ADHD Assessor in London

Are you an innovative clinician working in children's ADHD assessments, excited to use software tools that enhance the prescriber and patient experience of care? This role is for you! We are not a standard ADHD assessment service; we have built our own technology and AI tools to gather the required information from families and support your documentation, so you can focus on children's needs. We have a Clinical Specialist, who is a senior clinician working alongside you to ensure all of our ADHD assessments are multidisciplinary in line with NICE guidance. We offer an integrated prescribing service led by our Prescribing Team, ensuring families can get fast access to ADHD medications where required.

Main duties of the job:

• This role will ensure we deliver a fantastic Children's ADHD assessment service to families.
• If you have the appropriate skills, you can work across our Children's Autism and Children's Dual Autism and ADHD Assessment pathways.

We commit to supporting your development and well-being, including:

• The Paloma Clinical Academy programme supports all clinicians at all stages of their careers to develop (e.g. to our Senior Assessor role) and cross-skill (e.g. in autism).
• Regular clinical supervision.
• One protected day per month for assessor team training, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and reflection.
• Quarterly development conversations with clear career progression pathways.
• Clear weekly timetables that support a role mix across appointments, administration, development, and team building.

About us:

Paloma Health is a new technology-enabled provider for NHS mental and physical health services. We are driven by our mission to make high-quality NHS outpatient services accessible within 4 weeks and to make those services more affordable for the NHS. We are unique through:

• Being clinically-led, with a friendly and approachable team.
• Our use of technology and innovation to improve patient and staff experience.
• A strong culture, including transparency, a sense of community, and supporting staff career development.
• The experience of our founders, who have previously built technology-enabled providers in NHS obesity, diabetes, and ophthalmology care treating over 1 million patients in the last 15 years.
• Being backed by leading healthcare investors.

You will be part of our much-needed NHS service, Neurodevelopmental Assessments for children and young people (CYP). This covers both autism and ADHD assessments and will include a combined assessment pathway. We need your help to innovate and tackle the crisis in NHS Neurodevelopmental Services as set out in the October 2024 Children's Commissioner report, with hundreds of thousands of children waiting 2+ years for an autism and/or ADHD assessment.

Job responsibilities:

You are a registered nurse, speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, social worker, or practitioner psychologist skilled in ADHD assessments. You want to be part of an always-learning environment that embraces software and AI tools, and you will help us go further and faster with your positive and collaborative attitude.

• Deliver high-quality Children's ADHD Neurodevelopmental Assessments.
• Act in accordance with our Safeguarding Policy, including conducting a risk assessment where necessary.
• Keep up to date with the mandatory training, Continuing Professional Development, and professional registration requirements of your professional background.
• Share ideas for continuing to improve Paloma's software tools that ensure high-quality, safe, and efficient assessments.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• By background, you are either a:
• NMC-registered Nurse
• HCPC Registered Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Arts Therapist, or Practitioner Psychologist (including Clinical Psychologists, Educational Psychologists, and Counselling Psychologists)
• Social Work England Registered Social Worker

You ideally have at least 1 year of experience in delivering Children's ADHD assessments. At a minimum, we will consider 6 months of experience within a children's ADHD assessment pathway. For Clinical Psychologists, we include pre-graduation experience within the 6 months of experience.

Your children's ADHD experience should include:

• Having a sound understanding of typical development through life stages, co-occurring conditions, and differentials.
• Having a good understanding of normal levels of attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity in typically developing children and young people, and considering this within the cultural background of the individual being assessed.
• The ability to present findings which are client-centred and include strengths and needs.
• Demonstrating good time management skills, including caseload management, and good parent and child communication skills.
• Passing an enhanced DBS with barred list check, as you will be working with children.
• Experience in conducting risk assessments within Neurodevelopmental assessments.
• Safeguarding training to Level 3 and above.
• Experience in Children's Autism Assessments and Dual Assessments.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£60,000 to £68,000 a year dependent on experience and occupation.

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working.