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Baptist Health
Louisville, Kentucky

Physical Therapist-Outpatient Lymphedema,

Physical TherapistFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 4mo ago

Job Description

Summary Job Description: Baptist Health Rehab Services provides a full range of physical, occupational, and speech therapy services for all ages.

Our therapists and assistants are trained in treating neurological, orthopedic, vestibular, lymphedema, pediatrics, industrial medicine, swallowing, and speech and language disorders. Job Description: The staff physical therapist shall evaluate and treat patients, develop a treatment plan and set goals for patients.

Patient and family education is included in the treatment plan and goals. The PT will complete documentation according to applicable national and state regulations as well as hospital and departmental policies.

The therapist will assist with the education of affiliating students, department staff, hospital staff, and the community at large. The therapist will appropriately delegate to and supervise physical therapist assistants and technicians. The therapist will participate in departmental operational plan.

The therapist must intervene appropriately and meet the needs of the patients with impaired mental abilities, vision, hearing or mobility.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Physical Therapy Current license by the Ky Board of Physical Therapy BLS within 30 days from date of hire Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, and Pet Insurance Life Insurance Short Term and Long-term Disability and Life Insurance Identity Theft Protection Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire Bereavement Leave (includes pets) PTO Sell Back Program Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation) Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial assistance Retirement with Company Match Work Experience Education If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

Key Responsibilities

The staff physical therapist will evaluate and treat patients, developing treatment plans and setting goals that include patient and family education. The therapist is also responsible for completing documentation, assisting with education for students and staff, and supervising physical therapist assistants and technicians.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Therapy and hold a current license by the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required within 30 days of the hire date.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Key Skills

Lymphedema TreatmentPatient EvaluationTreatment PlanningGoal SettingPatient EducationRegulatory ComplianceStudent EducationStaff EducationSupervisionTechnician SupervisionImpaired Patient Care

Physical Therapist Career Context

Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 40% have no call, 56% require no weekends.

In Kentucky, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$85k (236 salary observations; 871 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (15,226 salary observations; 58,292 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

What does the Physical Therapy market look like in Kentucky?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Kentucky vs national$85k median in Kentucky$94k nationally (−9%)236 state / 15,226 national salary observations
Cost of livingKentucky index 90.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physical Therapy listings in Kentucky352 active21,940 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 6% remote · 40% no call · 56% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 3.0
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About Baptist Health

Hospitals and Health Care
San Antonio, Texas
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Pet Insurance
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
Identity Theft Protection

Living in Louisville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$276k
Typical market rent
$1,330/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.1
State income tax
Up to 4.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026).

BEA 2024 · Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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