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Atlantic Health System
Summit, New Jersey

Physical Therapist I: Per Diem Days (3 days x 8hrs), Atlantic Rehab Clark

Physical TherapistNo weekendsPer Diem

Compensation

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Job Description

Atlantic Health is seeking two (2) skilled and compassionate per diem outpatient Physical Therapists to join our team in our Clark, NJ location, three (3) days per week (M, W from 11a-7p, and F 9a-5p).

(1) Per Diem for general Ortho

(1) Per Diem for Lymph - CLT/CDT is required

We’re proud to offer a collaborative environment rooted in our core values: patient-centered care, professional respect, and a commitment to continuous learning.

Here, you won’t just find a job—you’ll find a place where your clinical expertise is valued, your voice matters, and your growth is supported.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

  • Culture-first environment: Recognized for our outstanding workplace culture and supportive leadership
  • Investment in your development: Continuing education support to help you stay ahead of best practices
  • Top-tier tools & flexibility: State-of-the-art equipment, manageable schedules, and strong interdisciplinary collaboration

What Your Day Might Look Like

  • Conduct comprehensive evaluations and develop patient-centered treatment plans
  • Collaborate with physicians, and fellow rehab team members
  • Communicate with patients and families to ensure understanding and continuity of care
  • Support various appointment types and adapt care plans as needed

Principal Accountabilities

Essential functions include patient evaluation, establishing plans of care and treatment programs, providing interventions, providing patient and family education, documenting interventions, and billing appropriately. Supports Lead Clinicians in competency development and implementation.

Participates in the orientation of new staff members, serves as a clinical instructor for students, exercises independent judgement of moderately complex cases and with minimal to no supervision.

Qualifications

Required

1. New Jersey License to practice Physical Therapy.

2. Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy academic program

3. For the Lymph position, CLT/CDT is required.

Preferred

1. New Grads Welcomed (for Ortho); 1-3 years of lymph experience (CLT/CDT required)

2. 1-3 years of orthopedic experience as a Physical Therapist hospital-based outpatient setting;

3. Oncology Clinical Specialist preferred for Lymph Position

At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care

include:

  • Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
  • Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
  • Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
  • Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
  • Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
  • Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
  • Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
  • Atlantic Medical Group
  • Atlantic Visiting Nurse
  • Atlantic Mobile Health
  • Atlantic Rehabilitation

We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.

We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

  • Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For."
  • Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
  • Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
  • Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
  • Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
  • Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026.
  • Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
  • Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
  • Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.

Named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades, a World’s Best Hospital by Newsweek and recognized as a Best Regional Hospital in the NY Metro area by U.S. News & World Report.

Our Atlantic Neuroscience Institute is the region’s leader in neuroscience care.

A hub for the New Jersey Stroke Network, we offer a broad range of advanced neurological, neurosurgical and neurodiagnostic services. We are also certified as a Level IV Epilepsy Center and home to the Gerald J. Glasser Brain Tumor Center, where more brain tumor surgeries are performed than anywhere else in New Jersey.

Our CyberKnife® program is the largest and most experienced in the state. We also have a satellite emergency department in Union, NJ, which treats about 40,000 emergency cases each year.

Committed to providing exceptional care, Overlook Medical Center has achieved the prestigious Magnet® recognition. This designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center is the highest national honor for nursing excellence.

What’s more, Overlook Medical Center has advanced certification from The Joint Commission for perinatal care and is designated an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center. Additional Joint Commission-certified services include behavioral health care, spine surgery, wound care, and primary care medical home (PCMH).

Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive).

Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:

Team Member Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
  • Life & AD&D Insurance.
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
  • 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
  • PTO & Paid Sick Leave
  • Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
  • Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
  • Backup and On-Site Childcare
  • Well-Being Rewards
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
  • Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
  • Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance

Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.

EEO Statement

Atlantic Health, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.

Atlantic Rehabilitation offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, audiology, wound care management and more. All of which are provided by a highly trained staff comprised of physiatrists; internists; physician assistants; nurse practitioners; rehabilitation nurses; physical, occupational, and recreational therapists; speech-language pathologists; social workers; psychologists; vocational rehabilitation counselors; dieticians; audiologists; and care managers.

Key Responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive patient evaluations and develop individualized treatment plans while collaborating with physicians and the rehab team. Provide direct patient interventions, document care appropriately, and support clinical staff development and student instruction.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Orthopedic physical therapyLymphatic drainageTreatment planningPatient educationClinical documentationMedical billingClinical instructionOncology rehabilitation

Physical Therapist Career Context

In New Jersey, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$99k (504 salary observations; 1,785 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (11,898 salary observations; 60,349 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 New Jersey is 108.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.8% of New Jersey clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Physical Therapy market look like in New Jersey?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.0 / 10 · above average in physical therapyranked against 21,894 Physical Therapy listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedPhysical Therapy median $100k (middle half $98k–$108k)25 comparable listings, Nov 2026
New Jersey vs national$99k median in New Jersey$94k nationally (+5%)504 state / 11,898 national salary observations
Cost of livingNew Jersey index 108.8US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physical Therapy listings in New Jersey692 active21,872 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 2% remote · 30% no call · 72% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedNew Jersey Physical Therapist listings: 31% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 16% offer loan repayment744 active listings, Nov 2026
New Physical Therapy listings7,820 in the last 30 days4,435 the 30 days before (+76%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Physical Therapy pay trend+1.5% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (21,894 Physical Therapy listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physical Therapist I: Per Diem Days (3 days x 8hrs), Atlantic Rehab Clark at Atlantic Health System a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physical Therapy — ranked against 21,894 active Physical Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

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Salary Distribution

50 jobs · 35 employers
28
<$115k
8
$115k-130k
3
$130k-145k
11
$145k-160k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

47 jobs · 35 employers
401k / retirement match
96% this job
CME allowance
68% this job
Sign-on bonus
47%
Loan repayment
23%
Relocation assistance
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 6.0
Better work-life than 70% of Physical Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 21,894 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • On-site
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About Atlantic Health System

Hospitals and Health Care
Morristown, New Jersey
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage
Life & AD&D Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
403(b) Retirement Plan with employer match
PTO & Paid Sick Leave
Tuition Assistance
Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
Backup and On-Site Childcare

Living in Summit

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.03M
Typical market rent
$2,977/mo
Residents’ average commute
34 min
State income tax
Up to 10.8%
Sources & methodology

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

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