About the role
Root Pediatrics is hiring a pediatric physical therapist in Bozeman, Montana — part-time. You’d work with children and families on gross motor development, mobility, strength, and balance — evaluating, planning, and treating one-on-one in a purpose-built pediatric space.
Pediatrics here bends to the child, not the other way around. You adjust session length to what a kid actually needs that day. You choose the location of service around the child too — the clinic’s peds gym, or home-based early-intervention visits when that’s what serves the family. And you’re never doing it alone: fellow pediatric PTs, occupational therapists, and a speech-language pathologist are down the hall, so multidisciplinary problem-solving is a conversation, not a referral form.
New grads are welcome. What matters most to us is pediatric experience — fieldwork and clinical rotations with kids count for more than years in practice somewhere else. If you light up helping kids reach milestones and move with confidence, we want to talk to you.
How We Work — and Why Therapists Stay
You are the expert here, and the advocate for your patient’s care. That isn’t a slogan — it’s the operating model. You decide what’s best for the people you treat, every session is one-on-one, and nobody is ever double-booked. Your clinical judgment is why we’d hire you, so we don’t override it with a schedule.
A few practical things we’ve built because they matter to real life:
- Paid documentation time, included as needed depending on your schedule load — charting isn’t homework you do for free.
- Real schedule flexibility. Life has family demands, trips worth taking, and days that need to bend. We adjust schedules to make time off actually work — that goes for part-time and full-time alike.
- The same benefits at part-time as full-time — and health insurance is fully paid once you’re over 25 hours a week. The full list is on our careers page.
How Hiring Works Here
It starts with a phone call — no committee, no personality quiz. If we both like what we hear, you’ll come in and interview in person with someone you’d actually be working beside, see the space, and get honest answers about the caseload. We’ll respond to your application within the week.
An Honest Note About Bozeman
Local candidates, this is your hometown advantage — we’d love to hear from you. If you’d be relocating: Bozeman is a genuinely wonderful place to live and work, and it is genuinely expensive. We can’t offer relocation assistance, so please come with clear eyes about the cost of living. Plenty of people make it work and love it here; we just won’t pretend the math is easy.
What you'd do
Comprehensive evaluations
Assess each child’s motor development, strength, tone, balance, and gait, alongside their history and what the family is actually worried about.
Develop tailored treatment plans
Design developmentally appropriate, play-based plans targeting motor milestones, mobility, coordination, and confident movement.
Administer therapeutic interventions
Deliver hands-on, one-on-one treatment for gross motor delays, gait differences, neurological and genetic conditions, and post-injury recovery.
Collaborative care
Work closely with parents, caregivers, physicians, and our OTs and SLP on a child-centered plan that builds independence.
Monitor and adapt treatment
Track each child’s progress and adjust the plan as they grow and change, including equipment and orthotic needs.
Family education and support
Coach parents and caregivers so the work carries over at home, where most of a child’s hours actually happen.
Contribute to how we practice
Share feedback with the team on our therapy practices, processes, and facilities.
Skills and requirements
Benefits
Every benefit above applies to part-time and full-time team members alike — and health insurance is fully paid for anyone working over 25 hours a week.
Other open roles
Physical Therapist
Treat orthopedic injuries and chronic pain in one-on-one sessions, never double-booked, with real independence over your plans of care.
Pediatric Occupational Therapist
One-on-one pediatric OT — sensory, fine motor, daily living, and play — with session length and location shaped around each child. New grads welcome.
Equal opportunity employer
Root Therapy and Wellness is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, Montana, or local law.
That applies to every part of working here — hiring, placement, pay, benefits, training, promotion, and everything after.
Need a reasonable accommodation to apply or interview? Just tell us and we'll work it out with you: (406) 219-5388 or careers@rootbozeman.com.
Interested in this role?
Email your resume with "Pediatric Physical Therapist" in the subject line. We'll respond within the week.
Bozeman, MT 59715
On-site parking
Scheduling is flexible within them