- Pay Rate:
£14.81 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 5-6 months
- Wembley,
HA9 0FJ
Temporary Customer Service Officer– Admin & Clerical
Reference no: Brent 5233824
Pay Rate: £14.81 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 5-6 months
City: Wembley, London
Required to work from the Civic Centre office, located in Wembley Park everyday, for the first month. Thereafter, working from home 3 days a week and working from the Civic Centre twice a week.
The post-holder will be responding to customer enquiries via telephone, always having the customer at the forefront of what you do and updating several different computer systems, depending on the enquiry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide customers and other stakeholders, first contact resolution for enquiries received via phone, email and social media channels.
- Provide a prompt, efficient and professional service and demonstrate the highest standards of customer care at all times.
- Carry out all duties in accordance with relevant Council and Customer Service policies, procedures and standards to ensure the delivery of excellent services to customers and stakeholders.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via job[email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
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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.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Experience:
- Experience of providing a customer-focused service in a demanding, fast paced customer service environment including areas requiring the application of discretion or judgement.
- Experience of effectively resolving enquiries covering a range of enquiry types and channels.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of providing a customer focussed advice, information, enquiry, transactions and complaints handling service covering a broad range of enquiry types.
- Knowledge of the various self-help channels that support customer service delivery such as websites, online forms and social media
Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to effectively resolve complex customer enquiries, requests, complaints or transactions and deal with a high volume of customer contact via various access channels.
- Ability to deal politely, efficiently and courteously with a wide range of individuals, ensuring they feel supported, listened to, welcome and confident in the handling of their enquiry.
- Deal sympathetically with distressed, agitated, confused or irate customers.
- Ability to effectively listen and to interpret a range of different
legislations and procedures and clearly explain the information to customers verbally and in writing.
***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.
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).
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