Consultant Adult Psychiatrist specialising in ADHD
Time commitment: 1 day (8 hours) per week, ideally split over more than 1 day
Location: Remote (or hybrid in our London office if desired)
Reporting to: Neurodevelopmental Team Manager
About Paloma
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 and adult achieve their potential.
In 2024, our founders, Mark and Darshak, were shocked to find that children and adults needing an NHS autism or ADHD assessment were waiting 4-10 years for these assessments. Delayed assessments result in many risks, including to their mental health. 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.
As of May 2026, we have successfully reduced waits to less than 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.
We are proud that Paloma is:
- Loved by families, with 4.9 out of 5 Trustpilot and Google ratings
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered and quality-focused
- Clinically-led, with a team of 150 people, including over 100 clinicians supporting families through their assessment journey. We are hiring 100+ more roles over the next 12 months.
- A community of passionate, mission-driven and innovative team members who challenge the status quo and test and learn from new ideas and approaches.
- In control of our own destiny, as we are profitable and backed by leading healthcare investors Triple Point and Heal Capital
What’s next?
- Whilst we have reduced wait times, it is estimated that up to 500,000 children are still waiting for an NHS autism or ADHD assessment. We won’t rest until this comes down.
- There are also hundreds of thousands of adults with undiagnosed ADHD and/or autism stuck on NHS waiting lists
- We want to build new services that A) support people diagnosed with autism or ADHD who feel lost after their assessments when the NHS is no longer there for them, and B) expand our ADHD and autism assessment offer to adults
The Opportunity
Are you an innovative Consultant Adult Psychiatrist, always thinking of new ways to approach ADHD assessment and treatment, and how technology and software tools can enhance the assessor, prescriber and patient experience of care? This role is for you!
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, and we are exploring launching an Adult ADHD assessment and treatment pathway.
We are looking for a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist specialising in ADHD to partner with our Medical Director (Consultant Child Psychiatrist Dr Manish Rao) and Clinical Pathway Team to:
- Support the creation of a fantastic Adult ADHD prescribing pathway which meets the needs of patients and simplifies the steps for prescribers to follow
- Innovate by supporting the development of Paloma’s in-house electronic patient record system, which enables prescribers to safely and efficiently capture required monitoring information.
- Clinically supervise our team of medical and