Occupational Therapist

Location: Brighton

Starting Salary: £41,000 & Benefits

We are looking for a driven Occupational Therapist who is seeking a new challenge and looking to improve their work-life balance. Do you want to use your clinical knowledge, skills and decision making abilities in a new environment?

Meridian Business Support is offering an excellent opportunity to work as a Disability Assessor. You would be conducting face to face assessments with Personal Independence Payment claimants on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and produce a report that will be used in the decision making process.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to enhance their assessment skills as well as continuing to develop their clinical skills. Full comprehensive training is provided with on going support throughout your career. There are a number of different progression avenues within the organisation due to the growing sector so there is plenty of opportunity for future progression within the role.

Key Information:

Must be HCPC registered
At least 2 years Post Graduate experience
Must be IT competent - typing, MS packages
Strong interpersonal skills
No experience necessary as an assessor - full comprehensive training is provided with full salary from day one.
Full time and Part time available. Benefits include:

After 9 months salary will increase by £1000, After 18 months £1000
Excellent work life balance (Monday to Friday) - no nights, weekends or bank holidays are required
Annually salary reviews and performance based salary uplifts
Fantastic prospect for promotion and professional growth
Professional body fee reimbursement (HCPC)
Private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection insurance, pension scheme, personal accident insurance and professional indemnity insurance
CPD and re-validation support with protection and training on a regular basisIf you are interested in the Disability Assessor position or would like to have a confidential discussion to find out further details, please contact Ellouise Upton-Edwards by email on e. upton-edwards @ meridianbs. co. uk at Meridian Business Support / (phone number removed). Alternatively, if you apply to this advert someone from the Meridian team will be in touch.

Meridian Business Support is acting on behalf of our Client as a Recruitment Agency