Senior Claims Manager Civil Claims SA

Avant is Australias leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 opportunity is available for a Senior Claims Manager to join our Adelaide team for a full-time permanent role. The role will report directly to the Claims Team Manager. This role is perfect for a practising solicitor who is tired of billable hours and looking for true worklife key responsibilities include:Managing member claims and investigations to support our members;Provide guidance advice and support in the indemnification of claims;Proactively formulate a claims management strategy for the member to achieve the best possible outcome;Partner with Solicitors in the support of our members claim as required;Contribute to Avants provision of claims services including special projects writing articles and presentations; andParticipate in the resourcing of the medico-legal advice be successful in this role you will have:Tertiary qualifications in law or health; Solicitors with a valid practising certificate will be highly regarded;Previous demonstrated experience in insurance claims management;A strong understanding of current health and insurance legislation;A strong focus on time management and work management;Excellent communication and relationship building skills;Proven ability to work in an electronic document management system; andStrong relationship building and negotiation work at AvantAvant now represents 90000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and a mutual organisation owned by members and run purely for their benefit our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality safety and professionalism in medicine through delivering education and research value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with flexible work career development and internal mobility flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Health and wellbeing programs Tertiary Education Sponsorship and have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of prefer to deal with candidates directly. If you have any queries regarding the role please do not hesitate to contact our Lisa Craddock Talent Acquisition Business Partner on