Please ensure when submitting your application that you include full details of your employment history with accurate start and end dates.
Please note: Although this post will be exclusively working from home, you may on occasions be required to attend base at Beckford Street, Hamilton in line with demands of the service.
Please note for information, Interviews will be held at Beckford Street on the 9th, 10th, 16th, 17th or 23rd February
There are currently vacancies available within the following health board region;
1. Lanarkshire
We’re inviting applications from Registered Nurses (Adult, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities), Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Paramedics to deliver high-quality disability assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
You will deliver assessments with the highest standards of respect, dignity, and clinical professionalism, ensuring a consistent and reliable service for a vulnerable client group. The role involves conducting telephone or video consultations with individuals applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), assessing a broad range of physical, mental, cognitive, and sensory conditions.
Using empathetic communication and strong critical thinking skills, you will assess the functional impact of the claimant’s condition on their daily living and mobility. Based on the findings, you will prepare a comprehensive, impartial report for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
You will receive up 6- 8 weeks of structured in person and remote training, supported by our dedicated in-house training team. Throughout this period, you will progress through a carefully designed learning pathway that promotes both professional and personal development, enhances your clinical reasoning, critical analysis, assessment, and report-writing skills, and encourages collaborative learning through peer support and mentoring.
Following completion of the initial training programme, you will begin delivering remote telephone assessments from home. We provide ongoing guidance, coaching, and feedback to ensure you feel fully supported in your role.
What we'll need you to bring
2. You must hold a valid NMC or HCPC registration and be educated to diploma or degree level. A minimum of one-year post-registration experience is required, along with strong clinical knowledge covering a broad range of conditions and disabilities.
3. Have an understanding of UK Welfare Legislation and Welfare Reform
4. Have excellent listening, communication, and interpersonal skills
5. Have the ability to work in a sensitive manner with respect to diversity and gender, ethnic, culture and philosophical issues with a wide range of individuals.
6. Have strong time management abilities
7. Have the ability to work effectively under time constraints
8. Have proficient IT and typing skills
9. Have an awareness of audit processes
Contract, Location and Working Pattern
10. Permanent
11. Full time
12. 37 hours Monday-Thursday 09:00-17:00 Friday- 09:00-16:30
This role will be predominantly home-based. A quiet, confidential, and dedicated workspace is essential. You may also be required to attend the Beckford Street base in Hamilton, for training and service requirements, therefore live no longer than 1 hour travel distance from Hamilton.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
Some of the role and NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
13. Working from home
14. Formal DWP disability analyst accreditation
15. Comprehensive training
16. On-going in house trainer/mentor support
17. A dedicated mentor
18. 4-8 weekly rolling coaching programme
19. Your professional revalidation requirements
20. 27 days annual leave in your first year rising to 33 after ten years
21. 8 days public holiday
The post start date is 20th April 2026. Training will commence on this date and run for approximately 6–8 weeks. Please note that annual leave cannot be accommodated during the training period.
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’