Customer Service Advisor

HSBC; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join HSBC as a Customer Service Advisor and contribute to a leading bank while delivering exceptional customer service. Enjoy a competitive starting salary of £24,000 annually for a 35-hour work week plus a range of benefits, including hybrid working and comprehensive training. The role requires excellent communication and active listening skills, and offers an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Free parking

Lunch for the first 4 weeks

25 days' paid holiday (+ bank holidays)

Employee discounts

Pension/healthcare schemes

Qualifications

• No banking/customer service experience required, but essential skills listed.
• Must have a commitment for a minimum of 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional customer service and solve problems effectively.
• Participate in comprehensive training over 16 weeks.
• Resolve customer queries in-line with policy and guidelines.

Skills

Active listening

Effective communication

Customer-centric mindset

Empathy and support

Resilience

Accountability

Following Process

Digital Fluency

Job description

Location: Fareham with hybrid working

Are you enthusiastic about delivering exceptional customer service? Do you excel at staying composed while communicating and solving problems to ensure customers feel supported? If so, join us as a Customer Service Advisor and enjoy all the rewards of working for one of the world's leading banks.

As well as a salary starting from £24,000 for a 35-hour week, we offer free parking and 'lunch on us' for your first 4 weeks - not to mention an impressive range of company benefits including 25 days' paid holiday (+ bank holidays), employee discounts and pension/healthcare schemes. We also provide hybrid working which gives you the best of both worlds.

You don't have to bring us banking or even customer service experience, but there are essential skills that we look for:

• Active listening: listen carefully, retain key details, and accurately understand our customers' concerns.
• Effective communication: clearly communicate information, ask the right questions, and ensure customers understand solutions.
• Customer-centric mindset: always aim to deliver a quality service for our customers so they have a positive experience to ensure longer lasting relationships.
• Empathy and support: understand the customer's perspective and tailor your approach accordingly to support.
• Resilience: remain calm when dealing with customer questions, competing priorities and a demanding workload.
• Accountability: resolve customer queries in-line with policy and guideline.
• Following Process: follow procedures or making appropriate escalations where necessary.
• Digital Fluency: have confidence and a good capability with technology.

We can teach you everything else you need to know via our comprehensive training programme. This will be across 16 weeks to get you up-to-speed with your role, our systems, and products, and supported in our Academy where you'll be taking your first live customer calls with the support of a peer coach. Our Training and Academy hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and training and academy support will be 100% face-to-face in the office. Where possible we ask that you do not take any holidays during this time as this will be limited during this period and can be discussed further at interview. You must also be able to commit to the role for a minimum of 12 months.

Applications are open to UK Residents over the age of 18 currently with a valid right to work in the UK, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. This is a full-time position that requires you to work 35 hours per week. Please note if you are on a student visa that does not allow you to work 35 hours per week, unfortunately, we will not be able to progress your application.

Our application process consists of:

Online Contact Centre Skills Assessment

A telephone-based Recruiter Interview

Final face-to-face interview with the business and an online Values Based Assessment

Our Contact Centre is open between 7.30am-7pm Monday to Friday and we are specifically looking for people who can work full-time on a rolling shift pattern that follows: Week 1 Monday to Friday 10:00 - 18:00 and Week 2- Monday to Friday 08:00 - 16:00. Flexibility is required as these are key hours when our customers need us the most. If successful in your application, an appropriate available shift pattern will be discussed with the team.

We operate a hybrid working environment, which means you will work at our office in Fareham some of your time and then remotely from home, so please do consider if this will be commutable for you. To be able to work from home, you will need to ensure you have a suitable office set up which includes a desk and a chair in a location which is free from the interruptions of day-to-day life. We will provide you with the technology required to do your role, but you'll need to have a home Fibre Broadband connection with a minimum speed of 10MPS.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we're dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

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