PIP Paramedic Functional Assessor – Hybrid, Preston

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PIP Paramedic Functional Assessor – Hybrid, Preston

Client: Maximus

Location: Preston, United Kingdom

Job Reference: 1731d20955d9

Job Views: 95

Posted: 22.01.2025

Expiry Date: 08.03.2025

Job Description:

General Information

Job Posting Title: PIP Paramedic Functional Assessor – Hybrid

Date: Friday, June 14, 2024

City: Preston

Country: United Kingdom

Working Time: Full-time

Description & Requirements

PIP - Paramedic Functional Assessor

Working Hours: Monday to Friday - 09:00 – 17:00

Salary: £37,800

Do good. Be great as a paramedic.

Are you a Paramedic seeking flexible working, a better work-life balance, and a rewarding career outside of the ambulance service?

About the Role

As a Paramedic Functional Assessor at Maximus, you'll use your clinical responder experience to understand how a person's disability or health condition affects their daily life. You’ll work on complex cases involving physical and mental health conditions and chronic pain disorders, while your compassion and experience helps customers move forward with their lives.

The role can be both challenging and rewarding, which is why we provide a tailored training programme to help you thrive. You'll begin with 6 weeks of training before assessing customers and have ongoing support and mentorship in your role with us.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Conduct telephone, video, or face-to-face assessments to understand how a person’s disability or health condition affects their daily life.
2. Produce Personal Independent Payment (PIP) reports to help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) determine a person’s eligibility for benefits.
3. Develop your clinical knowledge and assessment skills with the support of regular feedback and supervision.

Requirements

1. Valid HCPC registration number.
2. At least 1 year of broad post-registration experience gained within or outside of an NHS ambulance trust.
3. You MUST have the right to work in the UK – we cannot offer sponsorships.
4. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
5. Comfortable using computer software to type and produce detailed reports.

What We Offer

1. £37,800 salary with the opportunity for a £1,500 additional skills allowance.
2. Flexible working – full-time, part-time, and hybrid.
3. No bank holidays, evenings, or weekends.
4. Leading maternity and paternity paid leave.
5. Bank holidays plus 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy or sell 5 days.
6. Ongoing CPD, clinical development, and reimbursed validation fees.
7. £2,000 for referring a friend.
8. Life insurance and Medicash Healthcare Cash Plan.
9. In-person clinical conferences held annually.

Join us and become part of a team that's making a real difference to people’s lives.