Health Assessor

Health Assessor - Hybrid:
Utilise your existing clinical knowledge and become a Disability Assessor

This is an opportunity to take on a new challenge and further their career with a leading, multinational organisation where you can utilise your healthcare knowledge and compassion to take your career in a new direction

We are now recruiting Nurses, Paramedics, Physiotherapists or Occupational Therapists to carry out assessments on behalf of the DWP in a hybrid working role.

**Benefits**:

- _**Basic salary of £35,000, rising to £36,000 upon achieving department-approved status, with potential quality bonus of 10**_%
- Initial 6 weeks’ training + additional 10 week individual development plan
- **Incremental pay progression £1,000 upon completing of further training.**
- **Flexible work patterns - **While you’ll be contracted to work 7.5 hours per day, 37.5 hours per week, you’ll be able to agree your actual working hours with your line manager.
- **Hybrid Working -** clinic based appointments 1 or 2 days per week.
- 23 days’ holiday, rising to 25 after 2 years’
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity
- Annual charity day
- Employee network groups
- Company matched pension
- Life assurance
- 15 weeks’ paid maternity
- Cycle2work scheme
- Voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle including discounts on retail, socialising, health & wellbeing, travel and technology.

**Responsibilities**:

- Undertake an assessment of an individual who is making a claim taking into account all of the information presented including any supporting evidence e.g. the claimant’s completed questionnaire and information from GP’s etc.
- Carry out a comprehensive review and analysis to enable you to complete a robust, structured report which will contain a detailed history of the claimant condition(s) including information gathered on the functional impact of their health condition or impairment on their daily living and mobility, their current medication and treatment.
- You will provide a full justification explaining how you came to these conclusions from the evidence gathered and probable timescales over which a health condition or impairment may affect the claimant.

*Hybrid working consists of attending a local clinic 1 or 2 days per week to carry out face to face appointments and then carrying out telephone assessments from home the rest of the week

**Requirements**:

- Qualified Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Paramedic
- 1+ years post qualification experience
- Valid registration on NMC or HCPC

Full training will be provided, and hours of work will be during the day from Monday to Friday.

REF: INDMID

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £35,000.00-£36,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

**Experience**:

- Nurse/Physio/OT/Pharmacist: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Smethwick, West Midlands

Reference ID: INDMID