What we can offer you

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Empower your life

At Independent Assessment Services we make sure that health professionals maintain a better work-life balance, thanks to regular working hours and flexible working arrangements, a range of benefits like a pension scheme, private medical insurance and a friendly, forward-thinking working environment. Make a change to work for us and you can make a big difference to your lifestyle and your daily routine.

Change your working pattern to suit you and your life

Through Flex, you can choose what days of the week you want to work and how much work you complete on those days to earn additional days off.  Delivering an excellent service to claimants remains our priority so in return, we ask that you complete the required number of assessments and deliver exceptional reports for our claimants.

 

Take charge of your career

Whatever your previous experience, working for Independent Assessment Services gives you the opportunity to broaden your skills, and we support our people to achieve this with training and a clear clinical career path. We have a culture of continuous improvement, where you can also develop managerial skills, keep up your qualifications, and receive excellent support and training.

Caring for others

We treat claimants with compassion and respect and strive to deliver fair and accurate assessments. As a disability assessor, your experience and clinical skills, along with the training and support we provide, will equip you to use your expertise in a new way. You’ll interpret clinical information and medical evidence to write reports that help the Department for Work and Pensions and Northern Ireland Department for Communities understand how claimants’ health conditions or disabilities affect their daily lives, so they can make a decision on whether a person is eligible for the benefit. 

Sharing your skills

By bringing your expertise to the team, you can make a difference to the way we work. At Independent Assessment Services we believe in teamwork and support, and by sharing your skills with others you can improve the service we offer to claimants. To help us deliver to the highest possible standard, we need people like you.

Employee Benefits

There are many reasons health professionals flourish at Independent Assessment Services. However, the skills you’ll develop, the work-life balance you’ll achieve, and the people you’ll help are only a small part of the appeal of working for us. Here are some of the key employee benefits you’ll receive:

Annual Leave
25 days’ Annual Leave each year, with Bank and Public Holidays added on top, and the option to buy up to 10 additional holidays or sell up to five of them back through our flexible benefits programme. 

Pension
Company pension stakeholder scheme, where we match all your contributions up to a maximum of 10% of your basic salary.

Professional Registration
Reimbursement of your annual professional registration fee.

Life Assurance
Four times your salary for a stakeholder pension member, or one times your salary for non-pension scheme members (both subject to Medical Underwriting).

Private Medical Insurance
Single employee cover through AXA-PPP Healthcare, with the option to also cover your dependents.

Medical Indemnity
Complimentary medical indemnity insurance covered under a corporate policy for all Independent Assessment Services work.

Health Screening
Free health checks every two years for employees with more than one year’s service.

Employee Assistance Programme
Support and assistance to employees and their resident families regarding personal or work issues.

Training and Development
Continuous Professional Development and in-house training.

Company Share Scheme
Available periodically and allows employees to purchase company shares at discounted prices.

Prosper Benefits Portal
Receive discounts, vouchers, cash back and other offers from thousands of major retailers. Provides a platform to save tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) on a new bike.

Additional flexible benefits
Chosen annually, these can be tailored to suit your lifestyle. Benefits include travel insurance, dental insurance, critical illness cover and a cycle to work scheme.

IAS Mental Health Allies
Working in partnership with Mental Health at Work to deliver a bespoke mental health awareness programme that’s tailored to our colleagues, we’ve created a Mental Health Allies Network. Our allies offer colleagues a safe space for confidential conversations about anything - listening, signposting, supporting, and empowering them to understand what they need to improve their mental health.

Award-winning Employee Support Networks
As we strive to be diverse and inclusive, you'll have access to a wide range of employee support networks that will be on hand to advise and support you in different areas including: multicultural, armed forces, multi-generational, disability, gender, LGBT+, return to work, and environmental.

In addition to these employee networks, we also have mental health, wellbeing, carers, menopause and diversity and inclusion allies support initiatives in place.

Our diversity accolades include:

• Awarded Stonewall Gold Award 2022 and ranked #40 in the Stonewall UK Top 100 Employers list for 2020
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident employer
• Shortlisted at Women in Tech Excellence Awards
• Times Top 50 Employer for Women in 2019, 2020 and 2021
• Gold accredited for Armed Forces Covenant
• Named by Business in the Community as a 'Best Employer for Race' and being a signatory of their Race at Work Charter and Change the Race Ratio
• Member of 30% Club committed to gender diversity in senior management.

Accessibility

People access things in different ways and what's accessible for one person, might not be accessible for someone else. We listen to our colleagues to identify potential barriers and create an environment where everyone feels comfortable to talk about their disability and access needs, whatever they may be. Not all disabilities are visible and we’re committed to creating a workplace that is open and inclusive, where everyone feels like they belong.