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Phoenix, Arizona

Recreation / Music Therapist - PRN

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Quail Run Hospital is a 115-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. Website: jobs.uhsinc.com

Job Description

The Recreation Therapist is responsible for planning and implementing therapeutic recreation, music, and/or art groups for assigned program, which involves program planning, documentation, assessments, 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.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Effectively plan and implement recreation/music therapy for assigned units. Participate in Holiday Programming planning and facilitation all treatment programs.

Utilize advanced knowledge of counseling and therapeutic concepts and methods for determining therapeutic services for psychiatric and chemically dependent patients. Demonstrate knowledge of group dynamics as well as therapy and practice of group processing.

Ensure timely documentation of master treatment plan interventions and ensure interventions are patient centered. Provides assessment in psychosocial/leisure and recreational skills development/deficiency. Contribute to treatment plan with specific goals and interventions to be achieved in therapeutic activities.

Maintain current documentation in daily progress notes, including name of therapeutic group/intervention, and patient’s progress towards goal. Provide pertinent feedback to the interdisciplinary treatment team regarding patient response to therapy, treatment interventions, and therapeutic objectives, as appropriate and necessary.

Benefit Highlights

  • 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!

About Universal Health Services

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services.

Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500® corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities.

Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. uhs.com.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Music, or Recreation Therapy, or related therapeutic discipline required.

Certification or licensure by state and/or national governing body in of the following areas: Recreation, Music Therapy or Expressive Arts (CTRS, MT-BC or REAT) Required.

One year of related experience, with knowledge of psychiatric patient care techniques with understanding of mental illness, preferred.

Handle With Care and Basic Life Support (BLS) for Providers required. Training provided at the facility.

Level 1 Arizona Fingerprint Clearance card or be able to obtain within 30 days of hire.

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Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Key Skills

Treatment planningPatient assessmentInterdisciplinary collaborationCounseling conceptsMental health supportPatient observation

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 38% have no call, 60% 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).

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
97% this job
CME allowance
39%
Sign-on bonus
24%
Loan repayment
18%
PSLF eligible
15%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,995 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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Benefits & Perks

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