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Inpatient Therapist Per Diem

CounselorIncludes weekendsPer Diem

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Inpatient Therapist Per Diem Weekends Required

We are seeking like-minded Inpatient Program 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

Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!

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.
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in mental health.
  • 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

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment planningCrisis interventionPsychiatric care

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 32% have no call, 58% 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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Salary Distribution39 jobs · 34 employers

16
<$80k
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$80k-105k
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$105k-130k
5
$130k-155k
3
$155k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks34 jobs

401k / retirement match
85%
CME allowance
50%
Sign-on bonus
26%
Loan repayment
21%
PSLF eligible
18%

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$65-$75/hr
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,035 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

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.