Virtual Occupational Health Physical Therapist (Evaluation-Only)

RightMove Health

35d • $100,000 - $110,000 • Remote

About The Position

RightMove Health is a digital health company focused on delivering value-based musculoskeletal (MSK) care, in partnership with the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). We aim to set a new standard for coordinated, expert-led care that helps individuals move better and faster. Our team consists of specialists in muscle, joint, and back health, including doctors, nurse practitioners, and advanced physical therapists, who provide virtual triage and nonsurgical care. We utilize HSS's extensive clinical protocols for over 95 conditions to offer prompt and accurate evaluations without delays. Our mission is to empower people to move and thrive. We operate as a high-performing team that values speed, deep collaboration, and precise execution. As a startup with enterprise-level rigor, we encourage our operators, engineers, and clinicians to challenge norms and enhance patient outcomes. Our core values include performing to win by delivering measurable results, communicating directly with respect, moving as one team, acting with agency through high trust and accountability, and choosing optimism to bring energy and perspective.

This role involves serving as a Virtual Occupational Health Physical Therapist (Evaluation-Only) for employer-partner populations across various job types, including industrial, warehouse/fulfillment, corporate, and office-based roles. The primary focus is on single-encounter, virtual musculoskeletal evaluations. The core objectives are to accurately route employees to the appropriate next-step care pathway and to clearly describe the disabling condition to aid the accommodation process. The Physical Therapist will assess the employee's condition, determine work-relatedness and injury severity, identify red and yellow flags, and translate these findings into a specific care pathway decision and a clear clinical description of functional limitations. This information will be used by the employer's accommodation team to determine and implement any necessary duty modifications. The PT will not be responsible for making the accommodation decision but will provide the essential clinical basis for it. This position does not involve managing a treatment caseload; instead, all cases will be handed off to the appropriate pathway (e.g., self-directed home program, virtual PT, in-person referral, or workers' compensation coordination), with follow-up communication to Care Coordinators. The role reports to the VP of Care Delivery.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree