Job title: Disability Assessor – PIP/WCA
Location: Bristol
Employment type: Full-time/Part-time
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, no weekends or bank holidays
Salary: £40,000-£42,000
Benefits:
£40,000 – £42,000 starting salary (pro rata for part-time)
- Guaranteed salary increases at 6 and 12 months
- Up to 10% annual performance bonus
- Monday–Friday schedule with no unpaid overtime
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata)
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Private healthcare package
- Retail discounts at 1,000+ major brands
- Paid volunteering day
- ShareSave scheme
- No nights, no weekends, no on-call
- Structured 9–5 working pattern
- Homeworking available after training
- A fresh clinical challenge focused on assessment and impact
- Supportive multidisciplinary team environment
- Part-time flexibility now available
The role:
We are looking for qualified health care professionals to join as a disability assessor, carrying out assessments for PIP or WCA on behalf of the DWP. You will move away from frontline treatment into a position that combines your clinical expertise with analytic report writing.
This is a hybrid role. Following an initial training period (fully home based for 6-12 weeks), you will move to a 50/50 split spending approximately half your working week in the office and the other half at home.
Key responsibilities:
- Conduct thorough assessments with claimants via face-to-face, telephone, or video appointments.
- Explore how a claimants physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments affect their functional ability in daily living or work related environments.
- Use clinical reasoning to probe and clarify inconsistencies in medical evidence, ensuring all relevant information is captured.
- Adapt different communication styles to support claimants with anxiety, hearing loss, language barriers etc
- Produce clear, concise, and evidence based reports to support the DWP in their decision making.
- Complete quality reports (PIP-3 per day) (WCA- 5 per day) within required time scales
- Maintain objectivity and impartially throughout.
Skills & Experience:
- We do not offer or provide sponsorship
- Qualified health care professional with current, unrestricted registration with the NMC or HCPC.
- Minimum 12 months of post-registration clinical experience
- Competent IT skills and the ability to learn new systems quickly
- Excellent communication skills
How to apply: Apply here, email dcummins@everpoolrecruitment.com or call Demi on 07788 978 466.
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