Become a Clinical Trained Assessment Test Assistant
Thank you for your interest in joining us as a Clinical Trained Assessment Test Assistant. As a test assistant, you’ll be self-employed, working in partnership with Autism ADHD Test, conducting assessments for autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.
What the Role Involves:
Comprehensive Training
No prior experience is required, although experience in working with children, adults with ADHD/autism, or report writing is beneficial. Full training is provided in stages.
Franchise Model
You’ll be building your client base with our support. This includes training, marketing, securing venues, and facilitating conversations with potential clients and partners.
Collaborative Opportunities
We’ll work together to build partnerships with professionals, schools, and other organizations to generate leads for assessments.
Investment in Tools
After completing the training, you will be required to purchase the ADOS manual and other assessment resources. Incentives are available for covering these costs.
Training Details
Our next training cohort begins in October 2024. The first three days of training will take place online via Teams from 10 AM to 3 PM.
Day 1 – 12th October: This day will be learning about how to do autism assessments. The knowledge and theory around it. Autism ADHD company values. What it will look like to work in partnership with us. We will go through report writing, what we include and why. We will have an introduction to coding for ADOS 2.
Day 2 – 19th October: This day will be learning about how to code an autism assessment. We will look at what coding is, how to code and then code an assessment. You will be watching a video of an assessment, code then write a short report.
Day 3 – 2nd November: This day will be continuing to code using a different module doing the same as day 2. We will discuss what your plans/hopes are in working with us in the future and how to get started.
Some homework will be given after each training so please plan/schedule some time each week to do this. (at least a few hours)
Day 4 – 9th November: Face-to-face training – We will look at all the ADHD assessments tools we use. You will have an assessment to understand how it works. Look at ADHD reports and role play autism assessment.
After these sessions, you will shadow real assessments, and within 6–12 months, you will receive dyslexia training. Additional training will be provided as needed.
Ongoing Support
You’ll receive full support from Jane, our Senior Test Assistant, with feedback on reports and guidance through the entire process, from initial client contact to report writing.
Payment and Career Progression
This covers several hours of work, including both the assessment and report writing.
As you gain experience when writing assessments, your pay rate will increase.
While you are trained to conduct assessments, all assessments and reports will be signed off under supervision. Further qualifications to sign off on reports independently are available but not required.
Assessments, reports and your practice will always be under Jane’s or the director’s Linus supervision as you will be trained to do assessments though not qualified to sign off assessments or reports. (these are other qualifications that you may be interested in in the future though not necessary to do assessments)
We conduct assessments to provide the necessary information for a diagnosis, although we are not qualified to make a diagnosis ourselves. These assessments allow individuals to access the support they need without having to endure the long waiting times often experienced with the NHS.
We follow all the NICE guidance for the assessments. We use ADOS 2 assessments for Autism (same as NHS) QB check for ADHD and TOD for dyslexia. These are gold standards assessments.
We have got a contract with Derby and Leicester council. We will be looking at getting other contracts in different areas across the county. We have also been putting in for bids to get contracts with the NHS (we could be on the right to choose list, well that is our aim)
Teams Across the UK
We have teams established in Kent, Birmingham, Dudley, Solihull, Essex, London, Hampshire, Southwest Peterborough, Bournemouth, and Swindon. We are actively expanding and have secured contracts with local councils in Derby and Leicester, with plans for more across the country.
Next Steps
To secure your place in the training cohort, you’ll need to make an investment of £1500. We offer flexible payment plans, with the option to pay in full or in 10 monthly installments of £150.
Ready to Get Started?
Submit a brief statement about your relevant skills and experience, and why you’re interested in becoming a Test Assistant. We look forward to working with you to make a difference in the lives of those seeking support for autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss further, feel free to email Jane at jane@autismadhdtest.co.uk, or fill in the contact form below to send an email directly.