Planner

**About The Role**:
Are you an organised individual, with a passion for delivering excellent **customer service**?

As a Planner, you will be the first point of contact for **planning **and **scheduling **all repairs. You will enjoy working with our customers, to ensure they are given a high level quality service with excellent customer care.

This is an exciting and fast paced opportunity. In the last year the Planning team scheduled 5,500 jobs classed as priority number 1 and 16,000 for responsive repairs - in which case, you should have forward thinking and problem solving skills.

On a day to day basis, you will spend a lot of your time on the phone, liaising with colleagues and scheduling all resources efficiently. Experience in a similar role is not essential as full training will be given. The most important thing is that you have excellent decision making skills and put customer service at the heart of everything you do.

This exciting opportunity is being offered on a
**full time**,
**permanent** basis.
- To be a successful Planner, you should:
- Be organised; confident in managing diary appointments
- Be able to think creatively when necessary
- Be curious and persuasive
- Have great communication skills with the ability to build a rapport
- Have problem solving skills
- Be confident in speaking with a variety of customers - both internal and external
- Have strong administration experience with customer service at the heart of everything you do
- Have excellent decision making and problem solving skills
- You do not need previous experience in a similar role (but if you have that would be brilliant) - this is a busy role, where every day is different so you should be prepared to throw yourself in and learn as you go.**What we offer**:
- Discretionary Bonus scheme
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days plus an option to purchase extra annual leave
- Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover (worth up to £1,100 per annum)
- Defined Contribution pension scheme - employer contribution of 6% - 9%
- Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support
- Death in Service benefit (3 x salary)
- Family Friendly policies
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Car Benefit scheme
- Volunteering days
- We also offer an onsite café, a car share scheme and free parking.
- You may have experience in: Maintenance Scheduler, Reactive Repairs Planner, Scheduler, Diary Management, Customer Services, Administrator, Coordinator, Social Housing, Housing Association.

**About The Company**:
LiveWest provides over 39,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility.

As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone.

As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please click here.