Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatrist | Tucson, Arizona | Employed W-2 + Benefits | No Call Required
Listed compensation
salary range: $330K–$350K
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Job Description
- Opportunity Details
- Position Title: Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatrist
- Location: Tucson, AZ
Palo Verde Behavioral Health has a longstanding reputation for stability in mental health and substance-use treatment, serving patients in and around Tucson since 1960. We offer individualized, inpatient and intensive outpatient treatment programs for adults and adolescents.
Position Details
- Patient population: Inpatient adolescent care for patients ages 12–17.
- Care Setting: Mostly inpatient work with additional adolescent PHP/IOP available (optional).
- Manageable Caseload: Average of 15 total patient encounters per day.
- Position Type: Full-time Employed W-2 with benefits or 1099 Independent Contractor available.
- Schedule: Monday–Friday, days only.
- Call: No weekday call required.
- Weekends: Average 1:5 weekend rounding split amongst the team.
Benefits and Compensation
- Competitive base salary range: $330,000-$350,000.
- Sign-On Bonus & Relocation Assistance available.
Bonus: Additional earnings through potential via Productivity Bonus and additional weekend coverage and evening call.
Robust Benefit Package: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k w/ Company Match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, ST/LT Disability, and more.
- Paid-Time Off: 26 days per year
- CME Package: 5 paid CME days per year + reimbursement for related expenses.
- Licenses & Dues reimbursement
Requirements
- MD/DO degree from an accredited program required.
- Board certified or board eligible child & adolescent psychiatry required.
- Arizona medical license or the ability to obtain an Arizona medical license.
- Meets all credentialing criteria required by participating physicians
- Palo Verde Behavioral Health is owned and operated by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the nation's leading hospital management companies.
- To learn more, please contact the In-House Recruiter shown below.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
- Contact me to learn more about this exciting opportunity!
- Daniel Wilson
- Physician & APP Recruiter | Behavioral Health Division
Universal Health Services, Inc. | UHS of Delaware, Inc.
Direct: (615) 554-0073 Explore Opportunities: UHS Physician Careers
Key Responsibilities
The psychiatrist will provide inpatient care for adolescents aged 12-17, managing an average caseload of 15 patient encounters per day. Responsibilities include conducting evaluations and participating in a weekend rounding rotation.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatrist | Tucson, Arizona | Employed W-2 + Benefits | No Call Required at Palo Verde Behavioral Health a 8.8 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Psychiatry — ranked against 1,760 active Psychiatry listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no night shifts.
Psychiatry — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 60% are remote, 50% have no call, 66% require no weekends.
Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 11,644 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $62 per wRVU — implying roughly $722k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.
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- No call
- No nights
- On-site
- Includes weekends
Living in Tucson
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $322k≈ 1.0× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $1,425/mo≈ 5% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 22 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 96.9
- 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 · Tucson, AZ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.