Job Description
Job Title: Nurse Functional Assessor
Location: Inverness
Salary: £39,500 per annum
Job Type: Hybrid Permanent/ Mon-Fri, 9-5 hours
The anticipated start date for this position is May 2025
Job Overview
Great opportunities: full-time, part-time, hybrid, and school-time-hours roles
We re looking for registered adult or mental health nurses who enjoy making a difference in people’s lives every day.
If you are looking for a break from shift work or are seeking a new exciting career opportunity to develop and enhance your nursing skills, and still be able to utilise your nursing skills but differently helping people, apply and become a Functional Assessor.
You will carry out assessments to understand how a person s disability or health condition affects their daily life and produce factual reports to help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) determine their eligibility for benefits.
Duties and responsibilities
- Conduct telephone, video or face-to-face assessments to understand how a person’s disability or health condition affects their daily life
- Produce Work Capability Assessment (WCA) reports to help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) determine a person s eligibility for benefits
- Develop your clinical knowledge and assessment skills with the support of regular feedback and supervision
What we look for:
- An NMC-registered adult or mental health nurse with at least 1 year s broad post-registration experience in the UK
- A proactive and keen learner with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Someone comfortable using computer software to type and produce detailed reports
- An expert clinician comfortable working with a diverse range of conditions, including complex cases and mental health conditions
This role is a great opportunity for registered nurses to develop their clinical knowledge and hone their assessment skills further, all while helping people move forward with their lives.
Great Benefits Package
- Competitive Salary: £39,500pa
- Opportunities to increase Income (Overtime & Incentives)
- Annual Bonus scheme
- Various company-wide benefits that promote financial well-being.
- We offer Nurses full-time, part-time, and hybrid working opportunities
- Dedicated team to support with Revalidation and ongoing CPD
- Protected time for CPD and clinical development, which counts towards revalidation
- Maternity and Paternity packages for nurses (18 weeks of full maternity Pay) including (adoption & surrogacy) and 6 weeks of full paternity pay.
- Other support includes neonatal/premature paid leave, pregnancy loss paid leave, and child bereavement leave.
- We offer a Healthcare Cash Plan
- Pension Plan
- We offer 25 days annual leave, increasing to 27 days after five years with the company
Contact Raj, Fel or Tamara on (phone number removed)
