Physical Therapist - Full-time
San Diego, CAFull-time$46–66/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Select Specialty Hospital in San Diego provides inpatient post-ICU care for chronically and critically ill patients requiring extended recovery. The Physical Therapist delivers patient assessment and treatment, develops care plans, supports patient and family education, and contributes to discharge planning. The role includes supervising therapy assistants and students. The position is full-time and requires current state physical therapist licensure and BLS certification or completion within the first 90 days.
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Overview
Position: Physical Therapist (PT)
Location: San Diego, CA
Schedule: Full-time
Compensation: $46.00 to $66.00 per hour
Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Physical Therapists (PT) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.
Why Join Us:
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Start Strong : Extensive and thorough Physical Therapist (PT) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
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Advance Your Career : Tuition reimbursement, and continuing education opportunities.
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Elevate Your Skills : Clinical ladder program.
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Ease the Burden : Student debt benefit program.
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Your Health Matters : Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings
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Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance
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Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection
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Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.
Responsibilities
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Performing initial and ongoing systematic patient assessment.
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Promoting continuous quality improvement.
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Teaching and counseling patients/families.
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Setting goals and developing treatment plans.
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Working cooperatively to identify and solve patient-specific and facility-wide needs.
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Participating in discharge planning for each patient, including placement, patient/family education and adaptive equipment.
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Supervising Physical Therapy Assistants, as well as supervising PT and PTA students.
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Conducting individual patient therapy regimens.
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Monitoring patient's response to treatment and modifying treatment during sessions, as needed.
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Completing appropriate documentation according to department policies and procedures.
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Participating in departmental, hospital, and community continuing education seminars and in-services.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
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Current state licensure as a Physical Therapist required.
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Certified BLS or completion in first 90 days of employment required.
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location : Location US-CA-San Diego
Job ID 387369
Position Type Full Time
Experience (Years) 1
Category Physical Therapist
Company Select Specialty Hospital - San Diego
How this job compares
Set against the 10,364 open Physical Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$46–66/hr
- California median$60–70/hr295 hourly ranges
- US median$46–60/hr3,013 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $56/hr, is 14% below the California median midpoint ($65/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Physical Therapist hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 766 open Physical Therapist jobs in California and 10,364 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- FeldCare Connects167 open
- Kaiser Permanente91 open
- Select Medical (this employer)69 open
- Experience
- Physical Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (2,852 postings).
- Education
- 3,941 of the 10,364 open Physical Therapist jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 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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