Registered Physiotherapist - Dartmouth,NS
What if your next opportunity gave you a busy caseload, a team you genuinely enjoy working with, and the support to keep growing?
Choice Health Centre is hiring a Registered Physiotherapist for our collaborative health centre in Burnside, Dartmouth, NS, who is ready to thrive in their career.
Already practising? If you’ve thought about making a change but don’t want to give up an established income while rebuilding a caseload somewhere new, this opportunity is designed to reduce that risk.
Just starting your career? You can step into private practice with guaranteed income, existing patient demand, experienced practitioners around you, and structured support while you build your confidence and caseload.
Looking to get into a high demand niche? Option to learn and be mentored by our senior physiotherapist in Vestibular Rehabiliation and work closely with them with their patient caseload, in addition to a large influx of orthopaedic cases.
WHAT YOU GET
Opportunity for a signing bonus of up to $5,000
Opportunity for guaranteed earnings of up to $1,500/week for your first 3 months
Immediate patient demand: the physiotherapist previously in this role was seeing 50 orthopaedic patients per week with 8-10 new patients per week. We have since grown even more.
Realistic full-time earning potential of $80,000–$130,000+
Employee position with paid time off and paid stat holidays
Competitive split-fee compensation model with performance bonus opportunities
Flexible schedule with morning, evening, and Saturday options
Health Spending Account and Continuing Education Allowance
Full administrative support, including reception, billing, marketing, scheduling, supplies, and company systems
Free on-site parking with easy access from Halifax, Dartmouth, Sackville, and surrounding communities
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK AT CHOICE
At Choice, the connection between team members is part of the day-to-day experience.
Between patients, you’ll often find people catching up in the staff room, asking each other clinical questions, sharing stories, and laughing together.
Many of our clinicians become genuine friends, and some spend time together outside of work too.
We stay connected through our team Slack, monthly staff meetings, and regular staff events.
We intentionally look for people who want to be part of that kind of workplace: friendly, easy-going, collaborative, open to learning, and serious about providing excellent care.
Choice is locally owned and built by healthcare practitioners for healthcare practitioners. We’ve grown enough to offer the systems, support, stability, and career opportunities you’d expect from a larger organization, while still keeping the accessibility, relationships, and influence that people value in a smaller company.
Our leaders are close to the work, your ideas can shape how we grow, and as Choice expands, we intend to keep creating meaningful leadership and partnership opportunities for healthcare professionals.
COLLABORATION IS PART OF WHAT MAKES CHOICE DIFFERENT
Collaboration here is more than having several professions under one roof.
Our mission is to help every Nova Scotian thrive, and in helping our patients reach their goals, we know many can benefit from having more than one healthcare professional involved in their care.
Our Burnside, Dartmouth team includes physiotherapists, chiropractors, massage therapists, an osteopath, an occupational therapist, a naturopath, a registered counselling therapist and other health professionals. Clinicians regularly ask one another questions, discuss cases, and refer to each other when another perspective or service could benefit the patient.
We come together for monthly clinical rounds to learn from one another and discuss clinical topics and cases. We also hold Choice Celebrations to recognize meaningful patient milestones together.
Collaboration never means giving up your clinical independence. You maintain full autonomy over your own clinical decisions, assessments, and treatment plans.
THE PRACTICE YOU’RE STEPPING INTO
You definitely won’t be starting from scratch.
You’ll be building within an established centre with ongoing new-patient demand, community marketing support, and a team actively invested in helping you build and maintain a healthy caseload.
Our patient pathway, "Discover. Collaborate. Thrive." is the clinical standard that guides how we care for patients across Choice. It helps us create a consistent, elevated patient experience across our services and locations and sets a shared standard for how we support patients throughout their care.
Appointments are one-on-one in private treatment rooms, with the option to use our rehab space, including treadmill, bike, and other rehabilitation equipment. Most of our physiotherapists choose 60-minute initial assessments and 30-minute follow-up appointments, giving them time to properly assess, educate, and treat their patients. Appointment lengths can also be adjusted to support your clinical approach.
Our goal is to help you build a busy, rewarding practice without feeling like you have to do it alone.
