New grads welcome If you love talking through cases, questioning your approach, and finding better ways to help your patients, you’ll fit in at Summit. Our staff is full of PT nerds. We share articles, research, and videos, and our meetings include case reviews, new evidence, and teaching. We ask a lot from our PTs. We invest a lot in them too. We expect you to grow as a therapist and take ownership of your patient outcomes. In return, we give you protected mentorship, clinical autonomy, the tools to do your job well, and opportunities to grow. This isn’t for everyone, and we want you to know exactly what you’re signing up for. What the job actually looks like You’ll typically see 10–16 visits per day, including about one evaluation. Patients are scheduled every 20 minutes for roughly hour-long visits, so yes, visits overlap. Our therapists average about 2 visits per hour over the course of a week. We have no techs or aides, and we don’t share patients between therapists. You own your caseload from evaluation through discharge. Our population is predominantly high function orthopedic and sports patients, with relatively few high-complexity or gait and balance cases. (think suburban weekend warriors and their families) Our clinic is designed to make this model efficient and effective. We block additional time when a patient needs it. Since adopting Prompt’s AI documentation, our therapists rarely take notes home. Occasionally, you’ll have one or two notes left at the end of the day. The schedule is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 9 p.m. Two late evenings come with earlier finishes on the other three days. What you get in return Protected mentorship Every new grad completes a 12-month mentorship program with OCS-certified PTs: one protected hour of education and one protected hour treating patients with a mentor every week, following a defined clinical curriculum. That time is protected and non-negotiable. The goal is to help you diagnose and reason through a problem, build a structured treatment plan, recognize psychosocial barriers, and explain your plan clearly to patients. Autonomy and equipment You have the autonomy to make clinical decisions and a team to talk them through with. We invest in our clinic because we want you to have the space and equipment to actually rehab people. Our renovation and expansion add more usable rehab space as well as a brand new look. We’ve invested in VALD dynamometry and force plates, pelvic-floor biofeedback, BFR, and other tools that help us care for our population. We’re also paying for our whole staff to get certified in dry needling this fall.
Compensation and benefits:
New grads start at $85,000. Every clinician can earn up to $15,000 per year in performance bonuses based on productivity. Productivity shouldn’t be the only marker of success in PT, but as you become a better and more efficient clinician, we think you should financially benefit too. Benefits include a $1,000 annual CEU allowance, up to a 4% 401(k) match, health and dental insurance, and two weeks of PTO in year one and three weeks thereafter. Room to grow Summit has grown from 4 PTs in 2022 to 7 today, with plans for 9 at our current location and a second location as we continue to grow. We have the patient demand. Now we need more great PTs. That growth creates a need for clinicians interested in specialty development, marketing, operations, and helping run the flagship clinic. We can’t promise you a made-up leadership title. We can promise that if you have a strength and want to become a bigger part of the business, we want to find ways for you to use it. Do we sound like your people? We’d like to meet you. When you apply, skip the generic cover letter. Tell us one thing you’ve learned about physical therapy in the last six months that changed the way you think or treat. We don’t care if it came from research, a course, a patient, a CI, a podcast, or a colleague. We care that you’re still curious.
