Adolescent Suicide & Self-Harm Specialist

$45–95/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~15h/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Medical

micro1 is contracting child and adolescent clinicians to write structured suicide and self-harm risk assessments on adolescent case materials, then translate those formulations into guidance a non-specialist could act on. Work is remote and task-based, with observed rates of $45–95/hr and onboarding measured in days rather than weeks.

What the work actually looks like

You receive adolescent case materials — presentation, history, contextual detail — and produce a written risk assessment: what is self-harm without suicidal intent, what is ideation, what constitutes intent or acute risk, and how confident you are in that distinction and why. You then carry the formulation forward into a response: escalation threshold, safety planning along Stanley-Brown lines, means-restriction specifics, and the comorbidity and safeguarding factors that change the answer. A significant share of the work is cross-referencing your judgment against established guidelines and against other clinicians' assessments of the same case, and articulating where you diverge.

The end user of your writing is not a peer. These outputs train systems intended to support non-specialists, so guidance that reads as competent in a multidisciplinary team meeting may still fail here — hedged language, unexplained clinical shorthand, and recommendations that assume access to specialist services all get flagged. Clarity about the boundary between what a non-specialist can safely do and what must be escalated is the core of the job.

What the screen looks for

micro1 runs an AI-led interview before any human review. It probes verifiable specifics — where you trained, your registration, the age range and acuity of your recent caseload — and then presses on clinical depth: how you administer and interpret the C-SSRS, how you handle a disclosure that shifts mid-assessment, what you do when the adolescent's account and the parent's account conflict. Expect follow-ups that ask you to justify rather than restate. Written English is assessed directly, since the deliverable is prose.

Logistics

Fully remote, contractor, asynchronous task delivery with per-task or per-hour accounting
Roles typically fill within 48 hours; first tasks expected 24–48 hours after onboarding
Volume is project-driven and can fluctuate; most experts run this alongside clinical work
Observed band is $45–95/hr, weighted by credentials, subspecialty depth and calibration performance — not guaranteed

Before you apply

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Do you hold an active clinical licence or registration in good standing in mental health?
Clinical licence · required
Have you had a direct adolescent clinical caseload within the past two years?
Recent adolescent caseload · required
Do you have 3 or more years of post-qualification experience with direct adolescent contact focused on suicide or self-harm risk?
Post-qualification experience · preferred
Have you administered and interpreted the C-SSRS, or an equivalent structured suicide risk instrument, in routine practice?
C-SSRS proficiency · required
Are you a native English writer, or do you hold IELTS 7.5+ (writing 7.0+), TOEFL 100+, or Cambridge C1–C2?
Written English · required
Can you begin your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding?
Immediate start · preferred

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Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether your recent clinical contact is genuinely adolescent and genuinely risk-focused, rather than adult work with occasional under-18s.
A strong answer: Name the service and setting, the age band you actually see, rough case volume, and the share that presented with self-harm or suicidal ideation — plus who you escalate to and receive referrals from.
Where people lose it: Answering in career-summary terms ('fifteen years in mental health') without ever landing on the last two years or on adolescents specifically; the screen is checking currency of caseload, not total tenure.

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