Location
Wandsworth, London

Hours
Working hours throughout training are 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. After training (typically around six months), flexible working patterns are available, including full-time Assessment Centre roles or hybrid working arrangements.

Salary
£49,934 per annum

About the Role
As a Functional Assessor, you will use your clinical expertise to carry out functional assessments of claimants face to face, via video, and telephone to evaluate their ability to undertake daily living activities. You will ask focused questions, apply active listening and critical reasoning skills to gather accurate information, and produce high-quality, structured clinical reports for submission to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). You will work alongside experienced clinical colleagues to ensure assessments are clinically fair and of high quality.

In this role, you will not make decisions or recommendations regarding claimant services or benefits but will use your clinical experience to fully understand claimants’ needs and living environments, providing accurate information for DWP decision-making.

Benefits include predictable hours, up to 10% quarterly discretionary bonus, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy more, private pension, private medical insurance, maternity and parental leave, paid training and CPD, reimbursed registration fees, paid structured training to achieve formal DWP accreditation, a supportive clinically led culture, clear career progression within Ingeus and the wider APM Group, online shopping discounts, various financial and lifestyle benefits, and a £2000 refer a friend scheme.

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

About you
- Thrives in a high-performing, structured environment focused on service excellence.
- Open to formal training to become a DWP approved Functional Assessor.
- Receptive to ongoing constructive feedback to ensure the best claimant experience.
- Confident using computers and learning new software 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 retraining or a new direction, dislike working with targets, or are unable to work on site for some or all of the working week (minimum 3 days).

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