# File Handler

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Birmingham, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking a File Handler to join our Military Disease department, specialising in NIHL claims (noise induced hearing loss claims) and potentially other disease cases. As a File Handler, you will handle your own caseload within the department, managing and progressing claims in accordance with appropriate strategies to secure desired outcomes at appropriate levels of profitability.

## Key Responsibilities

- Reviewing documents and preparing reports

- Developing an assistant fee earner

- Dealing with disclosure

- Reviewing evidence (including records)

- Conducting investigations with Insured / obtaining witness statements

- Instructing Experts

- Attending conferences and Trials

- Dealing with routine correspondence

- Court appointments

- Liaising with and taking instructions from Insurers and Insureds

- Ensure adherence to Court timetables

- To ensure compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations

- Adhere to the Keoghs Values.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

- Technically proficient in dealing with NIHL disease cases as a minimum.

- Other short tail disease experience would be desirable.

- Effective negotiator

- Ability to use own initiative

- Good listening and verbal communication skills

- Ability to maintain concentration and pay attention to detail

- Ability to self-organise and self-prioritise

- Ability to work under pressure and to target

- An enthusiastic and hardworking individual

- Good level of IT skills.

## Benefits

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)

- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing

- Death in Service

- Critical Illness Cover

- PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)

- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer

- Employee Resource Groups

- Employee Volunteering Programme

- Cycle to Work Scheme*

- Tech Scheme*

- Season Ticket Loan*

- Gym Flex*

- Access to Online Discount Sites

- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership

- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide

- Discounts at local retail outlets.

## Skills

### Required
- NIHL disease cases
- Effective negotiator
- Good listening and verbal communication skills
- Ability to maintain concentration and pay attention to detail
- Ability to self-organise and self-prioritise
- Ability to work under pressure and to target

### Nice to have
- Other short tail disease experience

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