Customer Service Advisor

Sja's West; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant charity dedicated to saving lives and improving community health. As a Customer Service Advisor, you will be at the forefront of delivering exceptional service, handling inquiries across various channels, and supporting the organization's mission. This role offers a competitive salary, generous benefits, and the chance to grow in a supportive environment. With a focus on inclusivity and diversity, you will be part of a team that values every contribution, ensuring that your work makes a real difference in people's lives. Embrace the opportunity to thrive in a fulfilling career while helping others.

Benefits

Generous Pension

Flexible Working

33 Days Holiday

Options to Buy/Sell Holiday

Free First Aid Courses

Discounts for Blue Light and NHS

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Assurance

Flu Jab

Mental Health and Wellbeing Tools

Qualifications

• Experience in customer service and database management is essential.
• Strong interpersonal skills and proficiency in IT office applications required.

Responsibilities

• Handle customer inquiries via email, web chat, and phone professionally.
• Ensure accurate booking records and meet service level agreements.

Skills

Customer Service Experience

Database Management

Interpersonal Skills

IT Office Applications

Job description

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century? As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives.

The Customer Service Advisor is responsible for delivering service excellence to all customers. To provide an effective sales service via email (cases), web chat, social media and phone, ensuring training/supplies requirements and requests are dealt with accurately and efficiently, whilst maintaining the agreed internal/external service levels and meeting the organisations core values.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid, flexible working, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first/mental aid first aider courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, flu jab, eye care, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About You:

• Experience of working in a customer service environment
• Experience of database management
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to use IT office applications at intermediate level

About The Role:

• Deal with incoming e-mails (cases) to the shared queues for bookings and general enquiries in a professional manner meeting the service level agreement and individual targets.
• Effectively handle enquiries received via web chat and social media to agreed service levels and individual targets.
• Provide telephone answering service for incoming callers in a professional manner and to process their bookings/requests efficiently to agreed service levels and individual targets.
• Ensure that all bookings are accurately recorded on the relevant databases paying attention to the specific invoicing requirements of each account and have a detailed knowledge and understanding of the hierarchies in the databases.
• Escalate opportunities and issues where appropriate to National Account Executives, Telephone Account Executives or CSA who manage the accounts and support the achievement of revenue targets.

About Us:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and gender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.