Autism Assessor

POSITION: Permanent, Full Time

HOURS: Full time and part time opportunities available. 15 hours per week up to 37.5 hours per week.

LOCATION: Remote, UK based

REMUNERATION:  

• Salary Band - £60,000 to £62,000 depending on experience with children, adults, ADOS, ADI-r and ADHD
• Extensive benefits package including Health Cash Plan worth over £1000  

United by our vision. Leading with empathy. Pioneers in curiosity.

Healios exists to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere.  By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and families to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home.

You will play a pivotal role in leading high-quality neurodevelopmental assessments, making clear, evidence-based diagnostic decisions, and delivering meaningful post-diagnostic support. You’ll work across all service lines (NHS, Melios, Right to Choose), with Bupa accreditation available for eligible clinicians.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Undertaking initial assessments, core needs assessments and developmental histories 
• Conducting ADOS and ADI-r assessments independently
• Leading on diagnostic decision making 
• Attending async MDT’s
• Providing post diagnostic support and feedback
• Completing high quality reports and documentation with the support of our digital report assistance tool

You will have the opportunity to work across all service lines (NHS, Melios, Bupa) and we provide the appropriate clinicians with Bupa accreditation. 

We are also particularly interested in hearing from autism assessing clinicians who have experience in assessing younger age children online (early years 3 - 6 years old). We can offer supervision and training to support online assessment skills if this experience has been face to face to date. We also have face to face assessing opportunities for younger age children in the London area. 

What you need to have

• Clinical qualification in:
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Psychology (Clinical, Counselling or Forensic) or
  • Mental Health/Learning Disability Nursing
  • Child or Adult Nursing 
  • Social Work (Children/Adult & Families/Mental Health)
  • Speech and Language Therapy 
  • Peadiatrician
• Clinical registration with HCPC, SWE, GMC or NMC
• Must be ADOS and ADI-R trained and experienced
• Minimum of 1 years experience of conducting diagnostic assessments using ADOS and ADI-R
• Flexibility to support our mission of bringing healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere
• A commitment to ethical practice and adherence to the highest standards of safeguarding of adults/children

What’s in it for you 

• Generous leave entitlement 
  • 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
  • Plus paid Christmas closure (between Christmas and New Year)
  • Plus Birthday Leave - paid day off on your birthday
  • Plus "Life Leave" - 2 days of extra leave to take when things you can't plan for happen
• Enhanced family friendly policies including a phased return to work and receive full pay
• Paid company sick pay scheme
• Contributory Pension Scheme (6% matched)
• Employee Discount to access a private assessment (for ADHD, Autism or a combined assessment) through our Melios service for your child
• Fully personalised flexible benefits package including; Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, EAP Service, Will Writing, Critical Illness Cover, employee discount and savings portal, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme and Wine Club!
• Access to NHS and Perks at Work discounts, including the Blue Light Card
• Work from anywhere policy 
• Free access to co-working spaces 
• Company laptop, monitor and keyboard, plus an allowance to purchase additional equipment
• CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth 
• Clinical Professional Registration Fee - Paid
• Bespoke Healios Training and on demand learning including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians

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ACCOMMODATIONS**

We’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the hiring process and we're always learning about different accessibility needs to ensure our hiring process is accessible for all candidates. We encourage you to be open about the adjustments you need so we can adapt our interview process. You can read more about Healios being an Inclusive Employer on our Notion page

We are a Disability Confident Employer and operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS). This means we are committed to interviewing all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. If you wish to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this when asked about disability on the application form.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

“Do the right thing” is one of our core Healios values. And building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels supported is absolutely the right thing to do. Whether we’re developing a new service line or enhancing one of our products, we need people with different skills, backgrounds, identities and perspectives to ensure our innovations will work for the children and young people we are here to serve. By embracing diversity, we can deliver better care experiences and outcomes, while tackling the inequalities in healthcare provision that exist today.

SAFER RECRUITMENT & PRE- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS 

Healios ensures that supporting people to be safe is at the heart of our work and a key priority across all areas of the organisation, We will do our absolute best to keep the people that we support, safe from harm. This starts with our recruitment processes.

As part of our pre-employment checks, all employees of Healios will be asked to have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Dependent on your role within the business, this will either be an Enhanced or Basic. A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check will be required. You will also be asked to provide two professional references as a minimum.