Job Title:Nurse Functional Assessor
Location: Halifax
Salary: £37,800 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 or part-time.
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: £37,800pa
* 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)