Location
Golders Green, Greater London, United Kingdom, NW11

Hours
Full Time, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, Hybrid working

Salary
Starting salary £46,813. Salary at 12 months £48,813 plus potential to earn an additional £2,000 local bonus for this site, making first year earnings up to £50,813. Further salary uplifts available as you learn new specialist skills.

About the Role
Are you an experienced, motivated, high-performing clinician looking for a new way to use your clinical skills while achieving a better work-life balance? As a Functional Assessor with Ingeus, you will carry out functional assessments with claimants face to face, via video and telephone, to evaluate their ability to undertake activities of daily living. You will ask focused questions, use active listening and critical reasoning skills to gather accurate information, and produce high-quality, structured clinical reports for submission to the DWP. You will review and evaluate evidence, request additional information when necessary, and clinically triage cases to determine the correct assessment pathway. Working alongside other experienced clinical colleagues, you will contribute to delivering high-quality and fair assessments for all claimants. This role offers predictable hours, a supportive clinically led culture, a structured training programme to achieve formal DWP accreditation, and clear career progression within Ingeus and the wider APM Group. Benefits include up to 10% annual bonus paid quarterly, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy more, private pension scheme, private medical insurance, maternity and parental leave, paid CPD and reimbursed registration fees, a £2,000 refer a friend scheme, online shopping discounts, and various other financial and lifestyle options.

Experience
Minimum of 12 months post-qualification and registration experience. Must have been practicing as a clinician in the UK within the last 12 months.

About you
- NMC-registered Adult Nurses (RGN, RMN, RNLD) or HCPC-registered Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Paramedics.
- Excellent communication and critical-thinking skills.
- Confidence using computers and ability to learn different software packages.
- Open to a formalised training programme to become a DWP approved Functional Assessor.
- Receptive to ongoing constructive feedback to ensure the best claimant experience.
- Thrives in a structured working environment and enjoys using clinical skills in a different way.

Qualifications
Registered with the appropriate professional body (NMC or HCPC) and holding current registration.

Additional Information
This role may not be suitable if you are uncomfortable with technology, dislike writing detailed reports, prefer hands-on clinical care, are not seeking a new clinical direction, do not enjoy working with targets, or are unable to work on site three days per week.