Customer Contact Officer

7 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Great Places Housing Group Full time

Job Advert

**Customer Contact Officer (CCO)**

You’ll be the first point of contact for our customers and often colleagues for a wide range of queries that will be received through various contact methods. You’ll work in a fast paced and busy Customer Hub with a focus on providing excellent timely resolution for our customers and colleagues. Every day and every enquiry is different, but you will have plenty of support around you to enable you to deliver the level of service expected, including peer to peer support, specialists and managers who are all easily accessible to provide the coaching and guidance needed.

What you’ll be doing
- Responding to a range of customer and colleague queries which will include raising repairs, rent account management, tenancy related issues, ASB queries, re-housing advice and complaints.
- Providing guidance and assistance to customers to enable them, where possible, to resolve issues themselves or where appropriate signpost to other agencies who can support them.
- Managing difficult situations and customers, but knowing when to escalate more complex queries to the Neighbourhood Colleagues, Specialists or Team Managers.
- Identifying safeguarding concerns and ensure they are dealt with promptly and in line with our guidelines.
- Ensuring that clear, comprehensive and timely records are logged into our systems for all contacts.
- Managing customer expectations about the services we offer and have a good understanding of the customer’s responsibilities when holding a tenancy.
- Part of a team rota, where you’ll be working between the hours of 8am to 6pm.
- You’ll work part of the week in the office, and part of the week from home (once fully trained)
- What we need from you
- A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing
- A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities
- Commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places
- A commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity
- An ability to work in uncertainty.
- To be professional and work with integrity, inclusivity and respect for diversity

What you’ll need
- Experience of working in a customer focused role
- Experience of responding to and resolving challenging customer situations
- The ability to, and comfortable with, making decisions supported by knowledge and experience
- The ability to build effective relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders so you are able to find the right information, and resolve problems
- Experience of using Microsoft office or similar
- The ability to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner when working under pressure
- Great written and verbal communication
- Good organisation skills and the ability to time-manage your work load

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment
- ** Pension** **| **DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)
- ** WPA** **| **Healthcare** **auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available - option to increase & add family members
- ** Annual leave **|**Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days + Bank Holidays
- ** Professional fees | **The business pays the cost of one professional membership fee for each colleague
- ** The Market Place** **|**high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
- ** Health and wellbeing initiatives | **Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing

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