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Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Physical Therapist PT PRN

Physical TherapistNo callPer Diem

Listed compensation

$40/hr

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Job Description

PRN On Call As Needed for overflow and PTO coverage

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

$40/hr-$63/hr

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

Key Skills

Patient assessmentMobility trainingRehabilitationClinical documentation

Physical Therapist Career Context

Of the 40 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 13% are remote, 53% have no call, 55% require no weekends.

In Missouri, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$89k (235 salary observations; 969 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 Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physical Therapist PT PRN at Amedisys a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physical Therapy — ranked against 22,389 active Physical Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Top contract/1099 Physical Therapist Jobs

40 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution29 jobs · 26 employers

7
<$110k
6
$110k-125k
4
$125k-140k
8
$140k-155k
4
$156k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks27 jobs · 26 employers

CME allowance
78%
401k / retirement match
70%
Sign-on bonus
33%
Loan repayment
7%
Relocation assistance
7%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Home Health Physical TherapistPer Diem

Transition Care Telemetry · San Juan Capistrano, California

$80-$110/hr
#2

Home Health Physical Therapist (PT) – PRNPer Diem

Concierge Home Care · St. Cloud, Florida

$70-$100/hr
#3

Home Care Physical Therapist- Independent Contractor (Union County)

$74-$95/hr
#4

Home Care Physical Therapist- Per Diem (Ocean County)

$72-$95/hr
+ 38 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 6.4
Better work-life than 70% of Physical Therapy listings

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

  • No call

Living in Poplar Bluff

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$189k
Median resident rent
$760/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

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