Senior Autism and ADHD Assessor - Children in London

Are you an innovative clinician working in children and young people's autism and ADHD assessments, excited to use software and AI tools that enhance the assessor, child and family experience of care? This role is for you!

We are not a standard autism and ADHD assessment service; we:

• Have built our own technology and AI tools to gather information from families, and support your documentation, so you can focus on children's needs.
• Have Clinical Specialists, who are senior clinicians who work alongside you to ensure all of our assessments are multidisciplinary in line with NICE guidance.
• Offer an integrated ADHD prescribing service led by our Prescribing Team, ensuring families can get fast access to ADHD medications where required.

Your role is to deliver a fantastic assessment pathway for children who have been referred for both autism and ADHD assessments. 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.
• 1 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, documentation, development, and team building.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality children’s autism and ADHD neurodevelopmental assessments.
• Act in accordance with our safeguarding policy, including conducting a risk assessment where necessary.
• Keep up to date with 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.

Qualifications

• By background, you are either:
• 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 have at least 4 years of experience in delivering children’s autism and ADHD assessments, including:
• Having a sound understanding of typical development through life stages, co-occurring conditions, and differentials.
• Understanding 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.
• 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.

Contract and Working Pattern

• Permanent
• Full-time, part-time, flexible working, home or remote working, compressed hours.
• £63,000 to £70,000 a year, dependant on experience and occupation.

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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.