Customer Experience Advisor

And Yorkshire Housing Limited; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Pension 9% match

26–31 days leave

Job summary

Yorkshire Housing is seeking a Customer Experience Advisor to join our contact centre, delivering outstanding service both over the phone and by email. The role is predominantly home-based with monthly office presence, and includes a 35-hour week, with a rotating shift pattern and a salary of £26,343.86 plus benefits.

You will handle inquiries across tenancy management, repairs, income questions, and more, using our CRM to keep records up to date while guiding customers to self-service options

Qualifications

• Customer-focused with excellent people skills.
• Calm, empathetic telephone manner and solution-focused thinking.
• Resilience, strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience of using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.
• Comprehensive IT experience, especially with MS products and reliable home internet (min 75 Mbps).

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent customer experience in a high-performing contact centre.
• Handle inbound/outbound calls and emails, resolving issues and questions.
• Create and update customer records accurately in systems.
• Keep customers informed with proactive communication across channels.
• Promote and assist customers with self-service portal and bookings.

Skills

Customer service

CRM

MS Office

Communication

Tools

CRM software

MS Office

Job description

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding career in an exciting customer facing role? Do you enjoy talking to people and solving their problems? If so, you might be the perfect fit! We’re on the lookout for our next intake of Customer Experience Advisors to work in our contact centre.

We’re holding an assessment centre for this one on the afternoon / evening of Friday 2nd October 2026 in Leeds City Centre please make sure your diary is free before applying.

So, what’s in it for you?

• Salary£26,343.86for a 35-hour week
• Full time hours, Monday to Friday (with a 3 week rotating shift pattern 8-4, 9-5, 10-6)
• 26 days annual leave (raising annually to 31 days) plus Bank Holidays
• Some top of the range tech and office furniture to carry out your job from home
• A contributory pension scheme where we will match your contributions up to 9%
• A benefits platform that suits everyone

The role:

As our Customer Experience Advisor, you’ll be the voice of Yorkshire Housing, you’ll take pride in being our friendly, calm, and professional first point of contact for our customers, providing excellent service and support. You’ll handle inbound and outbound calls, answer questions, resolve issues, and respond to emails. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn new skills, work with a diverse and friendly team, and grow your career with us.

Whether it's through calls, emails, or text, you'll provide a fantastic and positive customer experience.

Here's what you'll be doing:

• Customer obsessed service: Delivering an excellent customer experience within our high-performing contact centre team, focusing on first-time resolution.
• Problem solver: Handling a wide variety of queries, including income, tenancy management, repairs, lettings, and anti-social behaviour.
• Tech-savvy: Creating and updating customer records using our systems, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Proactive communicator: Keeping customers up to date with information relating to their queries through various channels.
• Supportive advisor: Promoting and assisting customers to use our self-service portal and booking appointments for required services.

You’ll be part of a supportive team but it’s important to mention that a large proportion of this role will be home-based, so you need to be comfortable with this way of working. There will be some in person in office working at least monthly.

What we need from you:

We're looking for folk who are customer-focused – or as we say at Yorkshire Housing, "Customer Obsessed", along with the below:

• You should have excellent people and communication skills, with the ability to adapt to and meet each customer's needs.
• A calm, empathetic, and clear telephone manner is essential, along with quick, solutions-focused thinking and the ability to work independently.
• Resilience and the ability to handle difficult situations objectively are important, as is strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience of using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System.
• You should have comprehensive IT experience, especially with MS products, and a stable home internet connection (minimum 75Mbps).

So, now you’re really interested?

At YH, we’re actively building a work environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, where everyone can contribute their best work and be themselves. We believe difference is what makes us stronger and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities we serve, so we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds for this role.

The closing date for applications is 20.09.26

• Job Reference yorkshousinggroup/TP/80/1172