Staff Psychologist

About the role

Position Overview The Harris County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is hiring a licensed psychologist to join Behavioral Health Services (BHS), an established, in-house team practicing the full scope of Police & Public Safety Psychology. Operating under the Personnel Support Division, BHS supports the emotional health, resilience, and career longevity of the deputies, detention officers, telecommunicators, and civilian staff of the largest sheriff's office in Texas and the third largest in the United States — and the families who stand behind them. The Staff Psychologist practices across the four domains of the specialty: assessment (including pre-employment and specialty-unit evaluations), intervention (individual, couples, and family therapy, and critical incident response), operational consultation to command staff and specialty units, and organizational consultation on wellness programming, training, and applied program evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct pre-employment psychological evaluations of candidates for sworn and designated civilian positions in accordance with TCOLE requirements, ADA/EEOC guidance, and applicable professional standards (IACP and APA guidelines).
• Conduct post-critical-incident visits to address immediate reactions, provide education on common stress and trauma responses, and identify appropriate follow-up support.
• Provide voluntary, confidential individual, couples, and family therapy for HCSO employees, retirees, eligible family members, and other authorized recipients.
• Conduct mandatory and voluntary wellness visits for personnel in designated high-exposure assignments.
• Provide office-based brief crisis stabilization and clinical consultation; CIRT serves as the primary field response for mental health emergencies.
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