintain CPR certification. Continuing Education as required by State Practice Act.

Experience

Newly licensed PT's and tenured PT's welcome to apply!

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Key Skills

Patient evaluationTreatment planningNeurological rehabilitationStroke rehabilitationOncology rehabilitationLymphedema managementPatient educationEquipment maintenanceSafety protocolsInterdisciplinary collaboration

Physical Therapist Career Context

Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 46% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

In Florida, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$90k (720 salary observations; 3,226 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (14,655 salary observations; 55,733 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 Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

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

Top contract/1099 Physical Therapist Jobs

41 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution41 jobs · 30 employers

18
<$110k
10
$110k-130k
8
$130k-150k
5
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks37 jobs · 30 employers

401k / retirement match
92% this job
CME allowance
84% this job
Sign-on bonus
49%
Loan repayment
27% this job
Relocation assistance
5%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 30% of Physical Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 22,389 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Lake Mary

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$400k
Typical market rent
$1,988/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.4
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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Benefits & Perks

Student loan repayment
Tuition reimbursement
FREE college education programs
Retirement savings
Paid parental leave
Fertility benefits
Pet insurance
PTO/Holidays