Senior Prescriber for Children’s ADHD

Overview

Time commitment: Full-time (1 FTE) Location: RemoteReporting to: NeurodevelopmentalTeam Manager.

PalomaPaloma’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 possible by setting a new standard for high-quality autism and ADHD care, building great software & AI tools, and investing in clinicians' learning & development.Mark and Darshak founded Paloma due to their frustration that families are waiting 4-10 years for NHS children’s autism and ADHD assessments.

This crisis in NHS children’s neurodevelopmental services has been highlighted by the Children’s Commissioner for England here:

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/childrens-commissioner-warns-of-invisible-crisis-as-delays-and-inequalities-laid-bare-among-children-with-neurodevelopmental-conditions/Since

launching, we have:Grown a fantastic team of 120 people, of whom over 80 are clinicians.To meet the needs of families, we are recruiting over 100 more people over the next 12 monthsRaised £5m pre-seed funding from leading healthcare inves.tors (Triple Point Ventures and Heal Capital), helping us to invest in our technology and our teamAchieved financial sustainability.

How is Paloma Health different from o.ther Neurodevelopmental providers?Our clinical quality: We are clinically led, Care Quality Commission (CQC)- registered, measure our outcomes, and continuously improve our pathway for families and clinicians.Our internal product & engineering team, who build fantastic software to:Give families a fantastic consumer-like experience of healthcareFree our clinicians from documentation to focus on supporting familiesOur strong culture: including transparency, a sense of community, and supporting staff career developmentThe 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!The Opportunity.

Are you an innovative Nurse, always thinking of new ways to approach ADHD prescribing, and how software tools can enhance the prescriber and patient experience of care? This role is for you!We are not a standard ADHD prescribing service; we:Have built our own technology & AI tools to ga.ther the required information from families, and support your documentation, so you can focus on children’s needsHave an integrated electronic prescribing system within our electronic patient record - no jumping between two systemsNHS Electronic Prescribing Service access, so families can take the prescription where they needPaloma provides NHS children’s ADHD assessment and treatment services, including ADHD medication prescribing.

For children who reach 18 years of age, we offer continued ADHD prescribing under an Adult ADHD prescribing pathway.

Our Senior Prescriber will ensure we deliver a fantastic Children’s ADHD prescribing service to families

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