Occupational Therapist Functional Assessor

Aspect Healthcare; Barnsley; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare services provider in Barnsley is seeking a qualified Occupational Therapist to work as a Functional Assessor. This role involves assessing claimants for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefit, with a mixture of remote and face-to-face assessments. The position offers a generous annual leave package, flexible working patterns, and a paid training program to enhance your clinical skills while maintaining registration.

Benefits

Generous annual leave package

Hybrid working options

Fully-paid training program

Development and progression opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of broad post-registration experience.
• UK experience is essential.
• Receptive to feedback and keen to learn.

Responsibilities

• Assess claimants applying for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefit.
• Conduct assessments remotely and in-person.
• Complete assessments with individuals with various health conditions.

Skills

Proactive

Excellent communication skills

IT competency

Ability to work autonomously

Education

Qualified Occupational Therapist

Job description

Overview

Use your clinical experience to work with people who have a diverse range of health conditions, to gain a clear understanding of how their challenges and the ways their disability affects them impacts their daily life. Working within an office style environment and at home, to complete approximately detailed, meaningful and respectful assessments over the telephone, video or face-to-face. Interpret medical evidence and gather your findings into a comprehensive report, to support the decision-making process by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

You must have at least 1 year of broad post-registration experience and UK experience is essential. Proactive, keen to learn and receptive to feedback. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to work autonomously and I.T competency is a must-have. Mixture of remote and assessment centre working, offering an exceptional work-life balance.

Are you a qualified Occupational Therapist seeking a genuine work-life balance and a chance to thrive in a brand new healthcare environment, whilst both utilising and developing your clinical skills?

Responsibilities

• As a Functional Assessor you will work autonomously to assess the cases of claimants who are applying for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefit, as part of the DWP Health Assessment and Advisory Services (HAAS).
• The funding helps support individuals to live as much of an independent life as possible.
• You will be completing assessments with individuals who have an extremely broad range of health conditions, and you may conduct some of these assessments remotely.
• An in-depth training programme is provided which is also fully paid for, so you will feel fully equipped for your new role - plus this role counts towards your clinical hours, so you will maintain and uphold your registration.
• An excellent benefits package as a Functional Assessor includes (but not limited to):

Benefits

• A generous annual-leave package, plus all bank holidays off.
• Hybrid working with flexible patterns to champion healthy work/life balance.
• A collaborative and dynamic working environment.
• A robust fully-paid training programme.
• Great opportunities for development and progression.