Customer Service Advisor

HSBC Bank Plc; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

Lunch on us

25 days' paid holiday (+ bank holidays

Hybrid working

Employee discounts

Job summary

HSBC Bank Plc is seeking a Customer Service Advisor to deliver exceptional service across a hybrid work setup with office and home-based days. Salary starts from £24,000 for a 35-hour week, with benefits including free parking, lunch for four weeks, 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, and employee discounts.

Training spans 16 weeks at the Academy, followed by live calls and peer coaching. Full-time contract with stability and opportunities within a major global bank in the UK.

Qualifications

• Active listening and empathy to understand customer concerns and retain key details.
• Clear communication: ask the right questions and ensure customers understand solutions.
• Customer-centric mindset to provide quality service and build lasting relationships.
• Empathy to tailor support based on the customer's perspective.
• Remain calm and focused when handling multiple priorities and queries.
• Accountability: resolve customer queries within policy and guidelines.
• Follow procedures or escalate appropriately to maintain service quality.
• Basic comfort with technology and digital tools.

Skills

Active listening

Effective communication

Customer-centric mindset

Empathy

Resilience

Accountability

Following Process

Digital Fluency

Job description

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:

1. Online Contact Centre Skills Assessment
2. A telephone-based Recruiter Interview
3. 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.