Holistic Employment Assessor

DescriptionKM Recruitment is a specialist UK wide recruiter for the Skills and Employability sectors.
Job Title: Holistic Employment Assessor
Location: Leeds - Must be flexible with travel
Salary: £29,000 - £31,000 
Type: Permanent - Full Time AND Part Time applicants considered
The role:
You will be responsible for carrying out holistic online/telephone/face to face assessments with individuals, referred from the DWP who have a physical or mental health condition or disability, offering enhanced support to find or stay in employment. 
Your role will be to build rapid trust and rapport to identify barriers keeping them from the workplace, and make recommendations and adjustments to support their return to the work place.
Duties:
Undertake 1-hour remote assessments with individuals referred from DWP – this will be the only contact you will have with the individual, so ability to build rapid trust and rapport is essential
Identifying barriers keeping them from employment and sensitively recommend solutions ensuring that the participant feels involved and consulted during the process.
Sensitively assess complex individual needs in relation to wide range of conditions and conduct fact finding surrounding barriers and difficulties in the workplace or adjustments needed. 
Write a detailed and highly accurate report in line with the DWP requirements ensuring minimal rejected reports
This will include working closely with suppliers and partners obtaining quotations for required needs.
Essential Criteria:
Minimum 1 year experience in an equivalent role- assessing complex needs.
Experience of supporting individuals with the following needs to include;  Visual, Hearing, Learning Difficulties, Neurodiversity and Muscular Skeletal.
Must have experience of report writing and providing recommendations to patients based on their individual needs.
Educated to degree level in related Health discipline such as Occupational Health/Therapist, Nursing, Physio, Psychology.
Detail orientated
Excellent IT skills and be happy to undertake remote assessments online
Full, clean, UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.
Please note:
 
KM Recruitment receive a high number of applications for each role advertised and although we would like to we are not always able to deliver feedback to unsuccessful candidates
If you have not been contacted within 4 days then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful
Thank you for your interest and keep an eye on our website for future opportunities
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£31,000
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire
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Salary Min29000Salary Max31000Contract TypePermanentSalary TypeAnnumAdded11m 2dID3202835