Location
London

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

Salary
Starting salary £49,934 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, and a high performing, supportive clinically led culture with clear career routes within Ingeus and the wider APM Group.

About the Role
As a Functional Assessor, you will use your clinical expertise to carry out functional assessments with claimants face to face, via video and telephone, assessing their ability to undertake activities of daily living. You will ask focused questions using 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 experienced clinical colleagues, you will ensure high-quality and clinically fair assessments for all claimants. This role offers predictable hours, flexibility with remote and hybrid working options, and a formalised training programme to become a DWP approved Functional Assessor. While you will not make decisions on services or benefits, your clinical experience will help gather the necessary information for DWP decision-making.

Experience
Minimum 12 months post-registration clinical experience and practising as a clinician 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 and ongoing constructive feedback. Confident using computers and learning new software to complete detailed, high-quality reports. Comfortable working in an environment with targets and able to work on site at least 3 days per week. Not suited to those uncomfortable with technology, who dislike report writing, prefer hands-on clinical care, or are not seeking a new direction or retraining.

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.