About the role
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
**Claims
Handler – Settlements, Home**
**Salary:
From £27,200 - £34,000 (dependant on experience) + annual bonus & benefits.
Work Level: 1, Permanent
Location: Newcastle, hybrid*
Training/ Office Attendance: You'll start your journey with 6 weeks of training
to give you the best start and tools in your career. Training will be office
based & Monday to Friday 09:00 -17:00. *Once competent in role you'll have
the opportunity to move to hybrid working, if certain criteria are met.
Closing Date: Applications close 11th March 2026 at 5pm.**
At Tesco Insurance, our Claims team does more than handle claims - we help
customers through some of life's most difficult and vulnerable moments. Whether
it's a bump in the road, damage to a home, or a sudden emergency, every call is
a chance to show we care and to do the right thing with empathy and expertise.
We're proud of our NPS and customer satisfaction scores but even prouder of the
skilled and compassionate colleagues behind those results. Whether resolving a
claim or partnering with suppliers to deliver great customer outcomes, we're
building a team that listens, learns, and leads with kindness.
Here, your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work makes a real
difference - especially when customers need us most.
Opportunity
We're looking for
Claims Handlers - Settlements
to join our
Home Team
at Tesco Insurance and Money Services. In this role you'll proactively manage
and settle a portfolio of claims as efficiently and economically as possible,
whilst providing a high standard of service to customers and other
stakeholders.
You'll use your current experience to effectively ensure claims are handled and
settled proficiently.
The Role
• Ensuring that claims are handled and settled efficiently and in the correct
technical manner, settling them in line with policy cover & legal
liability.
• Handling claims queries in relation to policy cover, claims status, policy
exclusions and excesses. Escalating complex queries where needed.
• Ensuring the accuracy of reserves, file status, recoveries, and diary
management on your caseload.
• Where appropriate, investigating claims to ensure payments are made only
where a liability is established.
• Identifying and reporting any concerns in relation to potential fraud or
instances of identified fraud; taking action as appropriate.
• Negotiating effectively with stakeholders and suppliers to ensure a fair
settlement is achieved for the customer and the company.
• Using a variety of communication approaches to build rapport and a positive
relationship to help manage the customer predicament and deliver the right
outcome.
• Ensuring compliance with Financial Conduct Authority and Data Protection Act
protocols and rules.
• Managing customer complaints proactively, identifying creative solutions to
reach a fair resolution; escalating more serious cases to the Team Leader.
We need you to have
• Experience
of working in the Insurance Industry.
•
Knowledge of home claims is desirable.
• Ability to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the
principles of Insurance.
• Ability to prioritise and manage own caseload independently, demonstrating
good planning and organisation. Able to manage a caseload of active claims.
• Sound commercial judgement and ability to exercise logical decision making in
relation to claims decisions.
• Robust level of computer literacy and ability to effectively navigate a range
of IT based systems.
• Proficiency in communicating with a range of stakeholders from policy holder
and third-party direct customers to third party representatives.
• Confident approach and an ability to take ownership for own decisions within
the established authority limits and parameters.
• Empathy when dealing with difficult and challenging situations, maintaining a
sensitive and caring approach.
• Capability of demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication
skills, including an ability to express complex information in straightforward
terms where required.
• Proven experience of being able to negotiate effectively and identify
solutions to meet customer and company needs.
We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the
brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What's in it for you?
• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the
opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that
increase to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to
share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity
leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity
leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and
award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.
Everyone's welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
We also know the importance of balancing work with life's other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we're committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.
Interviews
Interviews are expected to be held from March 2026
Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?
Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.
Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.
So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.
Let's make everyday a little better.
Our story
Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.
We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.
We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more