Customer Service Advisor

Somerset Council; Shepton Mallet; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Customer Service Advisor to join their dynamic team. In this rewarding role, you will be the first point of contact for customers, handling a wide range of enquiries related to Council services. Your responsibilities will include providing exceptional support, guiding customers through various processes, and ensuring their needs are met with empathy and understanding. This full-time position offers a supportive environment with excellent training opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and a generous benefits package. If you are passionate about helping others and thrive in a busy environment, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Generous annual leave allowance

Staff discounts in gyms

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills including listening, empathy, and understanding.
• Confidence and resilience to handle high volume, sensitive interactions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for customer enquiries.
• Provide quality support and guidance to customers.
• Handle a variety of customer queries face to face and over the phone.

Skills

Customer Service Skills

Communication Skills

Empathy

Problem-Solving

Computer Skills

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

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Some key information

This is a busy and highly rewarding role, handling high volume customer enquiries relating to a wide range of Council services

• You will begin your role supporting enquires about one of our many services which include Council Tax, Waste, Highways, Registrations, Business Rates, Planning, Housing (and could at a later date include Children's, Families and Education and Adult Social Care,)
• Office days will be based in our Shape Mendip office in Shepton Mallet
• Full-time position (37hrs). Customers can contact us between 8.30-5pm Monday to Friday so, your work pattern will be within these hours
  
  

What will I be doing?

In this post as a Customer Service Advisor, you will be providing ‘front door’ support for customers contacting the Council. ‘Front door’ support means you will act as the first point of contact for customers needing advice and assistance about any service provided by Somerset Council, which makes it a really interesting role. You will handle each enquiry with care and understanding, offering quality support and guidance before and in lots of cases instead of, transferring the customer to specific service teams. Customers include members of the public, professionals, and councillors.

• You will spend most of your time talking with customers in our Customer Access points or over the telephone
  
  

The variety of enquires through to this team is extensive. Some examples include supporting people who;

• are concerned about the wellbeing of themselves, a family member, friend or neighbour and need help with personal care, mobility or day to day activities?
• are raising safeguarding concerns and reporting those at immediate risk?
• are needing advice about starting or moving schools, school meals, school transport or special educational needs
• are needing help with their council tax bill, paying an invoice, rent or business rates
• are wanting to report a missed waste collection, problem on the road or fallen tree
  
  

Your day to day work

• Talking to customers, predominantly face to face and by telephone
• Providing excellent ‘person centred’ customer advice and guidance.
• Having strength-based conversations to determine the best way forward.
• Supporting customers to self-serve using our online digital solutions
• Signposting to services and organisations best suited to the customers’ needs
  
  

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

Customer demand for our help continues to grow meaning we are an incredibly busy team, therefore, you’ll need the skills and behaviours to really thrive in this environment.

• Excellent customer service skills including listening, empathy, understanding and kindness.
• Excellent all round communication skills including strong telephone manner.
• Confidence and resilience to handle high volume, sensitive and emotive interactions.
• Good computer skills, confidence to learn new systems and use multiple technologies.
• Enthusiasm to learn about our services, a positive and calm way of working and a problem-solving mindset.
• Professionalism to adhere to process and understand the confidential and sometimes difficult nature of interactions we handle.
• Experience is not essential; however, it will be useful and if you do have experience of any of our services on a personal or professional basis then please make this clear in your application.
  
  

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

What's in it for me?

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more
  
  

Anything else I should know?

If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity before applying, please email Hannah Gilbertson, Service Delivery Manager [e-mail] for an informal chat.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role.

This post may require a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.

Th salary for this role is £25,183 - £27,269 per annum

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

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