Virtual Occupational Health Physical Therapist (Evaluation-Only)

RightMove; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

RightMove Health is seeking a Physical Therapist to join its virtual occupational health team. You will perform single-visit, evaluation-only MSK assessments for a range of industrial and office-based roles, guiding care-path decisions and documenting functional limitations for accommodations.

Ideal candidates have a DPT, clinical experience, and comfort with telehealth. This remote, national role reports to the VP of Care Delivery and involves coordination with Care Coordinators and employer

Qualifications

• DPT required from CAPTE-accredited program.
• Active, unrestricted PT license in applicable states; PT Compact preferred.
• 3+ years of clinical PT experience; 5+ preferred.
• Strong clinical reasoning for rapid single-visit evaluations.
• Comfort with virtual/digital care delivery and remote education.
• Knowledge of workplace accommodation and return-to-work documentation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct single-visit virtual musculoskeletal evaluations for diverse job types.
• Determine work-relatedness and injury acuity for care pathways.
• Route to appropriate next-step care (home program, virtual PT, in-person referral, workers' comp).
• Characterize functional limitations for employer accommodation teams.
• Identify red/yellow flags needing urgent escalation.
• Generate concise documentation for accommodations, injury reporting, and payer review.
• Coordinate with patients, Care Coordinators, and employer/payer partners for seamless handoff.
• Maintain compliant clinical documentation per regulatory and organizational standards.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Virtual care delivery

Documentation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

DPT from CAPTE-accredited program

Tools

Telehealth platform

Job description

About RightMove Health

RightMove Health is a digital health company redefining how value-based musculoskeletal (MSK) care is delivered. Created in partnership with the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the world's leading academic medical center for muscle and joint health, we're building a new standard of coordinated, expert-led care that gets people moving better and faster. Our team of muscle, joint, and back specialists, including doctors, nurse practitioners, and advanced physical therapists, provides virtual triage and nonsurgical care. We leverage HSS's proprietary clinical protocols covering more than 95 conditions to deliver fast, accurate evaluations without the wait.

Our Mission & Values

We're a high-performing team driven by one mission: to free people to move and thrive. At RightMove, we move fast, collaborate deeply, and deliver with precision. We're a startup with enterprise-grade rigor, where talented operators, engineers, and clinicians challenge conventions to improve patient outcomes.

• Perform to Win – We bring our best to deliver measurable results, valuing impact over optics.
• Be Direct with Respect – We communicate clearly, with honesty and care.
• Move as One Team – We win together, across roles and functions.
• Act with Agency – Our teams have high trust and high accountability, with the freedom to own and responsibility to deliver.
• Choose Optimism – We bring energy and perspective, even when the work is hard.

About the Role

We are looking for a Physical Therapist to serve as our Virtual Occupational Health Physical Therapist (Evaluation-Only), supporting employer-partner populations across the full spectrum of job types, from large-scale industrial and warehouse/fulfillment roles to corporate and office-based staff, with single-encounter, virtual musculoskeletal evaluations. This role is built around two core outcomes: routing every employee to the right next-step care pathway, and clearly characterizing the disabling condition to support the accommodation process. The evaluating PT assesses the employee's presentation, determines work-relatedness and injury severity, identifies red and yellow flags, and then translates that assessment into (1) a specific care pathway decision and (2) a clear clinical description of the employee's functional limitations, which the employer's accommodation team uses to determine and implement any duty modification. The PT does not make the accommodation decision itself; the role is to provide the clinical basis the accommodation team needs to act on. This individual will not carry a treatment caseload; instead, they hand off every case to the appropriate downstream pathway (self-directed home program, virtual PT episode of care, in-person specialist referral, or workers' compensation coordination) and close the loop with Care Coordinators. He or she will report to the VP of Care Delivery.

What You'll Do

• Conduct single-visit virtual evaluations for employees reporting work-related musculoskeletal symptoms, across a broad range of job types (physically demanding/industrial roles as well as sedentary/office-based roles), using a structured subjective history and virtual objective exam.
• Apply strong clinical reasoning to determine work-relatedness, injury acuity, and appropriate level of care within a virtual, evaluation-only model.
• Determine and initiate the correct next-step care pathway for every case (self-directed home program, virtual PT episode of care, in-person specialist referral, or workers' compensation coordination), making this routing decision the central output of the visit.
• Clearly characterize the disabling condition and resulting functional limitations through the clinical exam, and communicate findings to the employer's accommodation team to support their duty-modification decision, tailored to the physical demands of the employee's role (lifting/repetitive motion in an industrial setting or posture/ergonomics at a workstation).
• Identify red and yellow flags requiring urgent medical escalation and route accordingly.
• Generate concise, defensible documentation to support workplace accommodation requests, injury reporting, and payer or employer review.
• Communicate and coordinate with patients, Care Coordinators, and employer or payer partners to ensure a clean handoff and continuity across the episode, including direct communication with the employer partner's accommodation team member as needed to clarify findings or functional limitations.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and compliant clinical documentation in accordance with regulatory, payer, and organizational requirements.
• Adhere to established clinical protocols, escalation pathways, and quality standards within a value-based, occupational health care environment.

Required Qualifications

• Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from a CAPTE-accredited program.
• Active, unrestricted physical therapy license in the state(s) where care will be delivered; PT Compact State licensure strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience, with preference for 5 years.
• Strong clinical reasoning skills and comfort making rapid, single-encounter evaluation and disposition decisions.
• Comfort practicing in a virtual/digital care delivery model, including remote evaluations and video-based patient education.
• Working knowledge of workplace accommodation, duty-modification, or return-to-work documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Primary residence in a PT Compact member state with an active home-state license in good standing, allowing quick acquisition of Compact Privileges in other member states as needed.
• Experience in occupational health, industrial/workplace injury evaluation, or work conditioning.
• Experience evaluating both industrial/physically demanding roles and office/sedentary roles.
• Prior experience supporting an employer-partner or workers' compensation population.
• APTA specialist certification (e.g., OCS, SCS).
• Familiarity with functional capacity evaluation, ergonomics, or ADA/accommodation processes.
• Experience delivering care in virtual or digital health/telehealth-based models.
• Experience working in interdisciplinary or integrated care teams alongside medical providers.