Performance Physical Therapist

Job Description

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Performance Physical Therapist: Ascension Rehab and Sports Therapy South Charlotte, NC | Part-Time or Full-time available

If you became a PT to actually treat people, not to chart between 4 patients on the same hour then keep reading.

You learned manual skills, exercise prescription, return-to-sport progressions, and clinical reasoning in school. Then you got a job where you couldn't use any of it the way you wanted to. Twenty visits a day. Techs running your plan of care. Notes at 9pm. Patients you barely remember.

That's not the job here.

About Ascension

Ascension Rehab and Sports Therapy is a performance-based PT clinic in South Charlotte. We see one patient at a time, for a full hour. No techs. No double-booking.

Our framework is Reset → Rebuild → Resilience:

We get people out of pain, rebuild capacity, and keep them performing for the long haul. Our patients are active adults, athletes, and post-surgical clients who want results, not a punch card.

We're growing, and we're hiring our next clinician.

The Role

You'll be a primary clinician on a 1-on-1 appointment model:

▸ Full hour with every patient: eval, manual, exercise, education, programming

▸ You own your caseload from eval through discharge and into long-term wellness

▸ Optional contribution to content, community, and gym partnerships if that's your thing

What You Need to Be Successful

▸ Physical therapy Diploma + NC license (or eligible)

▸ 2+ years clinical experience preferred but strong new grads considered

▸ Performance and sports rehab orientation: you understand load management, progressive overload, and return-to-activity

▸ Manual therapy competence

▸ Ownership mentality: you treat your caseload like it's your practice

▸ Strong communication with patients, referral partners, and teammates

What you don't need: experience grinding out 25 visits a day. That's a habit we'll have to break, not build.

What You Get

▸Compensation: $70,000 – $115,000+ total compensation

▸Benefits: PTO, paid holidays, retirement contributions and stipends for health/dental/vision/life/disability. Also, no burn-out.

▸blocked admin time every week: notes, programming, prep, all done at work

▸weekly meetings for case discussion

▸$1,500 Annual CEU budget

▸ A 60-minute, 1-on-1 model that lets you practice the way you were trained to.

▸ Culture that doesn't take itself too seriously: Athleisure dress code, performance-minded patients and a team that genuinely likes each other and the work

How to Apply

Tell us what kind of patient you most want to treat and why this model fits how you want to practice. Send your resume, a short note AND an answer to one of the questions below to

• What's your current (or all-time) max deadlift, squat, or bench? Pick your favorite. We're not judging the number — we're judging whether you've been under a barbell.
• What's a movement, sport, or training style you're personally into right now? Running, lifting, jiu-jitsu, climbing, Pilates, pickleball — no wrong answer. We just want to know what makes you move.
• When was the last time you were injured, and how did you rehab it (or didn't)? Bonus points for self-awareness about what you'd do differently.
• Pick one: 5K run, 20-rep back squat at 1.5x bodyweight, or a 10-minute AMRAP of your choice. xqrzhdi Which are you choosing and why? This tells us more about you than your resume will.