Physical Therapist Assistant

This outpatient orthopedic clinic group operates five locations across Orange County and LA County, and manual therapy is a core part of how patients are treated rather than an add-on to an exercise-based model.

This is a floating role covering vacations primarily across the Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Long Beach locations, with occasional coverage at Santa Ana and Stanton as needed. Vacation schedules are typically set a month or more in advance, so you will know which location you are covering ahead of time. On days without coverage needs, you will be based at one of the primary locations seeing overflow patients.

You will work one-on-one with each patient for the first thirty minutes of the visit, then hand off to an aide who finishes the session. Patients are typically in clinic for about an hour total.

Primarily Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Long Beach, CA, with occasional coverage at Santa Ana and Stanton.

The clinic runs Monday through Friday, with hours as early as 7 AM and as late as 6 PM. A typical day is 7 AM to 4 PM or 8 AM to 5 PM, an eight-hour workday plus a one-hour lunch. The role is salaried, so there is some flexibility to stay a little later when needed to finish with patients.

Pay is mid $70s up to close to $90,000 annually depending on experience, somewhat more than the static-location roles given the added flexibility and driving involved. There is no traditional productivity bonus for this role, since that is difficult to apply consistently to a floating schedule, and other ways to compensate for it are being explored.

Benefits include health insurance on a 50/50 employer-employee split through Anthem or Kaiser HMO/PPO plans with HSA and FSA options, employee-paid dental at roughly $20 to $40 per month through MetLife, and vision at roughly $20 per month through Anthem.

PTO starts at 10 days in year one and builds to a 15-day maximum by year three, alongside 5 sick days and 6 paid holidays: New Year's, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Continuing education is funded at about $1,000 per year, which includes $800 in cash plus a MedBridge subscription. There is also a 401(k) program and reimbursement for PTA license and CPR renewal.

Candidates must hold an active California PTA license. There is no strict minimum years of experience; what matters most is recent, ongoing manual therapy experience rather than total years in the field. Manual therapy exposure that is years old, or that came only from school or from skilled nursing and home health settings, is not a fit.

Candidates should be comfortable adapting to the clinic's EMR, which includes AI-assisted documentation, and generally open to learning new technology and workflows. This is a more specialized position best suited to someone comfortable driving between multiple clinic locations and adjusting week to week based on the coverage schedule.

The process starts with a phone interview covering fit and background, followed by an in-person interview where manual therapy skills and patient interaction are assessed, along with a discussion of salary expectations. The client aims to respond to submitted candidates within 48 hours.

As a floating clinician you will work with multiple clinic teams across locations. Roughly 30 therapists work across the group's five locations at any given time, with weekly team-building activities and company-wide gatherings a few times a year.