Underwriter, Insurance

About The Role

Working Pattern - Home based. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Experience in underwriting Life, Critical Illness and Income protection?

Excellent customer focus and making the right decision

Ability to manage workloads independently and to work as a team

In this role, you'll play a vital part in helping people protect what matters most. You'll review applications for life, serious illness, and income protection cover making decisions that truly make a difference. Working closely with supportive colleagues across underwriting, operations, and distribution, you'll ensure every outcome is fair, consistent, and high-quality.

You'll also be a trusted partner to our key distributors, building strong relationships through expert guidance and collaboration. This is your chance to make an impact while living our values : embracing innovation, working together, and always doing the right thing.

• Underwrite life, serious illness, and income protection applications in line with Vitalitys underwriting philosophy and quality standards
• Collaborate with brokers to guide applications through the underwriting process smoothly and efficiently
• Provide authorisation and support for applications assessed by less experienced underwriters
• Contribute to the ongoing development of Vitalitys underwriting and service propositions
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes and a joined-up approach to member protection

• Proven experience in underwriting life, serious illness, and income protection applications. Ideally level 3
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with brokers and internal teams
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, regulated environment with a focus on quality and consistency.

Bonus Schemes

• A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%. We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance
• With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

• Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded Top 10 Best Places To Work

in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!

Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.

We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives their benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people.

and because we care.

Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.

Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait.

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.