In an effort to help our readers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis, we have compiled a list of jobs currently hiring in Wells to give you a helping hand in your job hunt.

Disability Assessor - Wells

Are you an experienced healthcare professional looking for a fresh career challenge and an opportunity to develop your clinical skills?

We are looking for qualified Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Paramedics and Nurses with clinical knowledge and experience for an exciting new role when you are ready for a change, right now or in the near future.

In this varied role as a Disability Assessor you will:

Meet people with a wide range of conditions and disabilities through face-to-face consultations

Carry out visits to claimant's homes or welcome them to the consultation centre

Conduct consultations with people seeking PIP (Personal Independence Payment)

Draw on your experience as a clinical expert in your area. It is not essential but you may currently hold a membership to CSP, CoP, RCOT, NMC or RCN as a Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Nurse or Paramedic

Use your expert clinical knowledge and guidelines set out by the DwP to make accurate evaluations

Expand your medical knowledge as you handle a diverse case load to produce detailed reviews.

Every case is different, and no two days are ever the same, so to thrive in this role as a Disability Assessor you will need to:

Demonstrate a minimum of two years' experience as a Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Paramedic or Nurse

Be HCPC/NMC registered

Have a valid driver's licence

Enjoy working with claimants (patients) on a one to one basis

Have good communication and strong interpersonal skills

Be able to write 30 words per minute on a keyboard accurately and have the ability to type notes during a conversation.

We will provide all the training you will need to transition into this new role as a Disability Assessor through a 25-week induction programme and ongoing peer support from a range of health professionals. You'll find our thorough in-house development is well over the required CPD hours to revalidate and maintain your professional clinical registration.

In return you can expect excellent benefits, including:

25 days' annual leave, with the option to buy 10 and sell up to five days

Employer-matched pension scheme, up to 10 per cent

Life assurance, private medical insurance and medical indemnity insurance

Reimbursement of your annual professional registration fee

Health screening every two years (after one year's service)

Thorough in-house and professional training and development

Flexible benefits tailored to your needs including travel or dental insurance, cycle to work scheme and more.

We know you want to use your medical skills to support the nation at this difficult time, so we can offer various start dates for when you are ready.

Rest assured, during the recruitment and onboarding process we will be adhering to the social distancing guidance from the government - there will be no face to face interviews.

Independent Assessment Services are a Disability Confident Employer and in The Times Top 50 employers for women. They also have award-winning Employee Support Networks - to encourage a diverse team and make sure everyone feels welcome and included, there are seven Employee Support Networks for various groups: Members of the Armed Forces (Armed Forces Network, which received the Golden Award 2016), Generational Diversity (Aeon Network), Ability (Adapt Network), Gender (Aspire Network), LGBT + and friends (Pride Network), Cultural (Together Network), and Returners to Work.

Job specifics:

Permanent, full-time. Salary £35,000 per annum.

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Senior Accountant, Farming and Rural Focus - Wells

A growing and highly successful accountancy practice, based in Wells, is looking to bolster their teams with the addition of a Senior Accountant, as a result of growth and expansion. The opportunity and firm provides excellent prospects to further your career, providing client contact and technical accounting and advisory skill development as you develop within this firm and role.

Client details:

This growing and successful Wells-based accountancy practice has developed a leading reputation in the provision of accounting, planning and advisory services to varied clients. As a result of ongoing growth, an opportunity is available for a career focused and ambitious Senior Accountant to join the team focused within the firm's farming and rural related specialist teams. The firm provides an environment where you will have a clear path to progress.

Description:

Joining the team as a Senior Accountant - farming and rural focus, you will take responsibility for the hands on provision of accounting, tax and advisory/planning services to a wide spectrum of farming and rural related sector clients. Alongside providing a quality compliance service, you will be encouraged to further your career, with increasing client management responsibility and look to build relationships with your clients with the potential for involvement in added value, advisory projects as you develop within the firm and role. You will prepare accounts/ tax and provide other services and build relationships with your clients, working with managers/directors on more advisory focused work as you progress within the role. Given the growth in the business and structure of the firm, excellent prospects are on offer to develop in this leading firm towards management and beyond.

Profile:

You will be any of AAT and/or, ACA/ACCA qualified, with a background in accountancy practice having worked in the sector probably for at least three years or considerably more, developing your career to Senior Accountant levels. You will have a career background in the accounting profession and bring a strong accounts preparation background, tax experience and wider technical skills and be looking to further your career in the profession with a clear lean and demonstrable interest in developing your career working with farming and rural related sector clients.

Job specifics:

Permanent, full-time. Salary £26,000 to £34,000 per annum.

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Class Teacher - Wells

Primary teaching jobs for the new academic year.

Your new company:

Here at HAYS Education we represent a large number of fantastic schools and want to start speaking with teachers who will be looking for new opportunities for the new academic year. Teachers are always widely in demand to work in a variety of schools in the Wells and wider Somerset area.

Your new role:

Your job will be teaching, encouraging and supervising pupils taking on the role of Class Teacher, while keeping with the ethos of the school, delivering lessons. It is the perfect way to get yourself known in some brilliant schools in the area in which they often lead to more long-term or permanent opportunities.

What you'll need to succeed:

As a Hays Education Primary Teacher it is essential you have: Qualified Teacher Status, experience in teaching primary schools in the last two years, good behaviour management and a passion for teaching in primary environment.

What you'll get in return:

A competitive daily rate, access to our Refer a Friend incentive, regular contact from your own personal consultant and ongoing career support. Access to a wide range of teaching opportunities. Flexibility to suit your own work/life balance.

Job specifics:

Temporary, full-time. Competitive salary.

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