- Company: Aya Healthcare
- Location: Catalina, Pima County
- Salary: $2,187–$2,386/wk
- Full Time
- Catalina, Pima County
- $2,187–$2,386/wk
- Apply on company site
- $2,187–$2,386/wk
Aya Healthcare at a glance
visualvisitor.comSEC filings mentioning "Aya Healthcare": 48 — search EDGAR
Federal funding recipient: largest known award $2.3M from the Department of Health and Human Services (started Apr 8, 2020) — via USAspending.gov
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2,067 employees covered under a retirement plan (2017 filing) — via DOL Form 5500 / EFAST2
Aya Healthcare is a U.S. healthcare staffing firm that places travel clinicians—including physical therapists—on temporary assignments with hospitals and clinics. Recent legal coverage has focused on arbitration practices in employment disputes (e.g., O’Dell v. Aya).
Aya Healthcare is hiring a Travel Physical Therapist (PT) for a 13-week assignment in Tucson, AZ, with weekly pay ranging from $2,187 to $2,386. If you're a licensed PT ready to bring your rehabilitation expertise to a new community, this travel contract offers competitive compensation and the backing of one of the industry's most established staffing partners.
About the Role
This is a full-time travel Physical Therapist position based in Tucson, AZ, serving the greater Catalina and Pima County area. The assignment runs for 13 weeks beginning July 27, 2026, on a day shift schedule of five 8-hour shifts per week. As a traveling PT with Aya Healthcare, you'll deliver hands-on patient care while enjoying the flexibility and variety that contract work provides.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate patients and develop individualized physical therapy treatment plans
- Provide therapeutic interventions to restore mobility, strength, and function
- Track patient progress and adjust care plans to meet recovery goals
- Document treatment accurately and communicate with the broader care team
- Educate patients and families on rehabilitation techniques and at-home strategies
Qualifications
- Active Physical Therapist (PT) license valid for practice in Arizona
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy program
- Availability for the full 13-week contract on a Monday–Friday day schedule
- Willingness to relocate or travel to the Tucson, AZ assignment location
- Strong clinical judgment and a patient-centered approach to care
About Aya Healthcare
Aya Healthcare connects skilled clinicians with assignments across the country and consistently offers one of the largest selections of jobs in the staffing industry. Travelers benefit from unlimited continuing education units (CEUs) through MedBridge, helping you keep your skills sharp and your license current at no extra cost. The Aya team works alongside you to match your goals with the right opportunity.
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What people say about Aya Healthcare
- Aya: An open LLM by 3k independent researchers across the globe
- My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
- Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
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Recent news
- Five Takeaways for California Employers from the Ninth Circuit’s Arbitration Ruling in O’Dell v. Aya Healthcare Services - California Employment Law Report
- Aya Healthcare | More Than A Travel Agency Fertilizer (IXY2iUIA6O) - Mshale
- Cross Country Healthcare to be taken private by PE firm for $437M - Healthcare Dive
- Ninth Circuit Stops Class-Wide Abuse of Adverse Arbitration Decisions in Win for Employers - CDF Labor Law LLP
- Courts Must Evaluate Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements Individually - California Employment Law Update
Aggregated from public discussions and news; opinions are the authors’ own.
Working in Catalina, Pima County
🇺🇸 Relocation safety for US: Exercise Normal Caution — via Warnely, CC BY 4.0
National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 215,000 — 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
About this role & career path
Travel physical therapy (O*NET 29-1123.00) builds clinical breadth across settings while keeping core PT skills: exam, diagnosis-informed treatment, documentation, and interdisciplinary communication. Strong performers often move into senior clinician, clinical specialist, or travel leadership paths.
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
- Ardian acquires German healthcare staffing platform Pflegia - Staffing Industry Analysts
- Private Equity Healthcare Acquisitions – May 2026 - Private Equity Stakeholder Project PESP
- West Virginia investing $1.8 million in rural healthcare staffing as residents struggle - WVOW Radio
Source: O*NET (public-domain bulk data)
Salary & compensation
The listing states a weekly pay range of $2,187–$2,386 for this Tucson-area assignment. Confirm what is included (housing, stipends, benefits, taxes) with the recruiter; no independent salary benchmarks are provided in the source data.
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
Prioritize: individualized treatment planning; initial exam and problem identification; clinical documentation; patient/family instruction; outcome-based plan adjustment; and conferring with care teams. No certification resources or costs were supplied in the certs data.
Prepare clinical examples of eval-to-plan workflows, home-program teaching, and progress documentation. Ask about caseload, setting (outpatient vs. inpatient), EMR, assignment length, housing, and how Aya supports onboarding at the Catalina site.
Watch & learn
Video via YouTube.
Best fit for licensed PTs who want travel flexibility, solid clinical autonomy, and short-term Arizona placements. Less ideal if you need permanent roots, remote work, or minimal documentation load.
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Listing facts
- Role Travel Physical Therapist (PT) – $2,187 to $2,386 per week in Tucson, AZ
- Employer Aya Healthcare
- Location Catalina, Pima County
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) $2,187–$2,386/wk
- Posted June 27, 2026
- Apply by 2026-07-29
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (316 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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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
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- Aya Healthcare - Phone, Email, Employees, CEO, VP, 2024 — Aya Healthcare (http://www.ayahealthcare.com) location in California, United States, revenue, industry and description. Find related and si…
- Aya Healthcare Careers and Employment | Indeed.com — Find out what works well at Aya Healthcare from the people who know best. Get the inside scoop on jobs, salaries, top office locations, and…
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- Aya Healthcare: Jobs | LinkedIn — Aya Healthcare | 168,351 followers on LinkedIn. Aya Healthcare is the largest healthcare talent software and staffing company in the United…
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- Hacker News — Aya: An open LLM by 3k independent researchers across the globe
- Dev.to — My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
- Dev.to — Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
- Dev.to — 26B Gemma 4 QAT Deployment with GCE g2-standard, NVIDIA L4, MCP, and Antigravity CLI
- Dev.to — 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026
- Dev.to — TPU Deployments with Gemma 31B, v6e-8, and Antigravity CLI
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