Time commitment: Between 3-5 days per week (0.6-1 FTE) - our preference is for this to be an Employed position, but we will also consider Self-employed arrangements

Location: Remote

Reporting to: NeurodevelopmentalTeam Manager

About Paloma

Paloma’s mission is to make children’s autism and ADHD assessments and care available on the NHS within 4 weeks of GP referral. We are making this possible by setting a new standard for high-quality autism and ADHD care, building great software & AI tools, and investing in clinicians' learning & development.

Mark and Darshak founded Paloma due to their frustration that families are waiting 4-10 years for NHS children’s autism and ADHD assessments.

Since launching, we have:

Grown a fantastic team of 120 people, of whom over 80 are clinicians.
Raised £5m pre-seed funding from leading healthcare investors (Triple Point Ventures and Heal Capital), helping us to invest in our technology and our team
Achieved financial sustainability

How is Paloma Health different from other Neurodevelopmental providers?

Our clinical quality: We are clinically led, Care Quality Commission (CQC)- registered, measure our outcomes, and continuously improve our pathway for families and clinicians.
Our internal product & engineering team, who build fantastic software to:

Give families a fantastic consumer-like experience of healthcare
Free our clinicians from documentation to focus on supporting families

Our strong culture: including transparency, a sense of community, and supporting staff career development
The experience of our founders, Dr Mark Jenkins & Darshak Shah: who have previously built tech-enabled NHS obesity and ophthalmology services. Combined, their previous companies have treated over 1 million NHS patients in the last 15 years!

The Opportunity

Are you an innovative clinician working in children’s dual autism and 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 Dual autism and ADHD assessment service; we:

Have built our own technology & AI tools to gather the required information from families, and support your documentation, so you can focus on children’s needs
Have a Clinical Specialist, who is a senior clinician who works 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

This role will ensure we deliver a fantastic Children’s Dual Autism and ADHD assessment service to families.

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, administration, development, and team building.

About you

You are a registered nurse, speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, social worker or practitioner psychologist skilled in Dual Autism and ADHD assessments.

From a mindset perspective, you are excited to work in an innovative environment, use software and AI tools, and are always looking for ways to improve our team's and families’ experience with Paloma.

Responsibilities:

Deliver high-quality Children’s Dual Autism and 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

Qualifications and experience:

Required:

By background, you are either a:

NMC-registered Nurse
HCPC Registered Speech and Language Therapist, or Occupational Therapist, or Practitioner Psychologist
Social Work England Registered Social Worker

You have at least 1 year of experience in delivering Children’s Dual Autism and ADHD assessments, including:

Having a sound underst

Neurodevelopmental Assessor for Children’s ADHD and Autism (Dual Assessor) at Paloma Health