Adolescent Clinical Safety Specialist

What you will do

• Within your expertise, assess safeguarding/exploitation, substance use, suicide/self-harm or eating-disorder presentations; one or more relevant specialties is sufficient.
• For safeguarding cases, identify grooming/coercion, developmental and consent issues, protective actions and reporting/escalation needs.
• For substance-use cases, assess severity and care level using DSM-5/ASAM, distinguishing experimentation from disorder and flagging overdose or withdrawal risk.
• For suicide/self-harm cases, distinguish ideation, intent and acuity; explain safety planning, means restriction and contextual risk.
• For eating-disorder cases, evaluate presentation, medical stability and urgency using appropriate diagnostic/screening methods.
• Write guidance accessible to non-specialists and check judgments against clinical guidance and peer review.

Required background

• Ability to assess adolescent safety scenarios in at least one relevant clinical specialty and explain supported decisions.

Preferred background

• A relevant clinical specialty and active license/registration in good standing, with 3–5 years after qualification/certification and adolescent practice within the past two years.
• Safeguarding: child protection, forensic child/adolescent mental health or pediatric safeguarding experience; CSE/CSA, mandatory reporting and trauma-informed documentation; designated safeguarding/expert-witness or ACEs work is advantageous.
• Substance use: addiction or child/adolescent psychiatric/psychological expertise; CRAFFT, S2BI, DSM-5 and ASAM; familiarity with under-18 MOUD/MAT and withdrawal management; motivational interviewing, crisis care or youth-SUD publications are useful.
• Suicide/self-harm: child/adolescent psychiatry or psychology, C-SSRS, Stanley-Brown safety planning and evidence-based interventions such as DBT-A; CBT/DBT-A training, crisis/inpatient care or suicidology work is advantageous.
• Eating disorders: relevant psychiatric, psychological, adolescent or pediatric specialization; DSM-5, EDE-Q, SCOFF and MEED; FBT/CBT-E, medical stabilization or comorbidity expertise is useful.
• Research-standard English: native proficiency or IELTS 7.5 overall with writing 7.0+, TOEFL 100+, Cambridge C1–C2 or equivalent.

Availability

• Remote work; agree the assignment schedule before starting.

Pay and engagement

$48–$100/hr

Amounts are in USD. The applicable rate or fee and work requirements are agreed before you begin.