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Occupational Therapist Jobs Offer Boundless Career Opportunities and High Wages

Author Healthcare Jobs Blogger | 09.23.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Occupational Therapy, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Travel Nurse Blog, Travel Therapist, physical therapy, therapy job bonus

Will a Travel OT Job Bonus Bump Up Your Earnings Even More?

Travel therapist or no, occupational therapists are in for some good news. According to this year’s figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the job outlook is among the best for allied healthcare professionals, enabling top incomes, job stability and ongoing demand. Occupational therapy careers are forecasted to continue their increase from 2008, by climbing a steady 26% until 2018. Many occupational therapy jobs offer incomes that average $73,380, but annual salaries, including job bonuses, can soar as high as $93,330 and up, given the right location and setting.

On the Fence About Your Next OT Travel Job?

Read 10 reasons to switch to travel therapy jobs and dispel common myths that OT travel jobs are isolating or somehow impractical. Therapists with wanderlust and penchant for fresh starts love their flexible travel occupational therapy jobs for a whole host of reasons; chiefly because it’s an opportunity to work with a variety of patient groups and develop well-roundness in settings that include skilled nursing facilities, outpatient centers, home health jobs and more. The right staffing agency can guide recent OT graduates and licensed therapists into OT travel jobs with six-figure earning potential.

Working across the country in more than just one job per year shows these professionals, who include travel physical therapists that while metro cities offer top-dollar, less rural areas may have an even greater demand for their skills and offer competitive salaries with a lower cost of living. When travel therapists consider that income can spike as much as 20% higher than their non-traveling counterparts, it may be time-especially if you are a recent graduate-to peruse travel therapy career tips for OTs and PTs.

Ask us for More Travel Therapy Career Tips and Hot Job Opportunities!

Our dedicated consultants are standing by to provide round the clock guidance and support for all potential applicants, and can help those with questions regarding proper documentation to start a travel therapy career now! Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online today—it’s the first step in landing high paying and highly rewarding occupational therapy jobs from coast to coast. Whether you’re seeking relocation to a state known for its high hourly wages, specific financial perks in the city of your dreams, or a more rural travel therapist lifestyle, we can help you realize your goals.

Footnote: Here’s an insider’s tip for recent OT grads looking for high paying occupational therapy jobs; try states that lack a surplus of OT schools, such as Alaska, Montana, Oregon and Vermont. You may also want to pursue credentials in a hot specialty, like certified hand therapist (CHT), a field dominated by occupational therapists and high in demand.

Wanted: Physical Therapists

Author Healthcare Jobs Blogger | 09.09.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Physical Therapist Jobs, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Travel Therapist, Travel physical therapy jobs, Traveling Therapist, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy, therapy job bonus

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Working at top notch rehabilitation jobs nationwide; physical therapists could be working as travel therapists or at permanent physical therapy jobs.

AUTHORITIES report:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of physical therapists is expected to grow by 30 percent from 2008 to 2018, much faster than the average for all occupations. Job opportunities will be good for licensed physical therapists in all settings. Physical Therapy job opportunities should be particularly good in acute hospital, skilled nursing, and orthopedic settings, where the elderly are most often treated. Job prospects should be especially favorable in rural areas as many physical therapists tend to cluster in highly populated urban and suburban areas.

U.S. News & World Report confirms Physical Therapists are in major demand and made the list for the Best Careers 2011: Healthcare Jobs

REWARD:

Physical Therapy job 3,000 Sign on Bonus!

Travel Force Staffing has abundant physical therapist job opportunities with incredible benefits.
Physical Therapists are in high demand nationwide, our population is aging and people are interested in staying fit and healthy.

Physical Therapists can also enjoy lucrative benefits including generous salaries and completion bonuses; free private housing; free health, dental and life insurance; licensure reimbursement; travel allowances, and many more benefits!

Travel assignments vary in length from 4-26 weeks; though most therapy positions are offered as 13-week assignments. If you are really enjoying the area you’re in and 13 weeks is not going to be enough time for you, just talk to your Consultant about extending your assignment- they will do all they can to accommodate you. We welcome new Physical Therapy graduates as well.

Fill out our brief online application or call 800-617-0608, and start exploring your PT career options. Travel Force Staffing expert recruiters are standing by to take your phone call.

10 Reasons to Switch to Travel Therapy Jobs

Author Therapy Career Blogger | 08.25.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Continuing Education Units (CEU), Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapist Education, Speech Language Pathologist, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Travel Therapist, Travel physical therapy jobs, physical therapist licensing, physical therapy, physical therapy job questions, rehabilitation therapy, therapy job bonus

Allied healthcare professionals, drawn to new cultures, climates and the travel done in between, covet high paying occupational and physical therapy jobs offered by prestigious staffing agencies. If you’re looking to take your therapy career to the next level, one that offers a competitive salary, free luxury private housing and more, please do read on!

