Customer Service Centre Advisor
Customer Service Advisor
Do you fancy an early Christmas present? An exciting new career in our award-winning Contact Centre?
Newcastle upon Tyne City Centre, One Strawberry Lane (and the best view of St James’ Park)
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw) – Hybrid - two days in the office and the remaining time from home (First four weeks will be full time office-based Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00)
Starting salary £23,464 pa pro rata, plus Brilliant Benefits including Health Cash Plan!
Please note, the starting date for these positions will be Late January / Early February 2025
Home, a place where you belong
Home Group is a social enterprise that supports some of the most vulnerable in society, including people with mental and physical health issues.- Are you up for a new challenge in supporting our customers?
- How about working for officially one of the top ten Best Workplace in the UK, according to the Great Place to Work 2024 national survey results?
- Do you want to work in the most technologically advanced office building in the region? This is a building like no other in Newcastle.
- Do you genuinely care, and get a buzz from helping people?
- Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better?
If so, we are looking for new brilliant colleagues to join our European award-winning team. (I know, that’s impressive!!) This isn’t “just” any old customer service role, we’re looking for “customer service heroes” to support our customers.
About you- You’re a positive, confident & enthusiastic communicator with the ability to handle objections.
- You’re resilient when faced with a challenge or when things don’t go to plan. Can you remain calm dealing with some distressing calls from customers who are relying on your help?
- You follow process when it’s important but can also think on your feet. We want a win-win for both our customer and the business.
- You care about our customers and give every customer the brilliant experience they deserve.
- You have strong customer service skills and excellent verbal and written language abilities. As well as calls our customers use email, Live Chat and social media to contact us. Have you experience using these tools?
- You’re comfortable leading the conversation and finding the right outcome for our customers.
Be yourself at Home
Home Group is proud to hold the National Equality Standard. Everyone is free to be who they want to be. We are committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too! We’re super proud of our internal Diversity Networks and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability).We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work!
We’re offering- 26 days holiday (including a ‘Me day’) rising by 1 day each year up to 30 days. You can also purchase up to 5 additional days.
- All the “tech” you need to enable you to work effectively from either home or the office.
- Health Cash Plan saving you up to £1140 pa. We’ll cover your costs (and your kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescription charges, alternative therapies and lots more.
- Competitive pension scheme with employer contributions
- Excellent career progression, through personal development plans and our “Grow our Own” development programme. Our management team all started their careers as customer service advisers.
- Shopping discounts & access to the Blue Light Card discount scheme
- Technology Purchase Scheme (That new TV or smartphone is a few clicks away!)
- Cycle to work scheme (bike storage, drying rooms and showers are available at our office)
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Time off for volunteering
- A wide range of engagement activities in the workplace led by our colleague engagement team.
Working hours
Full Time: Currently Monday to Friday between 8:00 am till 6:00 pm on a shift rotation.
We staff bank holidays with volunteers, so if you’d like to be off, you probably can. You just need to request it.
This leaves plenty time to attend our summer and Christmas parties, summer kids activities or discounted panto. We’d love you to get involved.
Want to know more
Email our Service Centre management team at sean.armstrong@homegroup.org.uk with any questions you may have. We will get back to you asap.
You can even arrange a time that suits you to pop into our awesome Head Office next to St James Park. Our café is the ideal place for a chat with one of the team and the cappuccinos are amazing!