WCA - Nurse Functional Assessor - Hybrid

ZipRecruiter; Hereford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated nurses to join their Assessments Division. This role offers a unique opportunity to utilize your clinical skills in a supportive environment, conducting assessments that significantly impact individuals' lives. Enjoy the flexibility of working full-time, part-time, or hybrid, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. With a commitment to your professional growth, the company provides clinical development, career progression opportunities, and a supportive culture. Join a team that values diversity and inclusion, making a real difference in the community while advancing your nursing career.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Clinical development support

Career development opportunities

Revalidation support

Inclusive environment

Excellent benefits package

Qualifications

• 1 year’s broad post-registration experience as a nurse.
• Comfortable working towards individual and team targets.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments to understand how health conditions affect daily life.
• Produce factual reports for the Department for Work and Pensions.

Skills

NMC registered nurse

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Proactive and keen to learn

Ability to work with diverse conditions

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Job Description

Do good. Be great as a nurse.

Are you a nurse who wants to continue helping people but needs a better work-life balance? Join our Assessments Division and thrive as you use your clinical skills in a different way to help people move forward with their lives.

About the role

Day-to-day, you’ll carry out telephone, video, or face-to-face assessments to understand how a person's or health condition affects their daily life. You’ll listen to their experiences, ask questions, and use your insights to produce a factual report to help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) determine their eligibility for benefits. It’s important work that has a big impact on real lives, so we’ll make sure you get the time you need with each customer to undertake a quality and respectful service.

Every assessment is different. You will work on a variety of cases across a range of conditions. It’ll be challenging at times, but we’ll support you to manage your caseloads efficiently to deliver the best service. Our colleagues combine the highest levels of integrity with extensive clinical knowledge to offer the best service possible to our customers.

What we look for

• An NMC registered nurse with 1 year’s broad post-registration experience
• Someone who’s proactive and keen to learn
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable working towards individual and team targets, in a supportive environment
• Comfortable working with a diverse range of conditions, including mental health

What we offer

Our colleagues are the driving force behind delivering an excellent service. That’s why we go to great lengths to ensure that while they’re taking care of customers, we’re taking care of them.

• Competitive salary: £39,500
• Flexible working arrangements: You won’t be expected to work long days or take work home. Instead, you can work full time, part time, or hybrid in a pattern that gives you genuine work-life balance.
• Clinical development: We support your continuing medical education and provide time for clinical study with ongoing CPD support.
• Career development: We offer training programmes to develop your skills and clinical knowledge, as well as opportunities for progression at every stage of your career—including opportunities to explore other roles within Maximus.
• Revalidation support: We support you through the process and refund the cost of your revalidation.
• Supportive culture: We offer regular feedback and a coaching tool to help you deliver quality outputs for customers and thrive in your career with us.
• Inclusive environment: As a Confident Leader, we are committed to creating a fair, inclusive workplace for all. Join one of our colleague networks and champion DE&I initiatives to shape our inclusive culture.
• Excellent benefits: We offer a wide range of core and voluntary benefits that can be tailored to meet your needs and personal circumstances.

From working with a diverse range of customers to handling challenging situations, this role is a fantastic opportunity to develop your clinical knowledge and hone your assessment skills while helping people move forward with their lives.

EEO Statement

Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal wellbeing and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favorable treatment due to any personal characteristic. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post. We are a Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention, and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions. The Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job. When you complete your job application, you will find a question asking if you would like to apply under the Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for an interview. Your Guaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team. Where reasonable, Maximus will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process.