Nurse Functional Assessor

Minerva Nursing; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 33,575 - 45,425; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Annual Bonus

Pension Plan

Healthcare Cash Plan

25 days annual leave

Maternity/Paternity packages

Job summary

Minerva Nursing in Leeds is seeking a Nurse Functional Assessor to join our hybrid roles. You will assess how health conditions affect daily living and prepare reports for DWP eligibility, leveraging your clinical expertise to support clients.

We value nurses with UK post-registration experience and strong communication skills, offering a pathway to expand assessment capabilities and CPD while maintaining clinical skills.

Qualifications

• NMC-registered adult or mental health nurse with UK experience.
• Proactive learner with excellent oral and written communication.
• Comfortable using computer software to type and produce detailed reports.
• Expert clinician with diverse conditions, including mental health.

Responsibilities

• Carry out assessments to understand how a person’s disability or health condition affects daily life.
• Produce factual reports to help the DWP determine eligibility for benefits.
• Develop clinical knowledge and hone assessment skills while helping people move forward.

Skills

NMC Registered

1+ Year Post-Registration

Good Communication

Report Writing

Digital Literacy

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Title: Nurse Functional Assessor

Location: Leeds

Salary: £39,500 per annum

Job Type: Hybrid Permanent/ Mon-Fri, 9-5 hours

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.

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: £39,500 pa
• 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 of annual leave, increasing to 27 days after five years with the company