Motor Claims Handler
£24,100 - £27,100
Contract Type: Permanent,
Part Time, Full Time, flexible options available
Bournemouth
Closing Date for applications: Monday 19th August 2024
Successful completion of their competency pay progression scheme will see you earning £27,100. This is typically achieved within a 30-month period, however, is dependent on your individual development and you may progress more quickly within a supportive and nurturing environment.
Our client is looking for resilient, adaptable and motivated individuals who have a confident telephone manner and excellent communication skills. If you are naturally inquisitive and enjoy problem solving, with an ability to multitask, then this is the environment for you!
Their Motor Claims department is there to help and support customers who have been involved in accidents, ensuring their claims are handled accurately and efficiently. The Motor Claims department is a supportive and collaborative environment where you will have ownership of all aspects of a claim, from gathering information from the Policy Holder to engaging with external parties including lawyers, accident management companies and third-party insurers to name a few.
As a Claims Handler, our client encourages you to work proactively and be accountable, managing your allocations efficiently and prioritising urgent caseloads. You will be passionate about ensuring the right outcomes for both the customer and our client. They will teach you all the skills you need to allow you to make informed strategic decisions.
Your main duties as a Claims Handler are:
- Manage a portfolio of fault and non-fault motor claims from cradle to grave, ensuring the customer's requirements and expectations are properly framed and understood.
- Ensure that claims are handled in the correct technical manner, in accordance with policy cover, legal liability, and departmental fraud and ensure compliance with company policy and external regulators.
- Manage clear communications with our client's customers and a variety of third parties, both verbal and written communication including letter writing.
- Proactive use of the telephone (outbound calling) to engage with external parties in order to move the claim on.
- Proactively manage an allocation of claims alongside dealing with postal and incoming telephony demand.
- Protect claims cost and take ownership of making informed decisions relating to payment of claims, liability, settlement costs, and complaints.
- Prioritising claims, ensuring urgent matters are managed efficiently to ensure that they provide customers with a high-quality claims service that strives for excellence and deal in a cost-effective manner.
- Identify the indicators of fraud and use questioning/investigation techniques to decide if the claim can be progressed to payment or repudiation.
- Ensure all supporting administrative tasks are completed.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience you will need in your Claims Handler role:
- Be an excellent communicator with strong attention to detail and accuracy to deal effectively with all contacts ranging from the general public through to lawyers.
- The ability to influence and persuade others to your way of thinking.
- Experienced in multitasking and prioritising your own workload with the ability to make decisions under pressure.
- Computer literate with the ability to learn new systems.
- Experience delivering customer service.
- Positive attitude with a flexible and resilient approach to change and teamwork.
- Minimum C Grade in Mathematics and English - or equivalent.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Motor Claims Handler role in Bournemouth. Our client offers a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped them achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
- Flexible Working
- Smart Working gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and they offer all their vacancies part-time/job-shares). They offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
- Supporting your Health
– Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, and Well Being Activities – Yoga Mindfulness.
- Supporting your Wealth
– Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, and Employee Loans.
- Supporting you at Work
- Well-being activities, Yoga, Mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
- Supporting you and your Family
– Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
- Benefits for Them
– Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
- Getting Around
– Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, and Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
- Get some Tech
– Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
- Supporting you back to work
- Return to work programme after maternity leave.
Our client:
Our client is one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Their people help them to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service they provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, they encourage anyone to apply. They're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer, which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria.
Their aim is to have great people everywhere in their business and are always looking for outstanding people to join them. Most roles across our client allow a pr