Physiotherapist and hand therapist jobs · Singapore
Let’s build your practice together.
Without a landlord raising the rent at every renewal. You bring your hands, your patients and your doctors. We carry the lease, the staff, the marketing and the company’s accounts.
For orthopedic, sports and musculoskeletal physiotherapists and hand therapists. Two kinds of therapist read this page. Start with the one that’s you.
- 5 clinics
- 45-minute appointments, one to one
- No therapy assistants
- Contract for service
- No fee to join
If you run your own practice
You opened a clinic to treat patients. Now you treat patients in the gaps between running it.
Count the jobs you did last week that weren’t treatment.
- Marketing. The post you wrote on Sunday night, the Google reviews you had to ask for, the ads you stopped because you couldn’t tell what they brought in
- Sales. The enquiry at 9.40pm that only becomes a booking if you answer it before you go to bed
- Accounts. Payroll, your staff’s CPF, the company’s tax filing, Corppass, and the software invoice for something you forgot you subscribed to
- Staff. The associate you trained for a year who gets poached. Or worse, the one who leaves and takes your patients with them
- Rent. The renewal letter. The number on it has never been smaller
- Leave. The holiday where you open the bank app at the airport and work out whether next month’s rent is covered
None of it is clinical. All of it is yours.
The part owners don’t say out loud
Every hour on the business is an hour not paid at your rate.
You’re the clinician, the owner, the marketer, the receptionist’s cover and the accountant’s first draft. Only one of those jobs pays what you trained for. The others pay nothing, and they take the hours that would.
“One more therapist and it’ll ease.” It doesn’t. Another therapist is another salary to cover in a slow month, another year of training, and another person who can walk out with the doctors you introduced them to.
Your real rate is lower than your fee. Take last year’s takings. Take off rent, salaries, CPF, software, card fees, marketing and the accountant. Divide what’s left by every hour you worked, including the ones after seven. Keep that number. You’ll need it at the coffee.
And you carry it alone. Not with your associate, who might leave. Not with your patients. Not with your spouse at eleven at night, again. The case that isn’t progressing, the surgeon who stopped referring, the month the numbers didn’t add up: there’s nobody in the building to say them to.
Your lease has an end date. Somewhere between now and then you’ll decide whether to sign again. That’s the decision this page is really about.
If you work in someone else’s clinic
You bring in the patients. Someone else keeps most of the fee.
- You know what the patient paid at the counter. You know what’s on your payslip. You’ve done the division
- A doctor asks for you by name. The referral goes into the clinic’s system, and the clinic’s name goes on the letter back
- Your diary is set for you: the targets, the extra slot at 7.15pm, the new patient you didn’t choose
- Your name is on nothing. Not the website, not a program, not the report a surgeon reads
- Leave is a request, and the answer depends on the diary
Where this usually goes
The only way out anyone shows you is the most expensive one.
Everyone who’s had enough says the same sentence: one day I’ll open my own place. Read the section for owners. That’s what one day looks like from the inside.
“I’ll build my own doctors while I’m here.” The doctors you build there are built for there. The referral pad carries the clinic’s name, and so does every report the surgeon reads.
Staying costs you the difference every month. Leaving to open a clinic costs you a lease, a payroll and your evenings. Neither gets you what you actually want, which is your own caseload, your own doctors and your own hours.
Before you read on, read your contract: the notice period and any non-solicitation clause. We’ll ask to see both, and we’ll expect you to honor them.
Both of you want the same thing
Your practice and your clinic are two different things. You only ever wanted one of them.
Your practice is your patients, your doctors, your clinical judgment and your name. Your clinic is the lease, the desk, the payroll, the marketing and the WhatsApp at 10.40pm. Somewhere along the way we’re all told they come as a set. They don’t.
Why Phoenix exists
We’ve already signed the leases, hired the staff and made the mistakes. You don’t have to.
In public healthcare I was seeing six to eight patients in the same hour. Work that needed forty-five focused minutes got ten. The therapists around me weren’t worn down by the clinical work. They were worn down by everything stacked on top of it.
In 2008 Louise and I built our first clinic. I’ve been the owner doing the accounts at midnight. We made every beginner mistake there is: the wrong lease, the wrong hire, the month the numbers didn’t add up. We built that clinic, and we sold it. Louise started Phoenix Rehab in 2018 and I joined her in 2019, with every one of those lessons. Since then we’ve opened five clinics.
I don’t see patients anymore, and that’s deliberate. A clinic that needs its founder in the treatment room is a job with a lease. Phoenix is built to run without me in it, which means the clinical seats go to working clinicians. That’s what this page is for.
