Behavioral Health Jobs

MentalHealthRecruiters.com represents permanent, locum, and telehealth behavioral health openings nationwide. Our job board reflects active searches for psychiatrists, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and behavioral health executives across hospital systems, community mental health centers, telepsychiatry platforms, addiction treatment programs, and private group practices.

Because much of our work is direct-search and confidential, many positions never appear on public job boards. The fastest way to see openings that match your background is to register a confidential profile so a behavioral health recruiter can match you to relevant searches as they open.

Browse Jobs by Provider Type

  • Psychiatrist Jobs — general adult, child and adolescent, addiction, geriatric, forensic, inpatient, outpatient, consult-liaison, and telepsychiatry openings.
  • PMHNP Jobs — the highest-volume category we work, including hospital-employed, community mental health, integrated primary care, and fully remote telehealth roles.
  • Psychologist Jobs — clinical, counseling, neuropsychology, pediatric, and health psychology positions.
  • LCSW and LMFT Jobs — outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient programs, integrated behavioral health, and school-based mental health roles.
  • Behavioral Health Executive Jobs — medical directors, chief behavioral health officers, VPs of behavioral health services, and program directors.

Browse Jobs by Employment Type

  • Permanent / Employed — full-time W-2 positions with hospital systems, group practices, and community mental health organizations.
  • Locum Tenens — short and long-term coverage assignments, often with travel and lodging covered.
  • Telehealth / Remote — fully virtual psychiatry and PMHNP roles, including roles with multistate caseloads.
  • Partnership Track — private practice associate roles with a defined path to ownership or partnership.
  • Locum-to-Permanent — engagements that begin as locum coverage and convert to permanent employment.

Browse Jobs by Region

We recruit across all 50 states. High-demand regions for behavioral health placements currently include the Mountain West (Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming), the Southeast (Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee), the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon), the Mid-Atlantic, the Texas/Oklahoma corridor, and rural HPSA-designated counties throughout the Midwest. Telehealth roles are typically open to candidates in any state where the clinician holds an active license.

How to Apply

  1. Submit a confidential profile or current CV through our contact form, or call 1-888-812-3452.
  2. A behavioral health recruiter will contact you within one to two business days to discuss your background, licensure, geographic preferences, and ideal practice setting.
  3. We will present you only to opportunities that match your criteria, with your written permission.
  4. We coordinate interviews, manage offer negotiation, and support credentialing through your start date.

What to Expect From a Behavioral Health Job Search

Searching for a new psychiatry or behavioral health role is materially different from a general medical job hunt. Compensation structures vary widely between RVU-based hospital employment, salaried community mental health roles, equity-track private practice partnerships, hourly telehealth contracts, and per-diem locum assignments. Schedule expectations differ just as much, from traditional Monday-through-Friday outpatient clinics to night-and-weekend inpatient consult call.

A good behavioral health recruiter saves you weeks of trial and error by translating each opportunity into the metrics that actually matter for your specialty: caseload composition, panel size, expected note-completion time, supervision responsibilities, telehealth percentage, and call burden. We give you straight comparisons so you can evaluate offers on a level playing field.

Compensation Benchmarks We Track

Our recruiters maintain current benchmarks across psychiatry subspecialties, PMHNP markets, psychologist roles, and licensed therapist roles. We pull from MGMA, AMGA, and SullivanCotter survey data and validate it against the offers our employer clients are actually putting in writing. When you ask whether a number is competitive, you get a real answer based on this quarter’s data, not a generic range from a survey published two years ago.

Telehealth, Locum, and Hybrid Options

Telehealth psychiatry and PMHNP work continues to grow as a share of total behavioral health hiring. We maintain strong relationships with national telepsychiatry vendors, hospital outpatient telehealth programs, and direct-to-consumer mental health platforms. If you hold multistate licensure or are willing to pursue compact licensure, your options expand significantly. Locum tenens and locum-to-permanent assignments are also widely available, often with travel and lodging covered by the employer.

For Residents, Fellows, and New Graduates

We work extensively with PGY-4 psychiatry residents, child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, addiction psychiatry fellows, and new PMHNP graduates. Many of our employer partners have established programs for first-year attendings, including loan repayment, sign-on bonuses, mentorship, and HPSA waiver support for J-1 visa candidates. The earlier in your final year you start the conversation, the wider the range of opportunities you can evaluate. There is no fee to candidates and no obligation to accept any role we present.

Why Candidates Choose to Work With Us

Behavioral health clinicians have plenty of options when it comes to job search resources, from major job boards to LinkedIn to direct outreach by hospital recruiters. Candidates choose to work with MentalHealthRecruiters.com because the conversation moves faster, the opportunities are more carefully matched, and the support is more substantive. Our recruiters answer texts and emails the same day, can usually arrange a hiring manager conversation within 48 hours, and provide written summaries of every opportunity so candidates can compare offers side by side. We also coach on CV presentation, interview preparation, and offer negotiation at no cost to the candidate. None of these services come with any obligation to accept a role we present, and candidates pay nothing under any circumstances.

Just as importantly, our team understands the lifecycle of a behavioral health career. The role that fits a third-year attending coming off residency is rarely the same role that fits a mid-career psychiatrist looking to scale back inpatient call, and neither matches what a senior behavioral health executive needs in a final-decade leadership role. We work with clinicians at every stage and tailor the conversation accordingly.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often are new behavioral health jobs posted?

We add new psychiatrist, PMHNP, psychologist, and LCSW openings every week as employer clients release them. Many positions are filled before they are publicly listed, so candidates registered with us are typically notified first.

Do I have to pay to apply for a job?

No. Candidates never pay any fee to apply, interview, or be placed. All recruiting fees are paid by the hiring employer.

Are telehealth psychiatry and PMHNP jobs available?

Yes. Telehealth represents one of the largest categories of openings we work, especially for PMHNPs and child/adolescent psychiatrists. Many telehealth roles offer fully remote schedules and multistate caseloads.

Can I be considered confidentially while currently employed?

Absolutely. Confidential candidacy is the default for working psychiatrists, PMHNPs, and behavioral health executives. We never share your information with an employer without explicit permission.

Do you place new graduates and J-1 visa candidates?

Yes. We work with PGY-4 psychiatry residents, fellowship graduates, new PMHNP graduates, and J-1 visa candidates seeking H-1B sponsorship or HPSA waiver positions.

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