General Practitioner in Neurodevelopmental Assessments

Job description

Job responsibilities

About Paloma

Paloma Health is a new technology-enabled provider of NHS mental and physical health services. We are driven by our mission to make high-quality NHS outpatient services accessible within 4 weeks, and to make those services more affordable for the NHS.

We are unique through:

• Being clinically-led, with a friendly and approachable team

• Our use of technology and innovation to improve patient and staff experience

• A strong culture, including transparency, a sense of community, and supporting staff career development

• The experience of our founders, who have previously built technology-enabled providers in NHS obesity, diabetes, and ophthalmology care treating over 1 million patients in the last 15 years

• Being backed by leading healthcare investors.

You will be part of our much needed NHS service, Neurodevelopmental Assessments for children and young people. We are actively delivering autism assessments and will be launching ADHD assessments in spring 2025.

We need your help to innovate and tackle the crisis in NHS Neurodevelopmental Services as set out in the October 2024 Childrens Commissioner report, with over 200,000 children today waiting 2+ years for an autism and/or ADHD assessment. Read more on the crisis here: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/childrens-commissioner-warns-of-invisible-crisis-as-delays-and-inequalities-laid-bare-among-children-with-neurodevelopmental-conditions/

The Opportunity

We have created a unique new General Practitioner Development Role in Neurodevelopmental Assessments. We will train you to become part of our multidisciplinary assessment team providing a mix of:

• In-person physical examinations and child observations

• Peer MDT diagnostic decision making, with support of the senior clinical MDT where required

• Prescribing within our ADHD pathways

Why is Paloma Health unique in Neurodevelopmental services? We have developed a new gold-standard autism assessment pathway and our own Patient Record IT system, which allows us to offer:

• Our patients 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 a tool to partially automate diagnostic report writing, which we know is a pressure of the role.

What type of person are you, and what do we offer you?

Does this sound like you:

• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and embrace change

• Excited by using new technologies in your role

• Always looking for ways to improve our staff and patient experience

We commit to supporting your development and wellbeing including:

• The Paloma Clinical Academy programme, supporting all clinicians at all stages of their career to develop and cross skill

• Regular clinical supervision

• Protected time and budgets for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), reflection, and training, including formal autism qualifications if desired.

• Quarterly development conversations, with clear career progression pathways

• Clear weekly timetables that support a role mix across patient care, administration, development, and team building.

Responsibilities:

• We will train you in delivering clinical examinations and child observations within Autism and ADHD, and how to feed into peer MDT discussions. We will also train you on responsible prescribing within a Neurodevelopmental Service.

• You will act in accordance with our Safeguarding Policy, including conducting a risk assessment where necessary.

• You will keep up to date with mandatory training, and your professional qualification requirements including CPD.

Qualifications, experience and location:

Required:

• Registration with the GMC, and on the GP Register

• Good time management skills including caseload management

• High quality parent and patient communication skills

• Enhanced DBS with barred list check (as you will be working with children)

Desirable:

• Previous experience in Autism or ADHD assessments, and prescribing within ADHD

• Experience of conducting safeguarding risk assessments

• Evidence of Safeguarding training (Level 3 and above)

Dont meet every requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people from ethnic minority groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Paloma is dedicated to building a diverse and top performing workplace, so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align with every qualification, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Time commitment: Part time, either 2-3 days per week.

Location: This is a hybrid role between our Exeter (Devon) in person clinic and home.

Reporting to: Autism Service Team Manager

Benefits:

• Our strong and positive culture through our values and cultural recipe. This includes monthly staff wellbeing check ins, with clear company responses to feedback

• Being part of a 4-10 person clinical team, with protected time and budgets to come together, share learnings, support each other and build a community.

• Competitive annual salary

• Annual salary reviews, 5% employer pension, and company laptop.

• Share options in Paloma Health - we all benefit from our success!

• A unique benefits package including 26 days of annual leave per year plus bank holidays, plus a further 10 days of paid leave as a sabbatical for every 3 years of service.

• Access to NHS discount including the Blue Light Card (as we are an NHS provider)

Equality & Diversity

Paloma Health is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion both within the workplace and throughout our application process. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Application process

Please apply on Linkedin. Closing date for applications is Sunday 26th January.

We understand that applying for a new job takes a lot of work and we value your time. We are looking forward to reading your application.

Join us and be part of our journey to revolutionise access to Neurodevelopmental Assessments for patients in England!

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Good time management skills including caseload management
• High quality parent and patient communication skills
• Enhanced DBS with barred list check (as you will be working with children)

Desirable

• Previous experience in Autism or ADHD assessments, and prescribing within ADHD

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with the GMC, and on the GP Register

Desirable

• Experience of conducting safeguarding risk assessments
• Evidence of Safeguarding training (Level 3 and above)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Paloma Health

Address

Living Options Devon

Lustleigh Close

Marsh Barton Trading Estate

Exeter

EX2 8PW

Employer's website

https://www.paloma.health/ (Opens in a new tab)