Date Opened: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 12:00 AM

Close Date: Sunday, March 08, 2026 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department

Salary: $68,455.00 - $85,569.00 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

The Behavioral Health Specialist / Employee Wellness Clinician serves as a licensed mental health professional within the CMPD Office of Employee Wellness, providing confidential consultation, education, and organizational wellness support to sworn and civilian employees. This role focuses on early intervention, prevention, resource navigation, and system-level wellness integration, rather than ongoing therapy or clinical treatment. The clinician works collaboratively with peers, chaplains, supervisors, command staff, and external partners to enhance employee well-being, reduce stigma, and support a healthy and sustainable workforce.

This is a temporary grant-funded position that is currently financed through 9/30/2027.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of employee wellness initiatives and prevention-focused programming.
• Provides brief, solution-focused wellness consultations to sworn and civilian employees seeking support for occupational stress, personal concerns, or resource navigation.
• Assists in facilitating critical incident group debriefings with all involved personnel (sworn and civilian), as appropriate.
• Provides consultation and training support to peer support members and chaplains in coordination with the Office of Employee Wellness.
• Develops and delivers psychoeducational trainings and briefings related to wellness, stress management, suicide prevention, and supportive leadership practices.
• Works closely with other clinicians within the Office of Employee Wellness to ensure consistency, ethical practice, and program alignment.
• Serves as the primary clinician responsible for coordinating, scheduling, and hosting Family Academy sessions, including panel discussions, educational presentations, and facilitated conversations.
• Executes special projects for the Chief of Police.
• Remains current on best practices, research, and emerging trends related to employee wellness and public safety behavioral health.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in psychology or related human service field
• Active, unrestricted clinical license in North Carolina (LCMHC, LMFT, or LCSW)
• Three (3) years of experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of occupational stress, trauma exposure, and wellness needs in public safety environments.
• Ability to provide brief, consultative, and solution-oriented support without engaging in ongoing therapy.
• Knowledge of ethical standards, confidentiality requirements, and scope-of-practice considerations for licensed clinicians.
• Skills in program development, training delivery, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Applicable federal, state and local laws, codes, regulations (based on assignment).
• Customer service principles.
• Modern office technology.
• High levels of oral and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate ideas, concepts, findings, results as well as interpretations and evaluations of data.
• Outstanding multi-tasking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to deal tactfully, courteously, and effectively with citizens, officers, co-workers, and other personnel from a broad range of governmental and public safety organizations
• Demonstrate and maintain good judgment
• Ability to respond independently and quickly
• Providing consultation and serving as a department liaison and subject matter expert.
• Preparing and delivering training curriculum and related presentations.
• Researching industry trends, solutions and best practices.
• Reading, analyzing, evaluating, interpreting and summarizing written materials and statistical data.
• Maintaining confidential assessment and treatment files and records.
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards (based on assignment).
• Providing customer service.
• Utilizing a computer and relevant software applications.
• Utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interactions with coworkers, supervisors, the general public and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

ADA and Other Requirements:

Positions in this class typically require grasping, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

Physical Requirements:

• Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for sitting, standing, climbing, or walking for extended periods of time
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying; some crouching, stooping, squatting, crawling, reaching, pushing, and pulling when performing tasks
• Ability to see, hear, and communicate information effectively
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Sensory Requirements:

• Concentrated and attentive use of one or more senses (visual, audio, and other sensory modalities) for proofreading, data entry, tabulating data.
• Ability to operate in an environment with frequent interruptions from people and or noises, which in return could result in some level of stress, fatigue, or strain.
• Comprehend written information in work-related documents.
• Ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech.

Working Conditions:

Work is routinely performed in an indoor, office environment. Maybe required to be on call and/or work outside of normal business hours.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate’s written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process, candidates may be asked to take a skills test, and/or participate in other assessments.

The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress, appearance, or behavior.

Our culture is to serve the community honorably.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

You are welcome to visit the City of Charlotte Human Resources Department lobby, where self-service application kiosks are available. They are located in our office at 700 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28202. We are open Monday through Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST), excluding official City holidays.

For questions about your application or the hiring process, please email [email protected]

The City of Charlotte is committed to making our services and programs accessible to all. Upon request, auxiliary aids, written materials in alternate formats, language access, and other reasonable accommodations or modifications will be provided. To make a request, please fill out the Innovation & Technology ADA request form or call 704.336.4120.

BENEFITS

The City of Charlotte provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees.

Click here to learn more about the City of Charlotte’s benefits.

The City of Charlotte is a drug and alcohol-free workplace.