Insurance & Loss Control Advisor -  Ref: RT63119

£44,190 - £49,448 per annum

The Resources & Transformation Directorate are looking to recruit an Insurance & Loss Control Advisor to provide day to day management of the Council’s insurance and loss control arrangements and to provide support to the Head and Deputy Head of Finance in the delivery of projects for the Walsall Proud Programme at this exciting time for Walsall Council. 

The main duties of the post holder will be to provide day to day management of the Council’s Insurance & Loss Control Team and to take the lead on the Council’s insurance and loss funding arrangements, including self-insurance arrangements where this is appropriate.

You will have experience of working with complex insurance solutions within a large organisation and experience of dealing with self-insurance arrangements.    You wil also have a professional qualification relating to insurance, risk management or loss control and will need to have good communication skills with a knowledge of complex governance arrangements.

Closing date for applications: 28 May 2019
Proposed Interview Dates: 4 and 6 June 2019

Walsall Council is a great place to work. Our workforce are proud to be here, understanding and respecting our values as an organisation whilst delivering effective and efficient services to our residents every day.  Our workforce strategy recognises that the success of our organisation depends upon attracting, developing and retaining talent and having the right infrastructure and rewards approach in place in order to do so.

If you are passionate about delivering high quality, customer focused service and want to achieve great things in a supportive environment that offers opportunity and challenge in equal measure, Walsall Council is your employer of choice.  

Walsall has much to offer, including extensive regeneration, having recently delivered a newly rebuilt hospital and college, development of the Walsall Waterfront offering new residential accommodation, hotels and leisure facilities and is seeing ongoing investment in its town centre and retail provision.  As an employer, we provide an attractive employment package that includes:

• A generous annual leave entitlement offering (for this role) a minimum 28 days leave per year plus 9 concessionary days and in addition to a flexible working scheme that allows up to a further 12 days leave per year

• Access to an award winning pension scheme

• Recent development of the working environment which has created a modern professional space in which to work with improved technology that allows agile working

• Promotion of training and development opportunities to all our employees to help them progress and gain new skills

• A genuine commitment to equality of opportunity for our staff and customers – we aim to employ a representative workforce that reflects the communities we serve

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