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**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 323560**Salary**:

- £24,273 - £24,273**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Work and Health Services - Universal Credit**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 16Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- StockportAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you looking to enhance or gain experience in both Customer Service and Administration?

Do you enjoy helping others?

If so, we would like to hear from you.

As part of the DWP Operational Delivery you will be at the heart of DWP’s front line operations helping to change people lives in our communities from around the 20 million plus customer base.

**Job description**:

- Demonstrate strong telephony and digital communication skills with a diverse range of claimants.
- Take ownership and manage cases by engaging across DWP to progress claimants in preparation for their journey towards work.
- Tailor the claimant journey and ensure claimants receive the correct payment amount, at the right time.
- Build positive relationships with claimants that encourage, motivate and build trust by demonstrating empathy and compassion.
- Handle sensitive and challenging situations with all claimants in a positive way.
- Be aware of labour market policy and its impact on claimant’s conditionality requirements.
- Make decisions by examining the available facts and giving explanations to claimants as required.
- Take ownership of personal development by accessing digital learning and communications tools.
- Work effectively with colleagues across the service.

**Person specification**:
To be successful in this role you will need:

- Be competent in delivering a quality service to a diverse claimant base.
- Undertake self-serve learning to meet requirements of the role and enhance your digital confidence**.**:

- Ability to work flexibly to meet changing priorities, managing a diverse workload.
- Be able to confidently tailor the service to meet the needs of the individual.
- Act on feedback to enhance quality of service delivery.
- Take ownership of complaints and supports their resolution.
- Be able to provide support where appropriate to claimants who require assistance.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.**Stage 2** - If eligible, you will be invited to complete The Customer Service Skills Test

Sift period: 21/11/23 to 24/11/23

Week commencing 04/12/23 interviews commence. Interviews will take place in Stockport Service Centre.
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions.

**Further Information**

Find out more about Working for DWP

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

**Important**

If you hold a level 3 qualification (2 A levels or equivalent) then please bring your certificates with you to the interview if you have them.

**Reasonable Adjustment**

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of b