Checklist: 10 Reasons to Switch to Travel Therapy Jobs

1. Travel therapy jobs let your inner-traveler go beyond guidebooks: Sites and attractions are to be enjoyed at your sole discretion and leisure. It’s not like you’re the average tourist, trying to cram everything into one vacation.
2. Staffing consultants work closely with every therapist. Thanks to VIP customer care, you tailor your own therapist career, living where you want, working the hours that suit you best.
3. Continuing Education is free. Advance in your therapist career from the comfort of your laptop. We have hundreds of online classes to choose from! See some of the  Free CE online courses
4. These therapy jobs are flexible! If you fall in love with a city during your therapy job, you can easily arrange to extend that position or find a permanent therapist job in your desired city.
5. Free private housing is located in a prime location. Live in apartments with amenities that encourage exercise (i.e. pools and gyms) and are either very close to your travel therapy job or located next to public transportation.
6. Get a bonus when you refer a therapist! Be sure to refer a colleague who loves the idea of a travel therapist lifestyle too.  See current travel therapy jobs bonuses.
7. Company matched 401(k) and travel reimbursements come with every travel therapy job. Once you peruse the Travel Force benefits package, you’ll want to sign on!
8. Accepting a travel therapy job means lightening your load. A consultant handles the particulars; the only thing you must do is ace your job interview, pack your belongings and get on the road. Deciding what the essentials are rids your life of clutter. See basic travel therapy job documentation needed to get started
9. Making plans for your future has never been this fun. Formulate a list of “Must-See places” before embarking on your new therapy career. Cram your glove compartment with maps and guidebooks. It’s a great opportunity for graduate physical therapists coming out of college.
10. You build confidence by working in more than just one facility. Increase your ability to adapt, acclimate and thrive in travel therapy jobs.

Travel Force Staffing Professionals Help You Learn to Travel Light

Allied healthcare professionals love travel therapy jobs because they are flexible, challenging, and offer great career benefits and pay when compared to permanent positions. Travel therapy jobs allow you to be the architect of where you work and for how long—rest assured our SLP jobs, physical and occupational therapy jobs are in America’s best hospitals; 80% of our affiliates appear in a top rated list, published consistently in U.S. News & World Report. Remember our checklist of why becoming a travel therapist is a brilliant move. You want to travel light, even if a decision like this is seldom made lightly—that is exactly why you need an expert staffing agency to help you take the plunge.

Travel Force Staffing provides recruitment solutions for America’s top rated rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient and Rehab centers, skilled nursing facilities, and private therapy practices located in all 50 U.S. states. Our experienced team of staffing experts place physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, surgical technologists and per diem staff and other allied healthcare professionals into therapy careers nationwide. Contact us today at 800-617-0608 for instant access to cutting edge recruitment technology, therapy career resources, news, and information.

Physical Therapy Student Loan Repayment Changes Proposed

Author Healthcare Jobs Blogger | 07.21.2011 | Category Allied Healthcare, Career Tips, Education, Physical Therapist Education, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Top Rehab Careers, Top Therapy Blogs, Travel Nurse Blog, Travel Therapist, Travel physical therapy jobs, Videos, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy, therapy job bonus, video

PT’s Speak Out on Educational Debt

Introduced earlier this year, the Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2011 amends the Public Health Service Act to include physical therapy in the definition of “primary health services.”  The proposed change would make physical therapists eligible for repayment of their student loans under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. Although physical therapists have been excluded under this bill, many health professions are covered by legislation that forgives a certain amount of student loan debt for every year of work in an under-served area. Too often, large under-served areas go without comprehensive health and therapy services, so the NHSC has made it a mission to bring access to these areas.  This bill would allow up to $30,000 in loan forgiveness per year (for a maximum of 2 years) in exchange for service in a disadvantaged area.

The Act is intended to encourage physical therapists to serve in rural and urban under-served communities, primarily by easing the educational debts of physical therapists who would otherwise find it financially impractical to work in these locations. Ultimately some of these therapists may decide to practice long-term in these locations, once their NHSC service is complete.

In June of this year, approximately 1,000 physical therapists, PTA’s and students of physical therapy visited their U.S. Representatives and Senators as part of this year’s PT Day on Capitol Hill. The PT’s visited their congressional reps to lobby on legislation that affects the profession. Check out the APTA’s video of their visit to DC here:

Looks like becoming part of the political process made for an energizing, inspiring day.

How to Be Heard

As of this writing, the bill was currently under consideration in the House Subcommittee on Health. If you would like to speak out on this legislation (H.R. 1426/S. 975), you can email your congressional representatives directly or through the APTA’s Legislative Action Center by visiting www.apta.org/TakeAction

More Ways to Cope with your Physical Therapy Student Loan and Educational Expenses

Recent physical therapy graduates may also want to consider travel therapy jobs as an effective way to defray the costs of rehab therapy education. Not only  are the physical therapist salary and compensation attractive on travel assignments, there are also bonus programs that can make a real difference  to the bottom line. Travel therapy jobs are also a low-risk way to try out different clinical settings — short and long-term  rehab therapy assignments are available in metropolitan and rural settings, in rehabilitation clinics, and in teaching hospitals.

Fill out our brief online application or call 800-617-0608, and start exploring your PT career options. Travel Force Staffing expert recruiters are standing by to take your phone call.

PT and OTs Sign on Bonus $3k-$5k

Author Healthcare Jobs Blogger | 11.24.2009 | Category Allied Healthcare, Occupational Therapy, Therapist Jobs, Therapy Jobs, Travel Therapist, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy, therapy job bonus

PTs and OTs are in high demand and, for a limited time, Travel Force is offering a Completion Bonus  from  $3,000 - $5,000 on most therapy jobs. Any PT or OT who starts first assignment between 11/1/09 - 3/31/10. Please contact one of  our expert Consultants for more details about this therapy job bonus. Apply online or call 800-617-0608.

The average physical therapist job hourly compensation ranges from a minimum of $40 up to $50 per hour.
Hourly pay, completion bonuses plus a complete benefit package of free private housing, free health insurance, travel, 401(k) are why many therapists choose travel over permanent positions.

If you are wondering what types of healthcare facilities Travel Force staffs, it’s simple to answer.

Travel Force has access to more than 3,000 hospitals and outpatient facilities nationwide. We staff everything from small rural hospitals and resort facilities to large teaching schools and big city trauma units. We also have high paying travel therapy jobs in therapy centers and children’s hospitals across the U.S.