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Form of workJOB TITLE: Senior Medical Underwriter - Scottish Widows
SALARY: £42,120 - £63,180
LOCATION: Nationwide
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours
About this opportunity
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Medical Underwriter within our Scottish Widows Protect Underwriting team. Scottish Widows Protect underwriting is a key risk process to support business growth and provide a comprehensive underwriting service for our customers. Making the right decisions for our protection customers is key to supporting our Protection strategy and business growth and providing a superior support service.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
With over five million customers, and having celebrated our 200th anniversary in 2015, Scottish Widows is one of the UK's most trusted Life, Pensions, and Investments providers.
We want to ensure this success continues and grows. In Insurance Customer Delivery, we contribute to this success by providing critical services to our customers and supporting them with their insurance needs, whilst ensuring the customer is at the heart of our business.
The Group is striving to be the best bank for customers and to help Britain prosper. We're all responsible for the long-term success of the company - through our individual roles, activities, and achievements. Here in Insurance Customer Delivery, we provide critical services to our customers, supporting them with their insurance needs, along with a focus on ensuring the customer is at the heart of our business.
What you'll need
We'll need you to have previous medical underwriting experience in a Life and Disability Underwriting role, as you'll be responsible for the assessment of life and disability applications. You'll assess information from differing sources, such as GP medical reports, and information provided by applicants. It's a varied and interesting role, where you'll be making decisions on the best possible terms we can offer to our customers.
Your strong written and oral communication skills will be paramount, to enable you to articulate the reasons behind your decisions to both customers and advisors. You'll need to show care and empathy when liaising with our customers, ensuring you're sensitive to their circumstances.
Skills / Knowledge
Knowledge and experience of the Protection Market in a Life and Disability Medical Underwriter role.
Understanding of medical terminology and ability to interpret medical information.
Excellent written and oral communication skills to articulate reasons for decisions to our customers.
Excellent relationship skills to liaise with Reinsurers, Chief Medical Officer, Intermediaries, and key partners.
Excellent analytical skills.
Ability for succinct and accurate records of underwriting summaries and decisions.
Ability to take ownership of individual workload and ensure timely completion
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Support with working from home, so we don't necessarily need you to be in the office unless there is a clear purpose or business requirement.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
Apply today and find out more
