Home Claims Property Complaint Handler

Lorien; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking several Home Claims Property Complaint Handlers in Leeds for an initial 6-month contract. The role requires experience in customer service with a focus on complaints handling within the Home and Property sectors. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a passion for delivering a great customer experience while navigating regulatory guidelines. This remote-first position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on complaint resolutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in handling home claims property complaints within financial services.
• Strong understanding of complaint handling regulatory requirements.
• Passion for delivering excellent customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Achieve good outcomes for customers, adhering to FCA Consumer Duty.
• Conduct thorough investigations of complaints, considering customer impact.
• Maintain consistency and clarity in complaint files.

Skills

Customer service experience

Analytical skills

Complaint handling

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Self-management

Job description

Home Claims Property Complaint Handler

Remote First Working

Financial Services.

Lorien's leading Insurance Client is looking for several Complaints Handlers to join them on an initial 6month contract.

This role is looking for people who have experience within customer service, specifically complaints handling within Home and Property sectors.

As a case handler, responsible for home claims property complaints, you’ll own the problem and use your analytical skills to investigate and gather evidence on what’s happened. Speaking up and asking questions, whilst remaining impartial, will help you determine what the right resolution is. And doing all of this, in an efficient and prompt way, within regulatory guidelines, will help get things back on track for our customers.

What you'll be doing :

• Achieve good outcomes for your customers that are right first time, whilst adhering to all FCA Consumer Duty and regulatory requirements, and ensure that these are in line with our assurance handling requirements
• Take the initiative by being relentless in solving problems, making thorough investigations including understanding the customer impact and any vulnerability, to support you making informed decisions on what is right for both the customer and the company
• Follow our problem handling standards including evidencing and record keeping ensuring all complaint files are consistent, clear and easy to understand the story, for any reader, internal and external
• Achieve efficiency and meet productivity targets in complaint handling and prompt customer resolutions by adhering to the structured day and task management process and customer contact guidelines
• Ensure you keep your product knowledge up to date through effective use and review of policies, processes, and tools available to you
• Provide appropriate and effective feedback, both positive and developmental, to help improve frontline business and associated service providers complaint-handling
• Achieve and maintain the required level of performance against KPI minimum standards
• Strive for favourable FOS upheld rates, while reviewing your own and the wider department’s decisions, whether overturned or upheld, to apply learnings to future cases

What we're looking for :

• Must have previous experience in handling home claims property complaints within the financial services general insurance industry, as well as a good understanding of complaint handling regulatory requirements.
• A passion for delivering an excellent customer experience and confident in dealing with customers over the phone or in writing.
• An inquisitive mindset, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to impartially review complaints, and all relevant evidence and make decisions that ensure a fair outcome for customers is essential
• Be able to liaise between our multiple business areas and service providers confidently, to influence people and situations to achieve fair outcomes
• Excellent listening and empathy skills as well as written and verbal communication abilities and ability to construct written final decisions
• Effectively manage a caseload of customer complaints, being able to plan, prioritise and achieve deadlines
• Ability to self-manage, motivate, and work on your own initiative