- Pay Rate:
£11.18 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
- BOURNEMOUTH, Dorset,
BH2 6DY
Temporary Customer Services Officer / Admin
Reference no: Bournemouth 5235133
Pay rate: £11.18 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: BOURNEMOUTH, Dorset
Remoting working available but candidates must live within a 15 mile radius of Bournemouth Town Hall as will be required to collect and return IT equipment
A Customer Services Officer is required to handle customer enquiries as a first point of contact, to ensure that customers receive an excellent customer service. The role will operate as part of a team, working within defined procedures and protocols to deliver a consistent and accurate service. Handle routine and complex enquiries focused across a multiple of services where there will be a need for some detailed knowledge and procedural understanding.
Key Responsibilities
- Receive and respond to customer enquiries related to a range of services to provide a prompt and timely customer service, where possible at the first point of contact. This will include enquiries over all access channels and at times will involve confrontational customers and issues of a contentious nature.
- Check and verify documentation provided by customers in accordance with strictly defined requirements, uploading and storing it in appropriate systems, to ensure that documents provided are correct and safely handled.
- Escalate and refer specialist issues to other officers/teams in accordance with defined handover procedures, so that customer issues can be dealt with appropriately.
- Support customer and digital strategy principles by actively promoting and assisting customers (and services) to use the digital services for all appropriate customer interactions adopting a positive channel shift approach.
- Process payments in person and over the telephone, in accordance with tightly defined processes and procedures, to support customers to pay monies owed in an efficient and secure manner.
- Maintain accurate records of enquiries and resolutions and update and maintain all customer information records and documentation so that all relevant information is accessible for processing and audit purposes, as well as for service evaluation.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
- ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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