Child Psychologist | $95/hr Remote

About the role

This is a contract position offering $45-$95/hour, fully remote, with a commitment of 10-40 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Review complex adolescent cases to assess sexual safety and exploitation risks.
• Produce clear, defensible written safeguarding guidance suitable for non-specialists.
• Apply recognised risk-assessment and safeguarding frameworks to evaluate urgency and appropriate interventions.
• Identify indicators of grooming, coercion, and exploitation within nuanced case details.
• Recommend protective actions and escalation pathways, including when mandatory reporting is warranted.
• Utilise a trauma-informed lens, weighing developmental, capacity, and consent factors in each assessment.
• Benchmark your clinical judgments against peer standards and established protocols to ensure guidance accuracy and reliability.

Requirements

• Have strong relevant experience in child safeguarding, adolescent-protection, or relevant clinical roles.
• Specialty background in child protection, forensic child/adolescent psychiatry or psychology, or paediatric medicine with a safeguarding remit.
• Active clinical license or registration in good standing.
• Current or recent adolescent caseload or safeguarding practice.
• Demonstrated expertise in CSE/CSA risk assessment and mandatory-reporting requirements.
• Strong skills in trauma-informed practice and documentation.
• Exceptional written communication in research-grade English.