Job Description

Job Location: 1700 EDUCATION AVE - PUNTA GORDA, FL 33950
Position Type: Full TimeEducation
Level: 4 Year Degree
Salary Range: $19.33 - $23.23 Hourly

Travel Percentage: Road Warrior
Job Category: Nonprofit - Social ServicesMake an Impact Before Crisis Hits - Join Our Co-Responder Team
Sign On Bonus $2000
Are you a clinician who thrives in the field, values proactive care, and wants to make a real difference in your community? Join our team and work alongside CIT-trained law enforcement to support individuals and families before situations escalate into crisis.
This is not a traditional office role, this is meaningful, community-based work where you help bridge gaps in care, build trust, and connect people to the services they need to stay safe and stable in the community. This is a proactive, prevention focused position, your work directly reduces emergency interventions and improves long-term outcomes for the community.
What You'll Do
- Partner with CIT-trained officers to provide in-home and community-based screenings, crisis counseling, and early intervention.
- Identify individuals at risk and proactively engage them in treatment to prevent escalation.
- Support individuals and families navigating:
- - Mental health and substance use challenges
- - Family, parenting, and relationship concerns
- - Stress, financial hardship, aging-related issues, and more.
- Respond to referrals from law enforcement, schools, and providers, focusing on high-risk individuals with repeated emergency calls.
- Coordinate care with law enforcement, behavioral health providers, and community resources.
- Help ensure individuals don't "fall through the cracks" by maintaining ongoing engagement and follow-up.
- Deliver clinical screenings and services while representing the program in the community.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and sign-on bonus.
- Comprehensive Benefits:
- - Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- - Generous PTO + 11 paid holidays
- - 403(b) Retirement Plan with 9% employer contribution (for eligible staff).
- - Employer-funded Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Student Tuition and Loan Support
- - Tuition reimbursement
- - Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility
- - HRSA load repayment opportunities
- Professional Growth
- - Qualified Supervisor available for licensure
- - Career advancement opportunities. We invest in our people!

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in counseling or related field.
- Experience working with mental health and/or substance use disorders (adults and children).
- Crisis intervention experience preferred.
- Strong clinical assessment, communication, and engagement skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, community-based environment.
- Comfort managing high-stress situations with professionalism and sound judgment.
- Knowledge of local social service resources (or ability to quickly build it).
- Valid FL driver's license and safe driving record.
- Ability to pass Level II Background Screening and drug test.
- Ability to work flexible schedules, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and 12-hour shifts.
- Basic computer proficiency and strong documentation skills.
Apply today and be a part of a team that changes lives every day.
For more information regarding the Level II Background Screening click here: https://info.flclearinghouse.com