Lead File Handler

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Liverpool

Description

• As part of our on-going growth strategy, we are looking for a Lead File Handler to join our Industrial Disease team in Liverpool to help service their ever-growing roster of clients across Industrial Disease.
• Take ownership of your own caseload, including NIHL and other disease claims, while making a real impact on clients’ outcomes.
• Play a key role in shaping team strategy, mentoring junior colleagues, and identifying opportunities for innovation and growth.
• Join a dynamic, supportive, and sociable team with excellent career development opportunities

Key Responsibilities

• Overall conduct of allocated matters fixing strategy and liaising directly with clients
• Responsibility for Assistants & their development 
• Ensure adherence with court timetables by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
• Ensuring experts are instructed in sufficient time by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
• Attending conferences with Counsel and clients
• Dealing with routine correspondence
• Compliance with MI
• To ensure compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations
• Adhere to the Keoghs Values

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Demonstrates strong technical proficiency in handling NIHL disease claims as a Strong technical proficiency in NIHL claims; experience in other disease matters is a plus.
• Effective negotiator with excellent interpersonal, listening, and communication skills.
• Highly self-motivated, able to prioritise, organise, and work under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
• Proactive contributor to team growth, sharing knowledge, supporting training, and improving processes.

Job Benefits

• 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