Physical Therapist - Outpatient Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Highlights

• Full-Time / Permanent Position
• 11–12 patients/day (up to 14–15 for high performers)
• Performance bonus up to $800/month
• Experienced PT team
• 4 10-hour shifts or 5 8-hour shifts
• No weekends, nights, or holidays
• Manual therapy training

A long-established outpatient orthopedics and sports medicine clinic on New Hampshire's Seacoast is hiring a licensed Physical Therapist for its Exeter office. You'll join a veteran team treating an active patient population: weekend warriors, marathon runners, high school and college athletes, and a steady flow of post-op shoulder, hip, and knee cases. If you live the lifestyle your patients want to get back to, this is your room.

Location and Schedule

• Location: Exeter, NH.
• Office hours: 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM Monday through Thursday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Friday.
• Schedule: choose four 10-hour days, or five 8-hour days.
• If you take 8s, plan on covering the 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM closing shift most days.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Real treatment time. 45-minute initial evaluations and 30-minute follow-ups. Enough room to think, document, and do the manual work.
• Aide support on every shift. One to two aides per clinic set up patients, start exercise progressions, and finish with modalities. Your hands stay on the clinical work that requires you.
• Subspecialty exposure. Direct collaboration with board-certified orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians on complex post-op cases: ACL reconstruction, shoulder reconstruction and replacement, arthroscopic procedures, spine, total joints.
• Modern, accredited facility. On-site digital imaging, MRI, musculoskeletal ultrasound, an outpatient surgery center, and a walk-in injury clinic. The practice holds national accreditation for quality and patient safety.
• Veteran team, open door. Most clinicians here carry 15 to 30 years of experience, and they are genuinely welcoming to PTs earlier in their careers who want to learn from them.
• Built for collaboration. Open-concept treatment floor with private rooms when a case calls for one. Quarterly all-staff meetings keep the team aligned on protocols and operations.
• Continuing education. Support for certifications, advanced manual therapy, dry needling, and clinical mentorship.

Patient Mix

About 80% active adults: high school and college athletes, marathoners, recreational lifters, and post-op shoulder, hip, and knee patients. Roughly 20% Medicare. Approximately 15% workers' compensation, with the remainder predominantly commercial insurance and a small self-pay panel. Concussion and vestibular cases are managed by a dedicated clinician on staff, so that skill set is not required here. No women's health caseload.

What You'll Do

• Conduct comprehensive initial evaluations and build individualized plans of care with clear short-term and long-term goals.
• Treat a broad orthopedic and sports medicine caseload: ACL and meniscus rehabilitation, rotator cuff and shoulder reconstruction, total joint replacement, spine and back conditions, hip and lower extremity injuries, hand and upper extremity rehab, plantar fasciitis, Achilles and rotator cuff tendinopathy, IT band syndrome, ankle sprains, acute fractures, and tendon ruptures.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions: manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, neuromuscular re-education, dry needling (where credentialed), Graston Technique, and indicated modalities.
• Carry post-op patients through surgeon-driven protocols in close coordination with referring physicians.
• Educate patients on home exercise programs, ergonomics, activity modification, and injury prevention.
• Document accurately and submit timely workers' compensation progress reports and clinical notes.

Required

• DPT or Master's in Physical Therapy from a CAPTE-accredited program.
• Active New Hampshire Physical Therapy license, or eligibility to obtain prior to start.
• Current BLS / CPR certification.
• Strong manual therapy fundamentals, clinical reasoning, and exercise prescription.
• Clear, patient-centered communication.

Preferred

• Experience in outpatient orthopedics, sports medicine, or post-surgical rehab.
• Specialty credentials (OCS, SCS, CSCS) or advanced training in manual therapy, dry needling, or Graston Technique.
• Comfort treating athletes across the age spectrum, from high school through active older adults.
• Curious, active, and ideally with firsthand experience of some of the injuries you treat.
• New graduates with strong orthopedic clinical rotations are welcome.