Customer Service Advisor (Housing Repairs)

apartmentPertemps placeLondon calendar_month 
Role - Customer Service (Housing Repairs)
Mon - Fri Office based
£23 per hour PAYE via Umbrella

3 to 6 months ongoing

Role Purpose
  • To provide a single point of contact for those contacting the council about housing services and repairs.
  • To ensures that customers receive a timely and positive response to their contact with the council, achieving performance targets and high rates of satisfaction.
Responsibilities
  • To act as the first point of contact, providing initial advice and information and resolving directly the most frequent service requests by; telephone, email, web, and other social media channels
  • Where appropriate to direct and/or connect telephone callers and enquiries via other channels to other individuals/departments where more complex and specific advice is required
  • To capture accurate and detailed information to pass to relevant specialist teams where the Customer Service Center cannot fully resolve a query
  • To access and record actions on the council’s central housing database and other systems to provide residents with relevant information and services, for example, to issue a rent statement, take a rent payment, order a repair and to make a surveyor appointment.
  • To develop knowledge of key policies and procedures and to use quiet time to keep this knowledge fresh to deal most effectively with the most frequent service requests.
  • To carry out telephone surveys on a range of issues and record the outcomes
  • To capture and update relevant customer information
  • To work in a performance management driven culture with SMART objectives linked to the overall Customer Service Center key performance indicators, customer satisfaction and first contact resolution targets
Requirements
  • Experience of working in a customer service centre environment or similar customer service focussed organisation, interacting with customers to deliver high quality services
  • HOUSING REPAIRS EXPERIENCE
  • Experience working in a housing association or council is ESSENTIAL
  • Experience of working in a fast paced and high-pressure environment
  • Experience of dealing with challenging customers

If you are interested in this position AND meet the requirements, APPLY NOW!

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