- Company: CompHealth
- Location: South Carolina (statewide)
- Salary: $1,749–$3,413/wk
CompHealth at a glance
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Registered healthcare provider organization (Clinic/Center) — via CMS NPPES
CompHealth is a healthcare staffing division of CHG Healthcare that places clinicians in temporary and travel assignments. It has been recognized by the Joint Commission for quality and safety in health care staffing and has seen leadership updates, including a new CompHealth division president.
CompHealth is seeking a licensed Physical Therapist for full-time travel assignments in South Carolina. This role offers competitive pay from $1,749 to $3,413 weekly with an immediate start date. If you're ready to make a direct impact on patient outcomes while maintaining the flexibility travel work provides, we'd like to hear from you.
About the Role
As a travel Physical Therapist with CompHealth, you'll deliver evidence-based therapeutic care across multiple clinical settings throughout South Carolina. This is a full-time position designed for licensed professionals who thrive in dynamic environments and want the autonomy to focus on patient care while our team manages the logistics.
What You'll Do
- Evaluate patients and develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical assessments and physician recommendations
- Deliver direct patient care including therapeutic exercises, manual techniques, and functional mobility training
- Document patient progress, maintain detailed clinical records, and communicate with the healthcare team
- Adapt treatment protocols based on patient response and changing clinical needs
- Work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimize patient outcomes
What We're Looking For
- Active, unrestricted Physical Therapist license in South Carolina
- Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy or higher (DPT required for most settings)
- Current CPR certification
- Strong clinical skills and ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Flexibility and adaptability to different patient populations and treatment environments
- Professional communication and documentation skills
Why Choose CompHealth
We handle the details you shouldn't have to—credentialing, licensure verification, housing coordination, and travel logistics. You focus on delivering exceptional patient care while we provide the professional support and administrative infrastructure that makes travel assignments seamless.
How to Apply
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What people say about CompHealth
- New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
- Ask HN: Any US companies who offer less than 40 hour weeks
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Recent news
- CHG Healthcare appoints president at CompHealth division - Staffing Industry Analysts
- The unexpected reasons driving physician turnover - Medical Economics
- CompHealth Recognized by Joint Commission for Quality and Safety in Health Care Staffing - Business Wire
- CHG Healthcare Appoints Ema Prince as President of CompHealth’s Permanent Placement Division, Advancing Enterprise Workforce Strategy - Business Wire
- CompHealth puts people before bottom line - CTPost
Aggregated from public discussions and news; opinions are the authors’ own.
Working in South Carolina (statewide)
South Carolina sits in the Southeastern U.S., bordering North Carolina, Georgia, and the Atlantic. Travel PTs often rotate through hospitals and outpatient clinics statewide. Learn more on Wikipedia.
South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern, South Atlantic and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia to the west and south across the Savannah River. Along with North Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast. South Carolina is the 11th-smallest and 23rd-most populous U.S
🇺🇸 Relocation safety for US: Exercise Normal Caution — via Warnely, CC BY 4.0
National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
National job openings rate: 4.6% — via BLS JOLTS
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 208,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in US: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
Unemployment rate in South Carolina: 4.4% — via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cost of living in South Carolina: 6.3% below the national average — via BEA
Minimum wage in South Carolina: $7.25/hr — via FRED
Real GDP per capita in South Carolina: $51,483 — via FRED
Home prices in South Carolina (year over year): +3.4% — via FRED
Source: Wikipedia (state)
About this role & career path
Travel PT work builds speed with diverse diagnoses and settings. O*NET (SOC 29-1123.00) emphasizes exam, treatment planning, documentation, and interdisciplinary conferral—skills that transfer across facilities and future permanent roles. Source: O*NET.
Traits that fit this role
- Optimism
- Sincerity
- Perseverance
- Empathy
- Self-Control
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require graduate school -- for example, a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. — via O*NET
Industry news
- Care Career Announces Acquisition of MAS Medical Staffing, Completing Its First Acquisition Phase and Expanding Annual Revenue Beyond $150 Million, with a Path to Exceed a Quarter Billion by the End of 2026 Through Additional Acquisitions and Organic - PR Newswire
- Rockland healthcare staffing business sues nurse agency - Westfair Communications
- Baltimore County Launches Paid Healthcare Workforce Training Program - Conduit Street Blog
Source: O*NET (public-domain bulk data)
Salary & compensation
Workers in Healthcare Practitioners & Technical occupations earn a national median of $71,383 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Build the skills for this role
- Sharp initial exams and clear documentation for travel onboarding
- Flexible treatment progression across settings
- Patient/family education for short-stay episodes
- Reliable communication with host teams and your CompHealth recruiter
- Describe a complex eval and how you set goals quickly
- Explain how you adjust plans when progress stalls
- Give examples of teaching home programs under time pressure
- Ask about assignment length, housing, licensure support, and site orientation
Watch & learn
Video via YouTube.
Strong fit if you want contract mobility, varied caseloads, and independence as a PT while a large staffing firm handles logistics. Less ideal if you prefer one permanent clinic and long-term patient relationships only.
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Listing facts
- Role Travel Physical Therapist
- Employer CompHealth
- Location South Carolina (statewide)
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) $1,749–$3,413/wk
- Posted March 5, 2026
- Apply by August 1, 2026
- Country United States
- Overview Full job description on this page (300 words)
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Typical work in Travel Physical Therapist
Independent occupational context from O*NET (U.S. public-domain labor data). This is about the occupation, not a rewrite of this employer's posting.
- Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
- Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
- Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
- Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
- Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
Independent web sources about this employer
First-party research links used to ground company context (not review-site star ratings).
- CompHealth Overview, Address & Contact - prospeo.io — CompHealth is one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the United States offering permanent, locum tenens, travel and other place…
- CHG family of brands: The largest locum tenens provider — CHG's staffing brands: CompHealth, Weatherby, and Global Medical Staffing CompHealth CompHealth is the first and largest company in the locu…
- CompHealth | NALTO Directory — CompHealth Agency Member info@comphealth.com 453-3030 https://comphealth.com/ Visit Website
- CompHealth - Overview, News & Similar companies | ZoomInfo.com — CompHealth, established in 1979, is a prominent healthcare staffing provider specializing in the temporary and permanent placement of physic…
- CompHealth Jobs & Careers | Health eCareers — Explore healthcare jobs at CompHealth. Learn about the organization, open roles, and apply today on Health eCareers
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Public discussions & open sources
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- Hacker News — New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
- Hacker News — Ask HN: Any US companies who offer less than 40 hour weeks
- Hacker News — Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split
- Hacker News — Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
- Dev.to — Better than Next.js? Is Rust Finally Ready for Full-Stack Web Development? Introducing Topcoat
- Dev.to — Loop Engineering: How to Stop Your Agent Reward-Hacking Its Own Checks
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