Senior Autism Assessor for Children and Young ; ADOS​/ADIR trained - Remote

Senior Autism Assessor for Children and Young People (ADOS +/- ADIR trained) - Remote (Employed)

Remote

Senior Autism Assessor for Children and Young People

Time commitment: Full-time employment is preferred, though we can also offer part-time (minimum of 3 days per week for HCPC, NMC, and Social Work England registered professionals, and a minimum of 2 days per week for GMC registered professionals).

Location: This is a fully remote role; however, you must permanently reside in the UK throughout your employment with Paloma.

Reporting to: Autism Service Team 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 happen by redesigning care pathways, building new software & AI tools, and training up a specialist clinical workforce.

We are growing incredibly fast to meet the need for autism and ADHD care, and we have:

• Raised £5m pre‑seed funding from leading healthcare investors (Triple Point Ventures and Heal Capital)
• Grown our fantastic team to 80 people, and are hiring ~100 more over the next 12 months

How is Paloma Health different from other Neurodevelopmental providers?

• We are clinically‑led, Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered, and rigorous in recording our outcomes and family experiences.
• Our in‑house product & engineering team ensures we can:
• Give families a more 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!
• Being backed by leading healthcare investors (Triple Point Ventures and Heal Capital) allows us to move fast

The Opportunity

Paloma Health has developed a new gold‑standard autism assessment pathway and our own Patient Record software system, which allows us to offer:

• An exceptional service and timely assessments, as well as clear strengths and needs‑based outcomes, regardless of whether an autism diagnosis is made.
• High assessor role satisfaction by improving the experience of delivering assessments. For example, we are building an AI tool to streamline diagnostic report writing, which we know is a pressure of the role.

You will be a Senior Assessor within our multidisciplinary assessment team, delivering:

• Remote child observations (via video calls), if you have the relevant skills
• Peer MDT diagnostic decision‑making, with the support of the senior clinical MDT where required
• Tech‑enabled outcome report writing
• Outcome calls with parents and families (via video call)

Our Senior Assessors focus on delivering direct care to our families. Where our Senior Assessors have additional skills, where possible we seek to offer additional responsibilities through an internal application process. These additional responsibilities include supporting more complex cases, ensuring quality assurance, providing training, facilitating family engagement, and contributing to pathway development.

About you, and how we will support you

From a cultural perspective, you are:

• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and embracing change
• Excited about using new technologies in your role
• Always looking for ways to improve our staff and patient experience

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 additional responsibility Senior Assessor roles) and cross‑skill (e.g. into ADHD when we launch that service).
• 1 protected day per month for assessor team training, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), clinical supervision 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:

• Conduct high‑quality autism…