What changes when you join
What stays yours, and what we carry.
Yours
- Your patients, one to one. No therapy assistants. Every appointment is 45 minutes with you.
- Your referring doctors. A referral that names you comes to you. If you’re still building your doctors, we help you meet them.
- Your clinical judgment. Nobody tells you how to treat.
- Your declared interest. Every Phoenix therapist holds a declared clinical interest, and patients are matched to it.
- Your letters back. You write the one-page report your referring surgeon gets at weeks 2, 6 and 12, from your plan record on our template, and it goes out under your name.
- Your hours. You’re on a contract for service. You decide how much you work. Fewer days means less income. That’s honest.
- Your name. On your profile, on articles in your interest, and on the program pages where you’re the named therapist.
Ours
- The leases. Five clinics, fitted out and equipped. You never sign for a unit or pay for a renovation.
- The staff. We hire, train, pay and cover the front desk. You never recruit, train or lose an associate again.
- The marketing. The website, the search work and program pages built procedure by procedure. You never boost a post or chase a review.
- The company’s admin. Rent, payroll, the company’s accounts and taxes, Corppass, booking software, payment, the card terminal.
- The insurance. Group professional indemnity and public liability, carried by us.
- The front door. Enquiries come in on one WhatsApp line, and the desk handles booking, reminders and payment.
- Your time off. Your patients’ next reviews are dated before you go. The doors stay open while you’re away.
- The method. The Phoenix Recovery Protocol: four stages, written criteria to move between them, outcome measures at intake and discharge.
- The bench. Principal-grade hand therapists and physiotherapists two rooms away, to talk a stalled case through on a Tuesday, not once a year at a conference.
How you’re paid
Six figures, without a lease, a Corppass login, company taxes, or an associate to train and then lose.
You’re paid a share of every appointment you deliver. Every appointment at Phoenix is 45 minutes at $230, nett, and nothing comes out of your share for rent, salaries, software, marketing or card fees. Everyone is on the same written terms. No private deals.
Our highest-earning therapist makes $250,000 a year. That’s the top of the range today, at today’s fees and with the marketing we run today.
Transition years, if you bring a practice with you. Close a practice you ran to join us, and your first two years are transition years. Join from a private clinic with your own patients and referring doctors, and your first year is. Either way you’re paid a higher share while you move across, then you’re on the same terms as everyone else. Patients and doctors follow you by their own choice, and any non-solicitation clause you’re under still applies.
On a contract for service there’s no employer CPF and no paid leave. You file your own income tax as a self-employed person and make your own MediSave contributions. We’d rather you hear that here than at the coffee.
The exact shares are for the coffee, not the website. Bring your numbers: if you run a clinic, the real rate you worked out above; if you work in one, what you’re paid per appointment now. I’ll put ours next to yours.
If you run your own practice
You close the clinic. You keep the practice.
Joining Phoenix means winding your clinic down. We don’t buy clinics and we don’t take on leases. We take on therapists, and then we help you rebuild the practice you wanted when you first signed that lease, without the lease.
Your patients and your doctors can come with you. Patients choose where they’re treated, and the ones who choose to follow you are welcome. A referral that names you still comes to you.
Your lease, your company and your staff are yours to wind down on your own timeline. We plan the move with you, so no patient falls into the gap between their last appointment at your place and their next one at ours.
Progression
What our patients say
Google reviews from our clinics in Singapore.
No appraisals. No politics. Four steps.
No annual appraisal where you justify your existence. No promotion for whoever plays politics best. Four steps. When you’re ready, you move.
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Step 1 · Your caseload
You join with the patients and doctors you already have, or you build them here. Patients who come through our front door are matched to you by clinic and by their injury against your declared interest. The rooms, the staff and the billing are ours from day one. Your job is the treatment.
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Step 2 · Your name on the work
Your profile carries your credentials and case counts. You write, with our help, the articles in your interest. You become the named therapist on the program pages for your procedures. Search starts sending patients to you by name.
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Step 3 · Your program
You author a procedure program: the stage criteria, the outcome measures, the “is this normal?” and red-flag lists. The next procedures need an author, and the surgeon reports for them carry that author’s name.
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Step 4 · Your clinic, or your discipline
Lead one of the clinics, or lead hand therapy or physiotherapy across the group: mentoring, clinical sign-off, and hiring the next person who reads this page. If you’ve run your own clinic, you already know how. This time the lease isn’t in your name.
Where this goes
A Tuesday, three years from now.
- A patient walks into Tanjong Pagar holding a printout of a program page with your face on it. She found it by typing the name of her surgery.
