Physical Therapist Clinician

About Aware Health

Unfortunately, many are misdiagnosed and treated passively with opioids, injections, or surgery, often leading to unnecessary risks and costs.

At Aware Health, physical therapists lead the care process, typically seeing patients first. Our platform ensures people receive the right level of care, feel supported, and avoid unnecessary tests, medications, and procedures. This modern approach to preventing, diagnosing, and treating MSK pain has led to faster recoveries, better patient outcomes, and up to 30% cost savings for self-funded employers.

The Role:

We’re looking for a physical therapist clinician who loves connecting with people, problem-solving, and thinking outside the box when it comes to treatment. Adaptability, strong communication, and clinical excellence are essential—you’ll be diagnosing and treating patients virtually while navigating the unique challenges of telehealth in a startup setting.

This role requires flexibility and a growth mindset, as processes, tools, and workflows evolve quickly. You’ll play a key part in shaping the future of virtual MSK care, collaborating with a team that values innovation and patient-centered care.

Clinical skills:

• Evaluate clients over telehealth and during onsite visits in a direct access capacity, through a full range of acute and chronic orthopedic/ musculoskeletal injuries. We are a primary care physical therapy service and see all types of conditions with back, shoulder, knee most commonly and then also hand/ finger, pelvic floor, TMJ and less frequent conditions.
• Ability to triage clients with comprehensive differential diagnosis and screening to rule out non-musculoskeletal causes and need for referral.
• Has comprehensive knowledge of clinical prediction rules and indications that warrant immediate need for radiology to service evaluation and treatment of patients with musculoskeletal dysfunction.
• Feels comfortable guiding clients through both a health/wellness and mental wellness program.
• Ability to supplement imaging findings to better educate clients.
• Demonstrates competence in educating clients on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment plans.
• Open to navigating around existing treatment plans and tracks.
• Resilience to frequent changes within website applications and systems.
• Knowledge of strength and conditioning principles.
• Open to assisting with cross-functional tasks, such as contributing to webinars or business reviews in collaboration with Customer Success, or supporting other teams as needed.
• In agreement to be licensed in multiple states (up to 10-15 licenses).
• Agreeable to travel for events multiple times per year.
• Has their Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree.

Personal Skills:

• Possesses problem solving skills and independent management of workload (to include tracking patient status and maximizing adherence to plan).
• Proficient with navigating basic computer tasks and programs.
• Organizational skills to track patient load and status.
• Effective communication and coordination with the team to ensure all efforts align with our north star; self-motivated.
• Flexibility in schedule, including traveling to onsite visits, occasional weekends, evening hours and on call coverage for more urgent client needs.
• Must have or be willing to get licensed in multiple states including Ohio.

Bonus Points:

• OCS certification
• Spanish speaking is a plus

• Base salary $82k at 40 hours/week, full time annually
• Equity in the company
• Medical (PPO, HMO, HDHP), dental and vision
• 401K
• FSA administration
• Life Insurance
• Short/long term disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commuter benefits