Doctor (Functional Assessor) - #2173330

Job Title: Doctor Functional Assessor

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £72,000 per annum + bonuses

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

Job Overview

Great opportunities: full-time, part-time, hybrid, and school-time-hours roles

We’re looking for a broad based GMC registered Doctor 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 medical skills, and still be able to utilise your medical 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.

These are the range of services/benefits you will be providing reports for:

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
• Work Capability Assessments (WCA)
• Industrial Injuries Benefit (IIB)
• Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS)

What we look for:

• 5 years experience post registration/FY1 as a Doctor OR 3 years post registration experience if 2 of those years are working as a Functional Assessor in the UK.
• GMC registered doctor with minimum 1 year’s broad-based clinical experience post-internship/FY1
• Full Right to Work in UK (some visas types are accepted such as Dependant Visa)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable using computer software to type and produce detailed reports
• Experience working with a diverse range of conditions, including complex and mental health cases

This role is a great opportunity for registered Doctors 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: £72,000

• Opportunities to increase Income (Overtime & Incentives)

• Annual Bonus scheme

• Various company-wide benefits that promote financial well-being.

• We offer Doctors 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.

• Private Medical Insurance and Life Insurance

• 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

Apply with CV if interested or call Alvi on 07424 625183