Physical Therapy Assistant - FT Sign-on Bonus! NEW RATE!
Poughkeepsie, NYFull-time$30.8/hrPosted 7mo agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Lutheran Care Center is hiring a Physical Therapy Assistant - FT Sign-on Bonus! NEW RATE!. The Lutheran Care Center at Poughkeepsie is seeking a full-time Physical Therapy Assistant to join their team. This individual will provide direct physical therapy care to assist short and long-term adult patients in regaining strength and mobility. The position is an 1199 union role, offering comprehensive benefits.
Key focus areas include Provide direct physical therapy care to adult patients and Assist patients to regain strength and mobility.
Successful candidates bring Associates Degree and Valid New York State License as a Physical Therapy Assistant.
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Physical Therapy Assistant - Full Time
The Lutheran Care Center at Poughkeepsie is currently seeking a full time Physical Therapy Assistant to join our team.
Rate: $30.80/hour (Effective 7/1/2026)
$3500 Sign-on Bonus for Full Time PTA! ( Bonus paid in installments; eligibility and repayment terms apply.)
Under the direction of a Physical Therapist, this individual will provide direct physical therapy care to assist our short and long term adult patients to regain strength and mobility. Come and find out why the Lutheran Care Center has the reputation for excellence we have maintained for over 20 years!
The full time Physical Therapy Assistant position is an 1199 union role. Many member expenses are covered in full by the union. Benefits include:
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Health & Welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescriptions, hearing aids, scholarships for children, camp, childcare, retirement, and more!
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Educational benefits, including pre-paid tuition vouchers and tuition reimbursement for pre-college, foundational, occupational certifications, college undergraduate and graduate programs, continuing education, and more!
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Vacation, personal days, sick leave, 10 holidays, every other weekend off!
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Associates Degree
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Valid New York State License as a Physical Therapy Assistant
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Previous post-acute experience highly desired
Lutheran Care Center is a 160-bed nonprofit nursing and rehabilitation facility located in the heart of the Hudson Valley, and the care of our residents always comes first. Lutheran Care Center is a subsidiary of The Lutheran Care Network. Join our team and make a difference in the lives of others! For the health and safety of our residents, our facility requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, MMR, and PPD. EOE
How this job compares
Set against the 1,027 open Physical Therapy Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$30.8/hr
- US median$30–38/hr450 hourly ranges
This rate, $30.80/hr, is 10% below the US median midpoint ($34/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Physical Therapy Assistant hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 28 open Physical Therapy Assistant jobs in New York and 1,027 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- U.S. Physical Therapy5 open
- CenterWell3 open
- HCR Home Care3 open
- Experience
- Physical Therapy Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (119 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 350 of the 1,027 open Physical Therapy Assistant jobs (34%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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