Location
Fully remote role - applicants must live outside of London, Essex, and the South East of England.

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

Salary
Starting salary £42,985 with further uplifts as you learn new specialist skills from year 2.
Up to 10% quarterly discretionary bonus
25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) with the option to buy more

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 liaise directly with claimants using active listening and questioning skills to obtain additional evidence needed to complete assessments. You will work closely with clinical peers across the NHS, private healthcare, charities, and support organisations to gather and evaluate evidence for detailed assessment reports.

Your responsibilities will include triaging cases to determine assessment routes, conducting initial case reviews, file work, and paper-based assessments. You will apply critical thinking and logical reasoning to produce accurate and detailed reports on each case.

As a Functional Assessor with Ingeus, you can expect predictable hours, private pension, private medical insurance, maternity and parental leave, paid training including CPD and reimbursed registration fees, and structured training to achieve formal DWP accreditation. You will be part of a high performing, supportive clinically led culture with clear career routes within Ingeus and the wider APM Group. Additional benefits include online shopping discounts, a £2000 refer a friend scheme, and a variety of other financial and lifestyle options.

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 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 to ensure the best claimant experience.
- 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 retraining, dislike working with targets, or require on-site work 3 days a week.

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