Customer Service Agent

Job Title**:Medical Legal Case Handler**

**2 Month Fixed Term Contract (£250 Retention Bonus on completion of Contract & £250 Targets are reached)**

Premier Medical Group Ltd are part of the Kuro Health Group and currently have fantastic opportunities available to join the expanding teams.

The key purpose of the Medical Legal Case Handler role is to proactively manage a portfolio of cases through their full life-cycle within given service level standards; to acquire the right medical information from the appropriate expert in line with internal deadlines.

At Premier Medical we are committed to putting clients at the heart of everything we do, whilst retaining and improving our conversion levels and delivering excellent service to our customers.

Our employees are trained to take full ownership of their cases from start to finish therefore establishing a good working relationship both internally and externally.

**Responsibilities**:

- Establish good relationships with all stakeholders to enable a timely and successful conclusion on all aspects of the case(s).
- Manage a portfolio of cases with appropriate interventions.
- Liaise with the client, the instructing party, the expert and the medical-record providers as necessary to balance demands and ensure the case is managed within required service levels.
- Manage the client and instructing parties’ expectations, ensuring any unresolvable or challenging cases are escalated to senior colleagues.
- Process all instructions from the instructing party giving particular attention to time constraints and any special instructions.
- Liaise with the Client to ensure their active participation (particularly in regards acquisition of the LOA and attendance at the Appointment.
- Arrange a suitable appointment time and location for each client with the appropriate medical expert, taking appropriate steps to ensure appointments are attended.
- Obtain valid authority from the client to enable you to request their medical records.
- Request and verify appropriate medical records from each Provider
- Dispatch of soft-copy records
- Liaise with Others in the business to acquire, store and dispatch hard-copy records
- Employ the optimum means of communication to achieve the required outcome.
- Ensure communication is clear, concise and appropriate to the audience.
- Draft correspondence as appropriate ensuring good levels of comprehension, grammar and spelling.
- Ensure the Report is comprehensively checked to identify issues which fail to meet the required standard.
- Secure a quality, court-ready report in a timely fashion, ensuring the report meets the specific requirements of the instruction.
- Be mindful of costs incurred (expert costs, DNA fees, High or additional fees, etc) keeping such costs to a minimum, and ensure agreement is secured for the recovery of our invoices.
- Maintain a record of the case history, ensuring that all notes and actions taken are recorded on the case management software.
- Support others in the management of their cases

We encourage our employees to demonstrate a positive, can-do attitude and to take ownership of personal development and progression.

**Training**

Initally you will be office based and receive socially distanced one to one training in our spacious boardroom, where you will be introduced gradually to the different aspects of the Medical Legal Case Handler role**. **There may also be the opportunity to partly work from home once the training period is completed successfully (length of training period dependent on experience and skill)
**Employee benefits**

Interviews will be held virtually via video call with our HR Department at a time convenient for you.

**Job Types**: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

3 Months Fixed Term Contract

**Salary**: From £18,525.00 per year

Work remotely
- No

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary

**Salary**: £18,525.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
COVID-19 considerations:
We are committed to the health and safety of our employees and measures have been put in place to help with the prevention of Covid-19 such as hand sanitiser stations, social distancing measures, Mask wearing on site, PPE and virtual meetings.