Claims Technician - Domestic Major Loss

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Claims Technician - Domestic Major Loss

Sedgwick – The top UK insurance employer by Insurance Business UK.

• Are you passionate about delivering an excellent service and want a new challenge?

• Do you have great attention to detail?

• Would you enjoy being part of a busy, supportive team which can provide great long term career opportunities?

• Is flexible work/life balance important to you?

 

We now have an opportunity for a talented Claims Handler (Adjusting Executive) to join our highly successful Domestic Major Loss team in LondonRedhill.

Wherever you are in your career, we can support you to achieve your goals. A role with Sedgwick opens the door to many benefits, including:

 

• Structured programmes with clear timescales & transparent career pathways

• Fully supported professional qualifications with rewards

• Truly flexible working

• Competitive salary

• Employee assistance programme for employee wellbeing

• Life assurance

• Group Income Protection

 

Our other benefits include:

• Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions)

• A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme

• Annual leave allowance of 25 days + public holidays

• Voluntary benefits – Purchase extra holidays, dental cover, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, wellbeing and digital GP apps

 

The Role:

The adjusters in the team utilise their renowned expertise on domestic claims of significant value and complexity. The Claims Handler (Adjusting Executive) role is a technical assistant role, designed to support their work throughout the handling of these claims. We're seeking a Claims Handler (Adjusting Executive) to work on a one to one basis with our adjusters, to ensure we can continue to deliver service and handling at the very highest level.

 

You will have the following skills:

 

• The confidence and ability to deliver excellent customer service throughout the lifecycle of the claim

• first class communication skills, both written and verbal

• Competent IT skills, and the capability to maintain electronic files to a high auditable standard, including preparation of claim documentation as required, and as agreed with the adjuster(s)

• A willingness to liaise and build effective working relationships with other internal product lines/departments as required.

• Be able to manage incoming and outgoing correspondence and complete case enquiries as directed by the adjuster, but with the confidence and technical ability to work without direction where appropriate

• Understand the importance of ensuring all stakeholders and parties are kept fully updated at all times, and have a pro-active claims handling philosophy

• The desire and ability to deliver customer service at a very high level, and to meet our goal of making claims easy for everyone

• Provide assistance on site on occasion, including minute taking of meetings, preparation of the action plan, taking statements/photographs etc. as directed

• Accurate daily time recording, delivering a high proportion of chargeable hours demonstrating technical competence

 

This is a great opportunity for those who are motivated by the variety of claims work as well as the opportunity to partner our Domestic Major Loss Adjusters and contribute to the ongoing success of Sedgwick in the UK.

 

Our colleagues adopt a mix of site, home and office-based (London or Redhill) working throughout the week which helps support a healthy work/life balance. When you do spend time in our office, you’ll experience bright and open surroundings which offer excellent areas for collaboration as well as desk space.  It’s an ideal environment for working alongside and interacting with fellow colleagues.

 

Working at Sedgwick

Our company is a place where creative and caring people of all backgrounds can be challenged, grow as individuals, and feel a higher purpose in the unique value they bring and the difference they make in the lives of others. We celebrate our differences; cultivating uniqueness and belonging allows us to connect with our consumers on a personal level, understand our clients’ needs, support the communities in which we operate, and perform at our best.

 

We’re passionate and understanding about our colleagues – so we have built flexibility into our colleague working model. If you wish to work from home, split your working time between the home and office or change your hours so you can collect your children or care for someone in your family, we’re supportive of that. As a flexible employer, we’re happy to discuss options that take into consideration your personal needs for this position during your interview.

 

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to: ID document verification, credit check, address verification, employment verification, employment gap verification, UK DBS, UK financial regulator search, anti-money laundering search, directorship search and global watch list check.

 

Sedgwick is committed to Equal Opportunity and Diversity. We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the ground of race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or disability.

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Sedgwick retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.