Autism & ADHD Assessor for Children – Self-employed

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🕒 June 29

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Paloma Health

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🏥 Healthcare

👥 B2C

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 Pre-Seed Round on 2025-07

Healthcare • B2C

Paloma Health is an independent healthcare provider (trading as Your Patient Choice Limited) that offers NHS-funded autism and ADHD assessments and related care for children and young people under England's NHS Right to Choose framework. They provide remote, hybrid, and in-person assessments (clinics in Norwich, Exeter and Barnstaple), a joint assessment pathway for co-occurring autism and ADHD, and an NHS-funded medication pathway where appropriate. Paloma emphasises short waiting times compared with traditional NHS services, follows NICE guidance, is clinician-led and regulated, and targets families seeking timely neurodevelopmental assessment and follow-up for children and young people.

📋 Description

• 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 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 Autism and ADHD assessments. At a minimum, we will consider 6 months of experience within a children’s Autism and ADHD assessment pathway. For Clinical Psychologists, we include pre-graduation experience within the 6 months of experience. • Your children’s Autism and ADHD experience should include: • Having a sound understanding of typical development through life stages, co-occurring conditions, and differentials. • Have a good understanding of normal levels of attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity in typically developing children and young people, and consider this within the cultural background of the individual being assessed. • The ability to present findings which are client-centred and include strengths and needs. • You can demonstrate 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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. • £500 per completed developmental history and family feedback. • £270 per completed child observation.

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