Personal Functional Assessor

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Ipswich
Salary
Excellent Benefits
Posted
15 Jun 2022
Closes
13 Jul 2022
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Personal Functional Assessor
Starting Salary - GBP37,333 + Excellent Benefits
Ipswich (Home-based or Office Based)
Flexible Working Opportunities
Full Time or Part Time

Everpool Recruitment is currently recruiting HCPC/NMC registered Nurse (RGN, RMN, RNLD), Physiotherapists, Paramedics and Occupational Therapists who would be interested in pursuing a challenging and rewarding career as PIP Disability Assessor.

This is an excellent opportunity to utilise your clinical knowledge, skills and decision-making abilities in a new environment whilst gaining an accredited qualification to add to your portfolio.

Duties&Responsibilities:
The key duties of this role are carrying out assessments (currently telephone based), and writing factual reports based on those assessments utilising all medical evidence provided.
Ordinarily these assessments were conducted face to face, in a local clinic but we now also have homebased roles available.

Your training will be a mixture of virtual and assessment centre based to ensure the right level of support and learning is offered; until you are signed off and you will be permanently working from home or go into site if this is what you prefer.

Person Specification:
• 1 Year post-qualification experience in one of the following occupations: Nurse, Physiotherapist, Paramedic, Occupational Therapist • Have an active registration with NMC/HCPC
• No previous Disability Assessor experience is required as training is provided. However, it is essential that any applicant is either a qualified Nurse, Physiotherapist, Paramedic or Occupational Therapist.
• Appropriate workspace within the home setting that allows you to successfully complete your role

Benefits
• A full comprehensive training course is provided (for which you are paid a full-time salary).
• Complete flexibly of working hours 8am-8pm Monday to Sunday - 40 hour working week
• 25 days annual leave (plus eight bank holidays)
• Annual leave increase with completed service
• Moving day leave
• Birthday leave
• long service awards (opportunity to earn an additional GBP4850 within 3.5 years)
• NMC/HCPC fee reimbursement
• Continuous Professional Development&support with re-validation
• Home Working

If you are interested in the Clinical Assessor position please 'Click Apply' or alternatively email Ellouise on (url removed) to find out further information about this opportunity