Physical Therapist
Listed compensation
$40+/hr
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- No weekends
Job Description
- Pediatric Physical Therapist (PT) at TKC Therapy
- Full-time, Part-time, or PRN hours available.
- All kids are on-site daily, so no there's no appointments-- you decide your own schedule!
About Us
TKC Therapy provides in-house, high-quality, and intensive PT, OT, and ST services to children attending The Kidz Club (TKC), a Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC) center. PPEC centers provide daily skilled nursing care to medically-complex children, ages birth to under 21.
Learn more about us by visiting our website.
Responsibilities
1. Assess and diagnose a variety of developmental, congenital, neurological, and musculoskeletal disorders for the medical population, ages birth to 21.
2. Develop individualized treatment plans following a comprehensive evaluation to address clients' strength and mobility difficulties.
3. Utilize evidence-based practice in therapy sessions tailored to each client's specific impairments, including:
- Therapeutic exercises to improve strength, flexibility, and endurance.
- Neuromuscular re-education techniques to enhance motor control and coordination.
- Manual therapy techniques to improve joint mobility and tissue flexibility.
- Gait training and balance activities to improve mobility and stability.
- Use of adaptive equipment or assistive devices to facilitate functional independence.
Qualifications
1. Possession of a master's or doctorate degree in physical therapy from an accredited program and state licensure from the Department of Health.
2. Clinical experience working with the pediatric population (medical pediatric population strongly preferred).
3. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with clients, families, and interdisciplinary teams.
4. Proficiency using standardized assessment tools, therapeutic interventions, and assistive technologies relevant to the field.
5. Commitment to maintaining professional competency and adhering to HIPAA policies and ethical standards.
6. Current CPR (BLS) certificate.
Benefits: (for full-time employees)
Flexible schedule – start/end time and daily scheduling of patients is heavily up to therapist, as long as caseload coverage is being met. We are open Saturdays if you’d like the opportunity to see extra hours, but this is not required.
- PTO and Paid Holidays
- 401K or Student Loan Reimbursement
- Health Benefits or HRA
- Vision and Dental Benefits
- Life Insurance (Basic and Voluntary)
- Long-Term Care with Death Benefit
- FSA - Dependent Care
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance packages
- Always Closed Nights, Sundays, and Major Holidays
Pay: $40+/hour, subject to increase based off of pay qualifiers
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physical Therapist at Kidz Club a 6.8 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physical Therapy — ranked against 20,734 active Physical Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Physical Therapist Career Context
In Kentucky, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$83k (47 salary observations; 165 listings), vs ~$92k nationally (12,215 salary observations; 28,310 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
Physical Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Kentucky is 90.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$83k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $92k in an average-cost state. 61.6% of Kentucky clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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