- A surgeon you’ve never had coffee with sends you a referral, because his last patient’s week-six report arrived on time with your name at the bottom.
- At lunch, a hand therapist two rooms down looks at your stalled case and says the thing you’d been missing.
- Your old lease ended in March. You didn’t renew it, and you haven’t thought about it since.
- The receptionist resigned last month. You found out from her replacement, on her first morning.
- You took two weeks off in June. Nobody closed the doors, and you didn’t open the bank app once.
- You left at six. Nobody needed you to answer WhatsApp.
None of that is a promise. It’s what we’re building, and every piece of it needs a clinician’s name on it.
Being direct
Who this is not for.
- Owners who enjoy running the business. If you do, keep it. This page is for the ones who don’t
- Owners who want to keep their clinic open alongside. Joining means closing it
- Therapists who want a fixed salary whatever the diary looks like
- Generalists. We hire into declared orthopedic, sports, musculoskeletal and hand interests only
- Anyone who enjoys workplace drama or office politics
- People looking for a stepping stone. We’re building for decades and want people who are too
- Anyone planning to take patients they are contractually bound not to take
Openings
Hand therapists first. Orthopedic, sports and musculoskeletal physiotherapists next.
Hand therapy hours are what we run out of first, so hand therapists are the first conversation. Physiotherapists with an orthopedic, sports or post-surgical interest are the second.
Bring a private caseload and referring doctors if you have them. If you’re still building yours, you’re welcome too.
We’ll find the clinic that suits you and your doctors. Location is the last question, not the first.
Questions
What therapists ask before the coffee.
I already run my own clinic. Why would I give it up?
You don’t give up the practice. You give up the lease, the payroll and the marketing. If you enjoy running the business, keep it, and I’ll happily tell you what we got wrong so you don’t repeat it. If the business is what’s wearing you down, this is the trade.
Can I keep my own clinic running alongside?
No. You close it and join. Running both means paying for a clinic you’re no longer in, and splitting your doctors between two front doors.
Will Phoenix buy my clinic or take over my lease?
No. We don’t buy clinics and we don’t take on leases. You wind yours down on your timeline, and we plan the patient handover with you.
Do I pay anything to join?
No. There’s no fee to join.
What’s the share?
Everyone is on the same written terms. If you bring a practice with you, by closing your own clinic or by joining from a private clinic with your own patients and referring doctors, you start on a higher transition share. The exact numbers are for the coffee. Bring yours and I’ll put ours next to them.
Is this my own business, or a job?
Your own. You’re engaged on a contract for service: you set your days, you’re paid a share of every appointment, and Phoenix carries the clinic. You file your own income tax as a self-employed person and make your own MediSave contributions. There’s no employer CPF and no paid leave.
Am I insured?
Yes. Phoenix carries group professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
Why not just open my own clinic?
If you want to run a business, you should, and I’ll tell you what we got wrong so you don’t. If what you want is your own caseload, your own doctors and your evenings back, you don’t need a lease in your name to have them.
Will my referring doctors keep sending patients to me?
Yes. A referral that names you comes to you. Referrals that don’t name a therapist are matched by clinic and by the patient’s injury to the therapist whose declared interest fits, so a strong declared interest brings you those too. You write the reports at weeks 2, 6 and 12, and they go back under your name.
Can I bring my existing patients?
Patients choose where they’re treated. If they choose to follow you, they’re welcome. If you’re under a non-solicitation clause with a current or past employer, you honor it, and we’ll ask to see it before you start.
I don’t have a private caseload yet. Can I still apply?
Yes. Patients who come through our front door are matched to your declared interest, and the program pages help you build your own doctors over time.
Can I work part time?
Yes. You choose your days. Your income follows the appointments you deliver, so fewer days means less income.
Will I have to do marketing?
No selling, no cold calls, no posting. We’ll ask for your declared interest, your case counts and photos for your profile, and for your review of the content in your interest.
What is the Phoenix Recovery Protocol?
The method every Phoenix program runs on: four stages, written criteria to move between them, and outcome measures at intake and discharge. Read it on the Protocol page, and see the programs built on it on the programs page.
Who will I be working with?
Meet the clinicians on the team page. Every one of them treats one to one, in a declared clinical interest.
One coffee
Bring your numbers. Not your CV.
If you run a clinic: last year’s takings, your rent and your renewal date. If you work in one: patients a week and where they come from. I’ll put them against our model in an hour and tell you honestly what your week would look like here.
If it fits, we’ll both know. If it doesn’t, you’ve spent an hour and had a coffee.
Both go to my WhatsApp, 8800 1830.