# Combined Autism & ADHD Assessor for Children

**Company**: Paloma Health
**Location**: London, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Job type**: full-time, part-time
**Salary**: £60,000 to £62,000 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Combined Autism & ADHD Assessor for Children to join our team at Paloma Health. As a clinician with experience in children's autism and ADHD assessments, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality neurodevelopmental assessments to families.

**Job 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

**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.

- 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:**

- Total compensation of £60,000 to £62,000 per year, made up of base and variable components

- 5% employer pension contribution

- Equity compensation through Share Options in Paloma Health

- Optional Private Medical Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme

- Home Office Equipment Allowance

- Professional Registration Fees Allowance for clinicians

- A unique annual leave benefits package which includes 37 days of annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays, plus your birthday off

**About Us:** Paloma Health is a clinically-led organisation with a team of 130 people, including over 80 clinicians supporting families through their assessment journey. We are backed by leading healthcare investors Triple Point and Heal Capital.

## Skills

### Required
- Autism assessments
- ADHD assessments
- Neurodevelopmental assessments
- Safeguarding
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Experience in conducting risk assessments within Neurodevelopmental assessments
- Safeguarding training to Level 3 and above

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