About the Role
As a Contact Centre Advisor, you will be the first point of contact for housing enquiries and complaints, managing multiple workflows across face-to-face, phone, email, social media, and web chat. You will take ownership of problems, ensure follow-up, and proactively seek customer feedback for process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple workflows: face to face, phone, email and social media, including web chat.
- Take ownership of problems and ensure they are followed up.
- Proactively seek customer feedback and ways of improving our processes.
Requirements
- Background in a fast-paced customer service setting.
- Honed communication skills.
- Well-developed questioning and listening skills.
- Ability to understand the customer’s point of view.
- Calm under pressure.
- Professional, empathetic, and courteous demeanor.
- Organized and able to manage own workload.
- Enjoy working to targets.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Good keyboard skills.
- Confidence in using a range of digital platforms.
- Enthusiastic and flexible team player.
- Keen to improve both service and own skills.
- Care Leavers seeking their first job who meet essential criteria will automatically be invited to interview.
- Disability Confident Employer: guaranteed interview if disability is declared and essential criteria are met.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Questioning skills
- Listening skills
- Customer service
- Digital platform usage
- Keyboard skills
- Written English
- Spoken English
Location
- Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Work Type
- Temporary up to 6 months
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Negotiable depending upon experience
Salary/Compensations
- £34,359 - £38,637 per annum
Benefits
- Flexible working patterns
- Agile working
About the Company
- Growth, Planning and Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories where reactive and passionate people are dedicated to enhancing services and creating real connections.
- Westminster is an amazing place, home to over 200,000 residents, over 50,000 businesses, and where three-quarters-of-a-million people work.
- Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making.
- We build a more inclusive city that celebrates diverse communities, where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
- We pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.
- We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.
- We aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way.
- The Council is a forward-thinking Council that appreciates people work in different ways.
Equal Opportunity
- Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace.
- We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve.
- The Council is a Disability Confident Employer.
