POSITION SUMMARY:

Mobile Crisis Supervisor will provide education, training, scheduling, and ensure 24-hour coverage for the Mobile Crisis Team. Ensuring the Mobile Crisis team will work with contracted hospitals when they identify a person in a psychiatric crisis that will require additional evaluation for psychiatric services. Ensuring the purpose of providing a professional assessment and triage to assist with further recommendation of services to the most appropriate, least restrictive treatment environment. Each patient and/or family contacting or referred to The Carle Emergency Department for psychiatric services shall be assessed by a Mobile Crisis Specialist. A licensed psychiatrist or other physician oversees triage and referral decisions.

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