Mental Health Professional – Co-Responder Program

Job overview

The Mental Health Professional – Co-Responder Program role is onsite in Jacksonville, FL, working with a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office law-enforcement partner. Compensation is not specified. Mental Health Resource Center provides community mental and behavioral health services, including emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care. The professional responds to mental-health and substance-use crises with law enforcement, providing de-escalation, assessment, short-term intervention, safety planning, and linkage to appropriate community services. The role aims to support least-restrictive community-based dispositions and reduce unnecessary hospital or emergency-department use.

What you'll do

• Assist law enforcement when encountering individuals suspected of mental illness or substance-use disorders
• provide short-term interventions and stabilize immediate situations
• assess risk and safety concerns
• develop safety and collaborative crisis plans
• monitor for trauma, abuse, neglect, or abandonment and use reporting mechanisms
• coordinate services and interview natural supports
• help prevent unnecessary hospitalization or emergency-department use
• involve medical personnel when needed
• link individuals to mental-health, substance-use, and medical providers
• collaborate with law enforcement and community agencies
• conduct follow-up visits with high-risk individuals
• coordinate psychiatric evaluation and medication management.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

mental health professional

co-responder program

jacksonville fl

mental health resource center

crisis de-escalation

crisis assessment

safety planning

law enforcement partnership

community-based services

crisis response experience

master's degree required

clinical supervision assistance

behavioral health

service coordination

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• life and disability insurance
• 403(b)
• PTO
• paid holidays
• flexible spending account
• employee assistance program
• clinical supervision-hour assistance for eligible master’s-level registered interns in full-time positions.

Why this role

Requires a master’s degree in Human Services, Social Work, or a related field, experience with severe and persistent mental illness, and two years of crisis-response experience. Florida registered intern status or a Florida LMHC, LCSW, or LMFT license is preferred. Clinical supervision-hour assistance is available to eligible master’s-level registered interns in full-time positions.

About the employer

Mental Health Resource Center is hiring for this role. Industry: Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers. Sector: 62.