Adolescent/Child Safeguarding & Exploitation Specialist

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3–5+ years post-qualification 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 (within the last two years) 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 (native, or IELTS 7.5+/writing 7.0+, TOEFL 100+, Cambridge C1–C2, or equivalent).

• Experience in a designated safeguarding or expert-witness capacity, and familiarity with ACEs and trauma frameworks, is a plus.

Start Timeline & Availability

We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24 – 48 hours of completing onboarding.