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Clive, Iowa

Therapist, Outpatient

Counselor Top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling)Full-Time

Compensation

Pay not disclosed

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
Not specified
Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

Licensed Outpatient Therapist Opportunity -

Clive Behavioral Health is a 100-inpatient bed stand-alone mental health hospital. We provide compassionate inpatient and outpatient care for individuals who struggle with a behavioral health disorder or co-occurring disorders.

Our care providers work closely with patients and their loved ones to help achieve their personal treatment goals. We provide a secure, healing environment for all our patients, staff and visitors.

We also offer intensive outpatient programming (IOP) for adolescents aged 13 to 17 and a substance use disorder intensive outpatient program for adults called First Step Recovery. Our goal with all of our programs is to help people reach their highest quality of life.

Website: https://clivebehavioral.com/

Responsibilities

  • Complete psychosocial assessments
  • Provide group therapy or co-lead groups
  • Provide individual/family therapy sessions and crisis intervention

Augment Inpatient Services as Needed

Ensure timely and accurate delivery of clinical information to HMO/Insurance providers (PHP/IOP specific) in accordance with departmental or facility policy

Provide social work consultations to physicians, nurses, other hospital staff members, patients, patient’s relatives and coordinate with community agencies as appropriate

  • Provide case management services to patients in PHP/IOP
  • Provide discharge planning services to PHP/IOP patients as needed.

Benefits

  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Comprehensive training & orientation
  • Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Tuition savings to continue your nursing education with Chamberlain University
  • Psychiatric Nurse Residency Transition-to-Practice Orientation (Could earn 20 CEUs)
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ locations!
  • Diverse programming to expand your experience and energize you career
  • HealthStream online learning catalogue with plenty of free CEU courses
  • SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance.

During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies.

Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com

Qualifications

Requirements

Education: Master's Degree from an accredited college or university, in Social Work or a clinical related mental health field.

License: Must possess licensure in the State of Iowa as a t-LMHC, LMHC, LMSW or LISW.

Experience: Requires a minimum of one (1) year experience in a psychiatric health care facility, outpatient mental health center, FQHC or other equivalent mental health setting with direct experience in family and group therapies, crisis intervention, and treatment skills; must have strong clinical assessment skills. Outpatient experience highly preferred. Combination of education, licensure and experience and/or student internship hours may be considered.

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.

Notice

At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skillset and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience.

During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email.

The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, let us know by contacting us at: https://uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852-3449.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Individual therapySocial work consultationTreatment planningBehavioral health care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Therapist, Outpatient 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 7,933 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 24% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Iowa is 87.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.8% of Iowa clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution29 jobs · 27 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks29 jobs · 27 employers

401k / retirement match
83% this job
CME allowance
55% this job
Sign-on bonus
41%
Loan repayment
28% this job
PSLF eligible
14%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 7.2
Higher than about 8 in 10 of 7,933 Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10. Shaded area = share of comparable listings scoring below this one.

Living in Clive

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$351k
Typical market rent
$1,635/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
91.7
State income tax
Up to 6%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA 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

Challenging and rewarding work environment
Comprehensive training & orientation
Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
Tuition savings to continue your nursing education with Chamberlain University
Psychiatric Nurse Residency Transition-to-Practice Orientation (Could earn 20 CEUs)
Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ locations!