Time commitment: Full-time employment is preferred, though we can also offer part-time (minimum of 3 days per week, which can consist of 2 days in clinic and 1 day remote if preferred).
Location: This role is in-person based in our Norwich clinic - Cavell House & Austin House Stannard Place, St Crispins Rd, Norwich NR3 1YE
Reporting to: Autism Service Team Manager.

About Paloma
In 2024, our founders, Mark and Darshak, were shocked to find that children needing an NHS autism or ADHD assessment were waiting 4-10 years for these assessments. Delayed assessments result in children being more likely to develop mental health conditions and fall behind in education. Furthermore, the much-needed pre/post-assessment support (outside of ADHD medications) is typically not funded by the NHS.

These long waits have built up due to increased recognition and understanding of neurodevelopmental conditions and a lack of investment and innovation within the NHS to meet the growing demand. Mark and Darshak, with their 25 years of combined NHS experience, including building services that have treated over 1,000,000 patients in obesity & ophthalmology, founded Paloma to change this. Our mission is to make NHS autism and ADHD assessments and care accessible within 4 weeks of a GP referral, and, in turn, help every child achieve their potential.

As of May 2026, we have successfully reduced waits to 3 months by:

• Taking a product-first approach to redesign the care pathway to give families a more consumer-like experience of care
• Our in-house product, engineering and AI team building our own autism and ADHD specific electronic patient record and AI documentation tool to free clinicians from their significant documentation burden to re-focus on supporting families
• Investing in expanding the clinician workforce and upskilling them in new ways of working.

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. You will work as a member of a multidisciplinary assessment team, delivering in-person child observations and peer MDT diagnostic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high-quality child observations as part of an autism assessment.
• Act in accordance with our Safeguarding Policy, including conducting a risk assessment where necessary.
• Keep up to date with mandatory training and your professional qualification requirements, including CPD.

Qualifications and experience
Required:

• NMC-registered Nurse OR HCPC Registered Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Arts Therapist, or Practitioner Psychologist OR Social Work England Registered Social Worker.
• Completion of a recognised ADOS-2 course is required.
• At least 1 year of experience delivering children’s observations within an autism assessment process.
• Enhanced DBS with barred list check.

Why join Paloma?

• Total compensation of £68,000 to £70,000 per year for OTs, SLTs, Arts Therapists, Nurses, and Social Workers.
• Total compensation of £70,000 to £72,000 per year for Practitioner Psychologists.
• Equity compensation through Share Options.
• 37 days of annual leave (including bank holidays and birthday).
• NHS discounts (Blue Light Card).

Paloma Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and throughout the application process.