Fee Earner - Wakefield, United Kingdom - Minster Law

Minster Law

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Wakefield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a top 100 law firm based in Wakefield. We are looking to hire Fee Earner to join our MOJ Bike (Fast Track) Team.

About us

Minster Law Solicitors is wholly owned by BHL UK Ltd, a UK subsidiary of BHL, a highly successful, cash generative and profitable international Insurance Services Group.

Established in 2006, Minster Law is one of the UK's leading personal injury claims providers to the motor insurance market.

Our Values

When you join the team here at Minster, you will be joining an Investor's in People Platinum accredited organisation, which demonstrates our commitment to high performance through great people and a strong company culture that focuses on trust, respect, openness and inclusion.

Our values are 'stand together', 'be courageous' and 'find a way' and this embodies everything we do.

The Role

To deliver robust quality claims handling, with a key focus on customer outcomes for Minster Law clients, to generate fee income and contribute to the general success of the business.

The successful applicant will manage a caseload of RTA MOJ Portal cases, predominantly for bikers.

Team allocation will be determined by business need and your current experience, knowledge and skill set. Types of cases managed may vary from time to time a which may include both bike and car customers.

Core Responsibilities:

Responsible for a highvolume caseload of RTA MOJ Portal claims, following the MOJ process and best practise, in order to progress your claims from inception through to settlement.
Ownership of the client relationship ensuring that the right outcome is achieved, and the client's claim is optimised.
Ability to deal with complex multisite injuries cases
Assess quantum to include reviewing medical reports and researching and obtaining relevant case law.
Drafting schedules of special damages and assessing suitable awards for compensation for pain, suffering and loss of amenity, and other general damages.
Negotiate with third parties to ensure we receive the best settlement figure for each of our clients in a proactive and timely manner, identify litigation opportunities where appropriate.
Ability to work with a taskbased case management system to ensure regular contact is maintained with all clients, providing exceptional customer service and managing their expectations.
Perform to a high level in a target orientated environment.
Ability to run a litigated case under Part 8B of the Civil Procedure Rules.

Alternative Titles:

Case Handler, Legal Executive, Solicitor

How we work
We encourage and support agile working to allow our colleagues to get the best out of their day.

As long as we continue to ensure that our customers, partners, business and colleagues needs are met, we believe colleagues can work where they feel will be most productive - at home, in the office or other suitable venue.

By allowing our colleagues the ability to work in an agile environment, we believe this encourages and creates a more fluid approach to how we work, to stimulate productivity, creativity and engagement.

Our Benefits

We also offer great benefits at Minster so we can reward our colleagues for the great work they do and to say thank you.

This includes a generous bonus scheme, matched pension scheme, insurance benefits, health and wellbeing support, discounts, regular reward incentives, study sponsorship and great social events.

Giving Back (CSR)

Being able to support our local communities is important to us and is a key part of who we are.

We have a strong Corporate Social Responsibility agenda and a host of activities to support this. This includes working with charities and groups that help to improve the lives in our local communities.

This commitment to improving and supporting our local communities is embedded into our working lives so much that we actively encourage our colleagues to spend one day a year volunteering by giving them a day off.

Person Specification
Essential

Previous experience of managing your own caseload of Fast Track RTA Claims up to the value of £25,000.
A working knowledge of the preaction protocol for low value personal injury claims in road traffic accidents and Part 8B of the Civil Procedure Rules.
Accountable for achieving objectives in a fastpaced environment whilst maintaining high standards of work quality and client care.
Excellent negotiator with strong communication skills.
Competent working with a case management system and good knowledge of Excel and Word.
Good attention to detail and organisational skills.
Customer centric approach.

Desirable

Robust able to deal with changing circumstances and challenging situations whilst still achieving objectives.
Previous experience of managing caseload of Bike/Bicycle claims
Team Player and acts as a role model to your colleagues, working together to achieve business and team goals.
Maintains