Insurance Claims Handler
Finance, Audit

JOB 1538

Contract type - Permanent
Contract hours - Full time / 37 hours per week

Stockport Council is pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for someone to join their busy Insurance team. Part of the insurance team's role is to handle liability claims on behalf of the Council and its partners from members of the public and employees. The key requirement of the role is to provide an efficient and effective insurance claims handling service for Council Services, affiliated companies and external customers.

You will be expected to manage a caseload of EL/PL claims, interpret results of investigations, applying the circumstances to legal precedence, research case law and quantify damages including the collation and assessment of a range of factual information.

The role involves liaison with Directorates and affiliated companies, and in particular regarding highways claims, to ensure effective management of claims and effective review of outcomes and lessons learnt.

You must be a confident individual and must deal directly with the authority's instructed solicitors in the event of litigation. This will involve providing instructions with regards to the progress of the litigated claim ensuring that the relevant timescales are adhered to.

You must have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, together with the ability to work independently, as well as part of a team.

To find out more about the activities this role will undertake, please see the Finance Function of the Annex in the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

Please note the person specification has been updated on the 22nd March 17

To apply for this vacancy please follow this link https://jobs.stockport.gov.uk/

Stockport Council - Valuing Diversity

Job Description/Person Specification.doc
Location
Stockport Town Hall
Vacancy Description
 
JOB 1538

Contract type - Permanent
Contract hours - Full time / 37 hours per week

Stockport Council is pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for someone to join their busy Insurance team. Part of the insurance team's role is to handle liability claims on behalf of the Council and its partners from members of the public and employees. The key requirement of the role is to provide an efficient and effective insurance claims handling service for Council Services, affiliated companies and external customers.

You will be expected to manage a caseload of EL/PL claims, interpret results of investigations, applying the circumstances to legal precedence, research case law and quantify damages including the collation and assessment of a range of factual information.

The role involves liaison with Directorates and affiliated companies, and in particular regarding highways claims, to ensure effective management of claims and effective review of outcomes and lessons learnt.

You must be a confident individual and must deal directly with the authority's instructed solicitors in the event of litigation. This will involve providing instructions with regards to the progress of the litigated claim ensuring that the relevant timescales are adhered to.

You must have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, together with the ability to work independently, as well as part of a team.

To find out more about the activities this role will undertake, please see the Finance Function of the Annex in the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

Please note the person specification has been updated on the 22nd March 17

To apply for this vacancy please follow this link https://jobs.stockport.gov.uk/

Stockport Council - Valuing Diversity

Job Description/Person Specification.doc