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August 28, 2025

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Job Title: Nurse Functional Assessor

Location: Inverness

Salary: £39,500 per annum

Job Type: Permanent/ Mon-Fri 9-5 pm

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 physio 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 per annum
Opportunities to increase Income (Overtime & Incentives)
Annual Bonus scheme
various company-wide benefits that promote financial well-being.
We offer Physios 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 physios (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

Please contact Tamara, Fel or Raj on 020 959 2000

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: £39,500 per year

Application question(s):

Do you have 1-year acute board-based experience in the UK?
Do you have a valid HCPC/NMC PIN
Are you comfortable using IT and producing holistic reports?
Do you have reasonably good keyboard/typing skills?
Do you know how many words per minute you can type?
Have you applied for any Assessor role within the last 6 months on Indeed?
Have you applied directly or indirectly on Indeed to Maximus within the last 6 months?
Have you completed Cappfinity within the last 6 months?
Have you been interviewed by Maximus for any assessor role within the last 6 months?
Please confirm your Eligibility to work in the UK (Please confirm status)
Please provide us with your personal email address

Work Location: Hybrid remote in

Reference ID: INDPERM

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: £39,500.00 per year

Application question(s):

Are you comfortable using IT and producing hollistic reports?
Have you applied for any Assessor role within the last 6 months on Indeed ?
Have you applied directly or indirectly on Indeed to Maximus within the last 6 months?
Have you completed Cappfinity within the last 6 months?
Have you been Interviewed for any assessor role within the last 6 months?
Please provide us with your personal email address
Are you a HCPC Physiotherapist with at least 1 years' broad based experience in the UK?
Eligibility to work in the UK. Please confirm your (current status)

Licence/Certification:

HCPC (required)

Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Inverness IV1 1RF

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