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Armor Health
Columbia, South Carolina

Day Licensed Behavioral Health Professional

Behavioral HealthNo nightsFull-Time

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Job Description

Why Choose Us?

Join an organization with excellent teamwork and leadership support. Provide patient care in a safe environment and make a difference in someone's life! Access competitive pay, generous education and development support and an extensive benefits package.

You'll Be Eligible for the Following

  • On Demand Payment (Make any day pay day)
  • Retirement plans
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Employer-Paid Disability and Life coverage
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Generous Paid Time Off

Health Savings Account

At Armor Health, we are raising the standard of care to impact the lives of those we serve by partnering with exceptional correctional organizations to improve health care outcomes. We provide support for patients and foster the wellness and wellbeing of the lives entrusted by our care.

Armor is laser-focused on providing the best-in-class interventions to ensure optimal outcomes.

Through our core values, embrace change, take ownership, attention to detail, sense of urgency, results oriented, and collaborative environment we are a dynamic team that is setting the bar and revolutionizing correctional healthcare.

Great outcomes start with great people and Armor has an exciting opportunity for a Licensed Behavioral Health Professional to join our team at Richland Prison in Columbia, South Carolina.

Responsibilities

Provide a wide range of psychosocial assessments and preliminary diagnostic impression, counseling therapy, crisis intervention, and/or case management services to patients in a correctional facility as part of an established multidisciplinary treatment team and behavioral health program

Collect supporting information about patients through interview, case history, psychological tests, and/or observational techniques

Evaluate data to identify causes of problems and determine proper therapeutic approach or referral to other specialists

  • Provide crisis management counseling, and/or short term therapy to patients as appropriate
  • Prepare treatment and follow-up care programs
  • Provide therapeutic crisis intervention and emergency services as required
  • Demonstrate knowledge of DSM-5 criteria and appropriate intervention for each entity

Consult with other behavioral health practitioners and related staff, as appropriate, in the performance of therapeutic and/or casework

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Social Work or related field
  • Current state Mental Health Professional license
  • Current CPR certification
  • Ability to pass pre-employment Level 2 clearance to include background check and drug screen

Armor Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified employees and applicants. We comply with all applicable federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, including but not limited to those that prohibit discrimination based on color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, immigration status, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran's status, and citizenship.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Psychological testingTreatment planning

Behavioral Health Career Context

The cost-of-living index for South Carolina is 93.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.6% of South Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Behavioral Health pay on WeekdayDoc is up 22.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

What does the Behavioral Health market look like in South Carolina?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedBehavioral Health median $75k (middle half $65k–$86k)320 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingSouth Carolina index 93.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Behavioral Health listings in South Carolina16 active788 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Behavioral Health pay trend+22.2% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-life snapshot

5.1/ 10
Listing-based score
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About Armor Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Miami, FL
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

On Demand Payment
Retirement plans
Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
Employer-Paid Disability and Life coverage
Tuition Reimbursement
Generous Paid Time Off
Health Savings Account

Living in Columbia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$218k
Typical market rent
$1,500/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.7
State income tax
Up to 6.5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Columbia, SC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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