Adolescent Suicide & Self-Harm Specialist

What you'll do

You review adolescent case material and write structured risk assessments for suicide and self-harm presentations. Each one applies validated instruments (C-SSRS is named) alongside your own risk formulation, and has to separate self-harm from suicidal ideation from intent, then characterise acuity precisely rather than in general terms.

From that you recommend a response: escalation pathway, safety planning (the ad names Stanley-Brown), means-restriction strategy. You also identify comorbidities, safeguarding concerns and contextual factors, and benchmark your judgments against established guidelines and other clinicians' assessments so the set stays internally consistent.

The written guidance is the deliverable, and the ad is specific about who has to be able to act on it: the models being trained are intended to support non-specialist users in real-world scenarios. Write for someone without your training.

What you need

• Three to five or more years post-qualification, with direct adolescent clinical contact focused on suicide and self-harm risk
• Specialist credentials in child or adolescent psychiatry or psychology, with demonstrated expertise in suicide and self-harm intervention
• An active clinical licence or registration in good standing, and an active adolescent caseload within the past two years
• Advanced proficiency with suicide and self-harm risk assessment tools: C-SSRS, safety planning protocols
• Familiarity with evidence-based adolescent interventions such as DBT-A and trauma-informed approaches
• Exceptional written English: native, or IELTS 7.5+ with 7.0+ writing, TOEFL 100+, Cambridge C1–C2, or equivalent

These are filed under "preferred qualifications", but the licence and the recent caseload are not the kind of thing a project like this waives.

Nice to have

• Formal DBT-A or CBT training
• Crisis or inpatient experience
• Published contributions to suicidology research or to clinical guidelines

What it pays

$45–95/hour. The band is $50 wide with no published basis for placement within it, and the ad does not say how many assessments a task comprises or how long one is expected to take.

It carries no compensation-structure section at all, so whether the hourly figure is time-based or a per-task equivalent is not answered anywhere on the page. Ask before you accept.

Worth knowing

Good:

• $45–95/hour published up front for remote, asynchronous clinical reasoning with no caseload of your own attached
• Your existing specialist credentials are the whole qualification; no AI background is asked for
• The work is squarely within scope of practice (formulation, acuity, escalation, safety planning) rather than adjacent to it
• Consistency benchmarking against peers and published guidelines is built into the brief, which is rare in this market

Less good:

• Three openings on a small specialist panel, so most applicants will not be placed
• No compensation structure is stated anywhere on the listing
• An active licence and a caseload within the past two years rule out anyone recently out of clinical practice
• Contractor engagement: no benefits, no notice period, your own tax to manage
• The stated purpose is a tool that helps non-specialists judge adolescent suicide risk. Decide deliberately whether you want to contribute to that; neither the customer nor the deployment is named

About this listing

Posted by micro1 on its own jobs portal, confirmed open on 7 September 2026. The $45–95/hour band, the scope of work and every qualification above are its own published text for this listing.

No country restriction is named on the ad itself, so eligibility is left open. We could not verify the pay structure or the per-task rate; neither is stated, and the customer and end product are not named. Screening and payment run at the platform level. See micro1.