Senior Prescriber for Children’s ADHD

Time commitment: Full-time (1 FTE)

Location: Remote

Reporting to: NeurodevelopmentalTeam 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 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 months
• Raised £5m pre-seed funding from leading healthcare investors (Triple Point Ventures and Heal Capital), helping us to invest in our technology and our team
• Achieved financial sustainability

How is Paloma Health different from other 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 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!

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 gather the required information from families, and support your documentation, so you can focus on children’s needs
• Have an integrated electronic prescribing system within our electronic patient record - no jumping between two systems
• NHS Electronic Prescribing Service access, so families can take the prescription where they need

Paloma 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, and support our innovation and governance. If you have the appropriate skills, you can work across our Children’s and Adults ADHD prescribing pathways.

With success in this role, you can progress to our ADHD Prescribing Lead.

About you

Clinically, you are a Nurse with prescribing qualifications, skilled in ADHD prescribing best practices.

From a mindset perspective, you are excited to work in an innovative environment, use software and AI tools, and are always looking for ways to improve our team's and families’ experience with Paloma.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver a fantastic Children’s ADHD prescribing service, including medication initiation, titration and review appointments
• Be the first point of contact for additional questions between appointments
• Act as a point of contact for the development of Paloma’s software tools that ensure high-quality, safe, and efficient prescribing
• Be the internal expert for our ADHD prescribing team, helping with common questions and identifying what needs to be escalated to our Consultants
• Support robust clinical governance processes in our ADHD prescribing, e.g. regular audits

Qualifications and experience:

Required:

• A NMC-registered Nurse with an Independent Prescriber Qualification
• At least 4 years of experience in Children’s ADHD prescribing services
• At least 1 year of experience in senior clinical responsibilities, e.g. audits, incident reviews, acting as the escalation point for a prescribing team, and offering supervision

Desirable:

• Experience in Adult ADHD prescribing services

Why join Paloma?

You will be part of a mission-driven organisation that’s transforming access to autism and ADHD care in England. For all employees, we offer:

• A strong and positive culture that prioritises staff well-being, transparency, and career development. This includes quarterly development conversations and clear career progression pathways.
• Protected time and budget for team connection, learning, and community-building.
• Comprehensive compensation, including:
• £70,000 per year salary
• Annual salary reviews, ensuring they are competitive
• 5% employer pension contribution
• Equity compensation through Share Options in Paloma Health
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Home Office Equipment Allowance
• Professional Registration Fees Allowance
• A unique annual leave benefits package which includes:
• 37 days of annual leave. This is 28 standard days, plus eight bank holidays, plus your birthday off.
• Option to buy an additional 5 days per year (giving a maximum of 42 days)
• Where required, 2 days per year of special leave, for events that can happen in life, whether personal or family-related
• Additional benefits include:
• A premium performance company laptop
• NHS discounts, including the Blue Light Card (as we are an NHS provider).

Equality & Diversity

Paloma Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and throughout the application process. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic.

Accommodations

We’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the hiring process. We encourage you to be open about the adjustments you need, so we can adapt our interview process accordingly.

Safer Recruitment & Pre-Employment Checks

Paloma Health ensures that supporting people to be safe is at the heart of our work and a key priority across all areas of the organisation. As part of our pre-employment checks, you will be asked to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Depending on your role within the business, this will be at either an Enhanced, Standard, or Basic level. We are committed to safer recruitment practices and expect all applicants to share our dedication to safeguarding. Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure we appoint individuals who align with our values and will help maintain a safe and supportive environment for everyone we work with.

Application process

Please apply via our website. We understand that applying for a new job requires significant effort, and we appreciate your time. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Join us and be part of our journey to revolutionise access to NHS autism and ADHD care!

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