Call Centre Agent

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Customer Specialist team at Wescot Credit Services in Saltcoats** **as a** Customer Service or Call Centre Specialist.**

We’re looking for people who are interested in growing their careers with us. If you are comfortable working in a professional and busy environment and equally at ease making and taking calls from our customers, then we want to talk to you.

As a** **Call Centre Customer Specialist at Wescot Credit Services you will be having conversations with people to support them to get back to financial wellbeing and getting back on track with what they owe. You’ll be based at our office in Saltcoats.

In this rewarding role, we’ll support you to use your expertise and commitment to customer service is helping our clients achieve financial health. Your role will involve you:

- Tailoring affordable repayment plans to help our customers on the road to financial recovery.
- Handling inbound and dialler based outbound calls.
- Providing exceptional customer service via telephone.
- Working to call KPIs and internal quality standards.
- We’ll ask you to work 1 in 3 Saturdays, but don’t worry we’ll give you a day off during the week prior to your Saturday shift.
- To help you plan well in advance, you'll be working a six-week rolling shift rotation.

To support you with this, our comprehensive four-week office-based induction (Monday-Friday between 09:00-17:00) means you will spend time learning how to use our systems and deal with our customers. We’ll make sure you’re fully prepared to speak to customers once you’ve hit the required quality. After training you’ll move to support our customers when they need us. We’re open Monday to Friday 09:00 - 20:00 and Saturdays 11:00 - 17:00. You have the option of a 35, 37.5 or 40 hour per week contract with shift patterns that can be completed over five days per week so there’s flexibility built in.

It’s our call centre teams amazing efforts, hard work, community and dedication that sets us apart from the rest, which is why we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

- Salary from £23,504 rising depending on experience.
- Fantastic monthly bonus where you could earn around an additional £2000 per year
- 31 days holiday including bank holidays.
- Discounts and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops
- Optional private healthcare plan (BUPA)
- Lots of great monthly incentives where you can win a range of prizes and rewards
- Ongoing support and development from our in-house team
- Once you’re fully competent and confident in your role, we operate a hybrid working business, offering employees the ability to blend between office and home working for better work life balance

If this sounds like you and you have got what it takes, come and join our rapidly expanding team

**About Us**:
We are a contact centre-based business offering a range of financial services to a large number of blue-chip organisations - from complete outsource solutions to collections, recoveries and trace activity. We work on behalf of a number of banking, utility, telecoms and retail finance companies whose customers have fallen behind with their repayments. We then work with each individual customer to establish an affordable and sustainable repayment arrangement for the debt to support them to achieve financial health.

In 2017 we became part of Cabot Credit Management, which in turn is part of Encore Capital Group. Wescot has over 1,200 employees across 4 UK based locations - Hull, Glasgow, Saltcoats and Telford, our vision is 'to be the industry-leading trusted provider', and we know the only way to achieve that is through our people.

We are authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. We are a member of the Credit Services Association and are proud to be at the forefront in helping to shape best practice standards for the industry.
- Diversity and inclusion_ _are very important to us at Wescot and we value diverse talent within our business. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone. _
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