Location
London

Hours
Full time Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm

Salary
Starting salary £51,582 with opportunity to achieve a £2,000 salary uplift over the first 12 months based on development milestones. Further salary uplifts available from year 2 as you learn new specialist skills. Up to 10% quarterly discretionary bonus.

Benefits
25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) with option to buy more
Private pension
Private medical insurance
Maternity and parental leave
Paid training, CPD and reimbursed registration fees
Paid, structured training to achieve formal DWP accreditation
Online shopping discounts
£2,000 refer a friend scheme
Variety of other financial and lifestyle options

About the Role
Are you looking to use your clinical skills in a different way? As a Functional Assessor, you'll continue to utilise your clinical expertise, maintain your registration, and enjoy a better work-life balance. You will carry out functional assessments with claimants face to face, via video and telephone to assess their ability to undertake activities of daily living. You will ask focused questions and use active listening and critical reasoning skills to gather accurate information throughout the claimant assessment. You will produce high quality, structured clinical reports for submission to the DWP. Working alongside other highly experienced clinical colleagues, you will ensure high-quality and clinically fair assessments for all claimants.

We offer flexible working arrangements to suit those who prefer to work full time in an Assessment Centre or in a hybrid role. Working hours during training are 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. After training (typically around six months), other working patterns are available.

Whilst you will not make decisions or recommendations regarding claimant services and benefits, you will use your clinical experience to ask the right questions to fully understand claimants’ needs and living environment, gathering accurate information for the DWP to make those decisions.

This role offers predictable hours and a high performing, supportive clinically led culture with clear career routes within Ingeus and the wider APM Group.

Experience
Minimum 12 months post-registration experience and active clinical practice within the last year. Pharmacists require a minimum of 18 months experience.

About you
Thrives on service excellence in a structured, high performing environment.
Open to formalised training to become a DWP approved Functional Assessor.
Receptive to ongoing constructive feedback.
Confident using computers and learning different software packages to complete detailed, high-quality reports.

This role may not suit you if you are uncomfortable with technology, dislike writing detailed reports, prefer hands-on clinical care, are not seeking a new direction or retraining, dislike working with targets, or are unwilling to work on site for some or all of the working week (minimum 3 days).

Qualifications
NMC-registered Adult Nurses (RGN, RMN, RNLD) or HCPC-registered Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Paramedics or GPhC-registered Pharmacists.
Excellent communication and critical-thinking skills.
Ability to type and confidence using computers.