Current Vacancies

The primary function of the Utilisation Review Nurse will be reviewing claims to ensure efficiency and cost containment and making decisions on claims utilisation following evaluation of medical guidelines and benefit determination. Communication and education of hospital personnel and consultants to ensure efficiency will play an important part in the role.   

Desirable personal qualities include the ability to work under pressure, pay attention to detail, tolerance for reviewing, analysing and interpreting data and be a confident decision maker. Good communication skills and presentation skills are necessary.

This role reports to the Medical Practice Manager

Major duties and responsibilites:

• Retrospective Clinical Evaluation of Claims to ensure treatment was carried out in the appropriate setting with an appropriate Length of Stay.
• Involved in setting of fees in the Schedule of Procedures for Professional fees
• Provide Clinical training to non -clinical personnel
• Provide Clinical advice and support to the Business
• Attendance at meetings with hospital and consultants
• Liaise with Clinicians on a daily basis
• Responsibility for reporting and analysing practice in Claims Activity.    
• Update monthly reports on utilisation review.
• Draft letters, papers and presentations in relation to the clinical area as required.
• Awareness to market changes in the medical field
• Completion of any ad hoc duties which may be requested as part of the daily running of the Medical Practice team.

Education and Experience:

A registered General Nurse with a minimum of 5 years hands on clinical experience.

Needs to have Computer skills and Presentation Skills, have the ability to be pro-active and decisive in analysing practice and implementing better ways of working creating efficiencies. Confident in dealing with clinicians.                  

Digital Programme Manager

Objective:

To manage the Digital Programme in our vision to become Ireland’s leading insurance provider through relentlessly innovating and caring for our people, our partners and the lives we look after.   

Primary function:

To lead, co-ordinate and deliver a broad range of digital, social and mobile communication projects from idea generation, to creative design, to product delivery, providing strategic solutions to Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Product Development, Customer Services and Finance in the expansion of our overall market share while at all times creating a nationwide awareness of our brand and our values.

Major duties and responsibilites:

• Act as an ambassador for our brand and our values at all times.
• Ensure the integrated elements of digital projects are brought together on time, to specification and within budget to meet stakeholders’ expectations.
• Identify new and emerging trends in the digital market across multiple channels.
• Take responsibility for all digital project lifecycles including ideation, design & development and pre/post launch phases.
• Understand and communicate the business rationale and technical requirements of digital projects.
• Engage cross functional teams in a collaborative, confident and influential manner to develop digital project objectives, scope, structure, timelines and deliverables to progress the organisation to the forefront in the domain.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members in a clear and concise fashion.
• Manage all digital projects, identifying and prioritising resources required, establishing delivery plans that take on board the consequences for and concerns of all our business functions.
• Create all planning and execution documents to include project deliverables, deployment schedules and project success criteria.
• Document and circulate all digital project plans detailing activities, ownership, dependencies, risks and timing in a wide cross-functional environment. Follow up with plan component owners to deliver projects on time.
• Demonstrate the ability to grasp issues, to evaluate situations and to make appropriate decisions. Resolve or escalate issues in a timely manner.
• Recommend improvement to project management approaches, policies and guidelines.
• Contribute, where appropriate to the development of marketing strategies and plans.
• Any and all other activities which are requested and within the capabilities of and appropriate to the role.

Education and Experience:

Ideally the candidate will be third level qualified in a Business or Science discipline with three years experience in digital projects/project management. However, career achievement to date and right fit for our culture will be the defining criteria in selection.

Senior Software Developer

Required Technical Skills

1.The ideal candidate must be educated to a degree level and have a minimum of 5 years commercial development experience.

2. Core Technical Requirements: Enterprise Java, JavaScript (JQuery), Advanced level knowledge of Oracle (9i, 10G), CSS, HTML AJAX, Spring, Spring MVC, JSP, Hibernate and/or PowerBuilder.  Understanding of Groovy and Grails would be very beneficial.

 3. Desirable Technical Requirements: Windows, Linux, JBoss, Tomcat, Subversion, Hudson

 4. Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to other technically-astute team members and non-technical business clients.

 5. Analytical ability required in identifying user problems and creativity required to present effective solutions.

 6. Ability to design and build applications based on defined business criteria and provide an accurate estimate for expected time of completion of a project.

Junior Software Developer

Required Technical Skills

1.The ideal candidate must be educated to a degree level and have a minimum of 1-2 years commercial development experience.

2. Core Technical Requirements: Groovy, Grails, GORM, Enterprise Java, JavaScript (JQuery and JS frameworks), AJAX, SOAP/Restful (XML/JSON) webservices, Advanced level knowledge of Oracle (9i, 10G), Spring, Hibernate, JSP, HTML, CSS, Tiles, PowerBuilder.

3. Desirable Technical Requirements: Subversion, Hudson, Maven, Windows, Linux, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache.

4. Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to other technically-astute team members and non-technical business clients.

5. Analytical ability required in identifying user problems and creativity required to present effective solutions.

6. Ability to design and build applications based on defined business criteria and provide an accurate estimate for expected time of completion of a project. 

MIS Analyst

Skills Required

• Knowledge of SQL is necessary
• Knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL is desirable
• Knowledge of Query tools such as Qlikview an advantage
• Experience in Data Analytics is desirable
• Project Management
• Business analysis/requirements gathering
• Liaise effectively with customers to determine business needs
• Liaise with systems and end user personnel
• Development of new and existing systems
• Analytical ability required in identifying user requests and creativity required to present effective solutions
• Ability to communicate in layman’s terms with non-technical users is desired
• Additional skills include attention to detail, motivation, enthusiasm, working in a close team environment
• And the ability to work to tight timelines to meet agreed service levels
• Insurance Industry Experience an advantage

Duties

• Generation of weekly and monthly operations reports for Senior management
• Working on ad hoc report requests
• Working closely with other information analysts to meet defined service levels for key management reports
• Participate in defining information requests with the relevant business users
• Design and build information queries based on defined business criteria
• Deliver the information in the required format and layout
• Follow the defined and agreed process for producing the reports
• Work to agreed timelines to deliver information in a timely manner

Occupational Health Advisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of full time Occupational Health Advisor with laya healthcare in the Kinsale area. This is an existing client-based position and experience in the areas of Case Management and Health Surveillance in a pharmaceutical setting is required. 

The successful candidate will be registered in the General Division of the Register of Nurses with An Bord Altranais, will hold a recognised qualification in Occupational Health and be competent in Audiometry, Spirometry and Manual Handling.

You will need to be motivated, professionally decisive and confident with excellent communication skills. You will need to focus on customer service and have experience in the delivery of sickness absence case management, health surveillance, health & wellness programmes and working in a commercial client setting. 

If you wish to discuss any aspect of the role, please contact Mary Forde, H@W Contract Manager on 086 3813039.

Sales/Customer Service/Claims Positions

Over the next 3 years, we will create 100 new jobs in the above areas. If you wish to apply for these positions, just email us with your CV to hr@layahealthcare.ie and tell us why you want to join our team and deliver our promise. Looking forward to hearing from you and about you…