Ready to Build Real Clinical Experience - Not Just Fill Time?
- What if the months before your next step could actually move you closer to the career you want, instead of just paying the bills while you wait? If you are aiming for a future in physical therapy, medicine, nursing, PA, or another health profession, you already know the hard part. Everyone tells you to “get experience,” but most of the jobs open to you before graduate school barely let you near a patient.
- You have probably seen the listings. “Rehab aide.” “PT tech.” Then you read the fine print and realize the day is mostly folding laundry, wiping down tables, and watching the clock while the people who actually treat patients never engage and share their knowledge. It does not have to go like that.
- At Orthopaedics Plus, a Rehab Technician is part of the clinical team from day one. You work on the treatment floor, with patients, under the direction of fellowship-trained physical therapists who explain what they are doing and why. You leave with real patient-care hours, real skills, real references, and real clarity about the path you are chasing. We are a therapist-owned practice, and we build these roles the way we build our clinician roles: with structure, mentorship, and the belief that the people who work here should leave better than they arrived.
Who We're Looking For:
- Are you curious about how the body recovers, and do you want a front-row seat to watch it happen? Would you rather be handed real responsibility than left on the sidelines?
- The Rehab Technicians who thrive at Orthopaedics Plus are dependable, humble, and genuinely interested in people. They stay engaged when the clinic gets busy, they ask good questions, and they look for the next thing that needs doing instead of waiting to be told. Many of them are exercise science, kinesiology, or pre-health students, recent graduates, or people taking a gap year before PT, PA, nursing, or medical school. What they share is simple: they want the time they spend here to move their future forward. If that sounds like you, we would love to meet you!
Why Clinicians Are Joining Orthopaedics Plus:
- Work That Actually Puts You Next to Patient Care: A lot of aide jobs keep you busy but keep you away from the reason you took the job. Here, your day is built around the treatment floor. You will greet patients by name, set them up with the exercises their therapist has prescribed, guide them through familiar movements, watch how they respond, and report what you see back to the PT. You are not observing healthcare from the waiting room. You are part of how it happens.
- A Team That Teaches You On Purpose: We have reasonable productivity standards for our clinicians and that pace is intentional. It means the Physical Therapist you are working beside actually has time to explain what they are seeing, why they chose a particular exercise, and what a patient's movement is telling them. You will work alongside clinicians like Alex Trotsky, a fellowship-trained (FAAOMPT) manual therapist, on a team that treats teaching as part of the job. We would rather you understand the “why” than just execute the “what.”
- Values That Show Up in the Work
- Meaningful Results - Everyone leaves as a success story. You will watch patients walk in guarded and frustrated and, weeks later, move better and stand taller. You are part of that.
- Teamwork - Collaboration leads to extraordinary results. PTs, Patient Care Coordinators, and Rehab Technicians run as one team here. When the floor gets busy, we cover for each other. You will not be left on your own.
- Education - The best way to learn is to teach. The clinicians here explain their reasoning as they go. Before long, you will be able to explain to a patient how a movement should feel.
- Challenge the Status Quo - Can we be better? You will be asked what you notice. If you spot a smoother way to run the floor, we want to hear it, and you will help update the same playbook you were trained on.
- Experience That Counts Where It Matters: If your goal is PT, PA, nursing, or medical school, you already know admissions committees want more than good grades. They want to see that you have spent real time around patients and understood what you saw. This role gives you exactly that: direct patient-care experience, exposure to clinical reasoning, and the kind of hands-on and observation hours most health-profession programs look for. And when it is time to apply, you will have something else that matters just as much: licensed, fellowship-trained physical therapists who know your work and can write you a reference that actually carries weight.
- A Real Growth Path: For a lot of people, this role is the first real step into healthcare. It is a launchpad. Some of our technicians use their time here to confirm that physical therapy is their path and head to PT school with a stronger application. Others discover the operations side and grow toward patient-coordination or administrative roles. We will not promise you a promotion, because growth depends on your readiness and what the organization needs. What we will promise is that we pay attention, we give honest feedback, and we help you take the next step, wherever it leads.
- A Culture That Has Your Back: You will not be handed a set of keys and told to figure it out. You will be trained with a documented Rehab Technician playbook, you will know exactly what is expected of you, and you will have regular check-ins with your team leader focused on how you are doing and what you need. When you are new, someone will teach you. When you do good work, someone will notice.
- Work That Aligns With Your Values: Many clinicians leave their current roles because their workplace no longer aligns with the values that brought them
What You'll Do:
- Warmly greet patients and help keep treatment flowing so no one waits and no therapist falls behind.
- Set up prescribed exercises based on each patient's flowsheet and the treating PT's direction.
- Guide patients through familiar exercises and supervise them for safe, proper technique.
- Watch how patients respond and communicate progressions, regressions, questions, or concerns back to the PT.
- Keep treatment spaces clean, organized, reset, and well stocked between patients.
- Monitor supplies, linens, and equipment, and restock or flag what is running low before it becomes a problem.
- Support the front desk and patient scheduling once your patient-care responsibilities are handled.
- Help maintain home-exercise and patient-outcome systems, and scan and organize documents as needed.
- Share what you notice, contribute ideas that make the clinic run better, and help keep the Rehab Technician playbook current.
What Success Looks Like:
- Patients feel welcomed, safe, and genuinely cared for from the moment they walk in.
- Exercises are set up correctly and supervised safely, every time.
- Therapists get timely, useful communication about how their patients are doing.
- Treatment areas stay clean, organized, and ready so clinicians can focus on care.
- Patient flow stays smooth even when the clinic is busy.
- You stay proactive, dependable, and engaged, and you become someone the team counts on.
- You grow, in confidence, in knowledge, and in the responsibility you can carry.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- College coursework in exercise science, kinesiology, physical therapy, or a related field preferred.
- Experience with exercise, athletics, or fitness preferred.
- Strong communication and organization, and comfort staying calm and useful when the clinic is busy.
- Humility, initiative, adaptability, and positive energy.
- A genuine desire to help people.
- Alignment with our core values.
Meet the Clinician You'll Learn From:
- As a Rehab Technician in Beverly, you learn directly from the clinical team, including some of the most experienced manual therapists in the region.
- Alex Trotsky, PT, MSPT, FAAOMPT, OMT
- Alex is a fellowship-trained manual therapist through the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists, with a specialty in treating runners and endurance athletes. He believes great outcomes start with a strong relationship, and he brings the same curiosity to teaching that he brings to his patients. He meets people where they are and helps them level up.
One Last Thing:
- You are going to spend the next year or two somewhere. You can spend it filling time, or you can spend it building the experience, the skills, and the relationships that move you toward the career you actually want.
If you want a role where your contribution matters and your time here keeps paying off long after you leave, apply today. Tell us where you are trying to go. We will help you get there.
