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Therapist - Inpatient Behavioral Health

CounselorFull-Time

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Therapist - Inpatient Behavioral Health

Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, or Professional Counseling required.

We are seeking like-minded Behavioral Health Therapists to join our growing team!

Quail Run Hospital is a 102-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in Phoenix, Arizona. Quail Run features individual units for adolescents, adults, and seniors, and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Quail Run Behavioral Health.

Benefits Include

  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Competitive Compensation and Generous Paid Time Off
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
  • Tuition savings to continue your education with Chamberlain University

Summary

The Therapist is responsible for planning and implementing services for assigned program, which involves defining, and implementing treatment goals as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and providing continuous patient care, observation, interaction, and role modeling to patients.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, or Professional Counseling required.
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in mental health.
  • Minimum Master’s Level Licensure from Arizona Board of Behavioral Health in area of specialty preferred.
  • Level 1 Arizona Fingerprint Clearance card or be able to obtain within 30 days of hire.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment PlanningBehavioral Health TherapyInterdisciplinary CollaborationCrisis InterventionPatient ObservationClinical Counseling

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Therapist - Inpatient Behavioral Health at UHS a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,885 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 20% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Arizona is 100.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Arizona clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Counselor Jobs

46 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution46 jobs · 38 employers

16
<$80k
9
$80k-100k
7
$100k-120k
14
$120k-140k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks35 jobs

401k / retirement match
89% this job
CME allowance
54%
Sign-on bonus
31%
Loan repayment
23%
Relocation assistance
3%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.3this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,885 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Phoenix

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$406k
Typical market rent
$1,574/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.3
State income tax
Up to 2.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About UHS

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501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive Compensation
Generous Paid Time Off
Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries
Tuition savings to continue your education with Chamberlain University