Helping therapists find adventure and freedom through travel jobs
What is travel physical therapy? Have you thought about working a travel PT contract? Travel physical therapy (travel PT or travel therapy) refers to working temporary contracts, usually 13 weeks at a time. Travel PTs work at all of the same places that a permanent physical therapist works, such as an outpatient clinic, hospital, inpatient …
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Have you heard about travel occupational therapy (also called Travel OT or travel therapy)? Travel OT may sound too good to be true, but it’s not! Travel occupational therapists traverse the United States and work short-term contracts. Yes, you can get paid to travel the country and work. If you have an adventurous soul or …
Congrats! You got a job as a traveling therapist! Now, you need to find short-term housing for your travel therapy assignment. Finding housing can be one of the most challenging parts of travel therapy. You have come to the right place! As a therapist who has taken travel assignments for over 10 years, I have …
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Are you ready to live the dream life in 2024? Relax on the beach in Hawaii or conquer that glacier in Alaska? You might not need any reasons to be a traveling therapist, but in case you do, I got you! Travel therapists work short-term contracts across the United States and provide solutions to temporary …
Travel therapists face some unique tax concerns and often have many travel therapy tax questions. Working in multiple states, identifying and maintaining a tax home, and deducting expenses are some unique issues to travelers. Joseph Smith specializes in helping mobile professionals with tax preparation at Travel Tax. He is a former traveling respiratory therapist and …
Do you travel a lot and miss mail? Maybe you’ve had bills go to collections or miss important paperwork. Let me introduce you to a virtual mailbox. A virtual mailbox is a physical location where you can send you mail, and it gets scanned and uploaded for you to read online. You never have to …
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As a travel therapy content creator, one of the most common questions I receive is “what are the pros and cons of travel therapy” While travel may seem glamorous, it is definitely not all unicorns and rainbows. It can be a hard path to take and one that takes some consideration and planning. Without further …
Thinking about becoming a traveling therapist but not sure what that even means? Unsure where to find travel therapy jobs? You’ve come to the right place. This website is full of travel therapy resources created by an expert in the travel therapy industry to help you find success. So let’s get started. What are travel …
Travel speech-language pathologists take short-term contracts across the United States to fill temporary staffing needs. As a travel SLP, one month you might be working in a skilled nursing facility in Virginia, and the next month doing home health in California. If this sounds like your dream job, then you might be wondering how to …
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As a traveling therapist, you are working temporary job assignments. The lack of consistency in working with agencies and gaps between contracts could make health insurance an issue. In the United States, we rely primarily on employer-sponsored health insurance, which can be an issue when you constantly change employers. If you are curious about how …
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Calling all aspiring traveling therapists. If you are thinking about working short-term assignments in the travel therapy industry, you probably noticed that there are hundreds of staffing agencies. It can get very overwhelming to choose an agency. So how do you find the best travel therapy companies? Personally, I do not think that there is …
The first day of a new travel therapy assignment can make even the most experienced travel therapist nervous. Don’t worry, because you got this! Arriving prepared for your first day can help to ease the transition into a new building and start your contract on a positive note. I have worked over thirty travel therapy …
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