SUPPORT WHEN YOU NEED IT
Starting somewhere new takes time, so your first week at Choice is a paid onboarding week without patients. It gives you time to get comfortable in the centre, learn our systems and patient pathway, meet the team, and settle into the space before your caseload begins.
From there, every clinician has a Clinical Lead and a monthly 1:1 coaching / check-in session. Our Centre Directors are also accessible, so support is built into the way we work rather than saved for formal reviews.
As your practice grows, we stay involved. If you have goals to grow your caseload further, we’ll work with you to understand what will help you get there. If there’s an opportunity to help patients better understand their care plan, follow through on appropriate recommendations, and stay engaged in their recovery, we’ll coach and support you. If the bigger need is simply more new patients, we’ll increase our marketing efforts.
And if you’re feeling overwhelmed, we’ll meet with you to understand what’s happening and figure out what support would actually help.
New Graduate? Your first private-practice role shouldn’t mean being handed a schedule and expected to figure everything out yourself. For your first year at Choice, we pair you with a senior clinician for structured mentorship. This can include our vestibular physiotherapist who is in need of help woth her caseload. You’ll meet weekly to start, with the frequency gradually reducing as you gain confidence, build your caseload, and become more independent in practice. You’ll also continue to have your monthly Clinical Lead check-ins and day-to-day access to experienced practitioners when questions come up.
BUILD A CAREER, NOT JUST A CASELOAD
We’re looking for clinicians who want somewhere they can grow.
Some physiotherapists want to become exceptional generalists. Others want to develop advanced skills or a clinical niche, become educators or mentors, get involved in the business, move into leadership, or eventually explore equity partnership opportunities at Choice.
Our clinician career pathways are designed to support those different ambitions, including:
Advanced clinician development
Niche and specialty practice development
Mentorship opportunities
Clinical and centre leadership
Potential future ownership opportunities
We want to understand where you want your career to go and help you work toward it.
THRIVE WITH CHOICE
We tend to be a great fit for physiotherapists who:
Care deeply about providing excellent, patient-centred care
Enjoy contributing to a friendly, social workplace
Are open to feedback, coaching, and continued learning
Like collaborating with other healthcare professionals and take a holistic approach to care
Are comfortable educating patients about their care and appropriate next steps
Want to keep growing and build a long-term career with Choice
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Registered and licensed, or eligible for registration and licensure, with the Nova Scotia Regulator of Physiotherapy (NSRPT)
Maintains all required professional liability insurance, certifications, and continuing education
Strong clinical knowledge, judgment, and evidence-informed decision-making
Strong communication, empathy, and emotional intelligence
A collaborative, team-based approach to care
Reliable, adaptable, accountable, and committed to continuous improvement
Alignment with the Choice Health Centre Mission and Values
Experienced physiotherapists and new graduates are both encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY & WHAT TO EXPECT
Apply by emailing [email protected] with your resume. Cover letters are welcomed, but not required.
Our hiring process is straightforward:
Application review: We’re interviewing on a rolling basis and aim to review all applications within 1–2 business days. If we see a potential fit, we’ll reach out promptly to schedule an initial conversation.
Initial conversation / interview: We’ll meet virtually or in person to get to know each other, learn what you’re looking for, and see whether the opportunity feels like a good fit.
Practical interview: If the initial conversation goes well, we’ll schedule a practical so we can better understand your clinical approach and you can get a feel for how we work. If an in-person practical isn’t possible because you’re still in school or living outside Nova Scotia, we can arrange a virtual practical instead.
Job offer: If we both feel it’s the right fit after the practical interview, we’ll present a job offer and walk through the key terms together. This is where we’ll answer any remaining questions and work through details such as compensation, schedule, and anticipated start date.
Contract: Once the initial offer terms are agreed upon, we’ll prepare and send the employment contract for your review and signature.
Job accepted: Once the contract is signed, we’ll confirm your start date and schedule your paid onboarding week so you know what to expect before your first patient day.
We aim to move through the interview and offer process within 1–2 weeks, while giving you the time you need to make the right decision.
Curious but not ready to apply?
Reach out for a confidential conversation about the caseload, mentorship, schedule, compensation, team, or what a career at Choice could look like.
Contact our Burnside Centre Director, Dr.Erin Kempt-Sutherland, at [email protected]
Thank you for considering Choice Health Centre. We look forward to hearing from you!
