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Mental Health Therapist II | 4S Psychiatric Care | Full-time | Days

CounselorNo weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

  • An Excellent Opportunity to Join a World Class System!
  • As part of the University of Florida, it is a hub for research and advanced medical training
  • It provides extensive specialized services, including cardiovascular services, and emergency care
  • Excellent opportunity for growth
  • Join us today!

Responsibilities

In a multidisciplinary format and under the direction of the Manager, the Mental Health Therapist II will perform patient assessments, treatment planning, psychotherapy, linking, and advocacy. Maintains licensure and provides clinical supervision to interns and license eligible staff. Serves as clinical resource to other staff.

Schedule: FTE: 1.0

  • Hours: 7:00am-4:00pm
  • Days: Monday-Friday
  • Location: Jacksonville, FL

Qualifications

Education

Required: Master's degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology, Social Work, or with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy.

Licensure/Certifications

Required: Active licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, Mental Health Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, or Psychologist

Training

Required: Crisis Prevention Institute training is required within ninety (90) days of date of hire or transfer, and annually thereafter, for the Psych Unit.

Experience

Required: 1-2 years post-masters experience providing evaluations and psychotherapy.

Necessary Skills

  • Ability to use a variety of psychotherapy techniques.
  • Ability to communicate and work well in an interdisciplinary environment.
  • Responds positively and flexibly to demands and deadlines.
  • Must be detail-oriented and posses strong oral and written communication and problem solving skills.

Knowledge of: bio-psychosocial and mental status evaluation techniques; suicide risk factors; psychiatric diagnosis; bases of human behavior; theory and practice of psychotherapy; crisis intervention techniques; ethical and legal responsibilities including but not limited to confidentiality and patient rights and requirements for continued licensure.

  • Age of Patients Served
  • Infants (< 1 year) Pediatric (1-12 years) Adolescent (13-17 years) Adult (18-64 years)

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Patient assessmentSuicide risk assessmentBio-psychosocial evaluationInterdisciplinary collaborationDocumentationEthical practice

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Mental Health Therapist II | 4S Psychiatric Care | Full-time | Days at UF Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Psychiatry (Counseling) — ranked against 57 active Psychiatry (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Psychiatry — Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 56% are remote, 30% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
89%
CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
26%
Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 6.0
Better work-life than 70% of Psychiatry (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 57 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends

Living in Jacksonville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$271k
Typical market rent
$1,601/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
99.5
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Jacksonville, FL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.