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Autism & ADHD Assessor for Children – Self-employed
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
4 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Junior
Job Description
Autism & ADHD Assessor for Children – Self-employed
Greenhouse Software
• 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.
Job 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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