Customer Service Fleet Administrator

Northumbria Group.; Seaton Delaval; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing Hub

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Fleet Solutions administrator to manage salary sacrifice schemes and handle customer queries by phone and email from the Fleet Solutions team. The role is office-based and training is provided, with a focus on accuracy and responsiveness to daily high call volumes.

Experience in a call centre or customer service environment is desirable; candidates should be comfortable using Microsoft Office and navigating web-based systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer service environment, handling inbound/outbound calls and emails.
• Evidence of ability to work in a fast-paced environment and learn on the job.

Responsibilities

• Field incoming calls and manage employee queries by email.
• Carry out administrative tasks related to salary sacrifice schemes.
• Use Microsoft Office and web-based systems to support the schemes.

Skills

Call Centre Experience

Microsoft Office

Education

A level/NVQ level 3

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Site Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub Town Seaton Deleval Salary £27,476 per annum plus bonus Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the fast paced Fleet Solutions team who manage salary sacrifice schemes.

The successful candidate will be required to work in a fast-paced environment and mainly deal with customer queries via email and on the telephone.

Candidates with previous call centre experience desirable but not essential, as long as the candidate is willing to learn on the job. Full training will be provided.

The successful candidate must be confident in handling both inbound and outbound calls in large volumes on a daily basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a commercially focused department within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Previous applicants need not apply.

This is an office based post.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

Main duties of the job

Being part of the Fleet Solutions team means that you are part of the Northumbria Family. The main duties of the role focus around administrative tasks relating to the management of salary sacrifice schemes.

The successful candidate will be required to field incoming calls, manage employee queries via email and also carry out administrative tasks necessary to the schemes that we operate.

The successful candidate must be confident using different Microsoft Office packages and also navigating web based systems.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us.

We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with key industry personnel, e.g. Vehicle Manufacturers, NHS approved leasing companies, client Trust liaison officers, insurance company staff, Home Electronic Scheme suppliers, government officials and other key external contacts.
• Deal with a wide variety of queries from; employees, leasing companies, dealers, pool car providers/users, insurance brokers and managers/budget holders.
• Describe and explain technical specifications of different manufacturers and models of car.
• Understand and explain the varying complexities of salary sacrifice and how these relate to car lease and home electronic schemes.
• Manage the delivery of vehicles with lease companies/dealers, which often includes the rescheduling of vehicle delivery dates, often at very short notice and with inconvenience and cost to suppliers.
• Manage the process of Home Electronics from enquiry to order to delivery to end of lease, with customers and their employees.
• Ensure vehicles are ordered at the most advantageous price from the panel of suppliers to gain best value for the trust and its customers.
• Responsible for converting quotations into placed business.
• Identify and react to potential customer enquiries ensuring a very high level of accuracy.
• Work efficiently and enthusiastically towards the team targets.
• Handle potential customers who have; registered on the system but not progressed to the quotation stage, obtained quotes but not ordered and accepted quotes but not returned complete paperwork.
• Responsible for answering routine customer queries prior to point of order ensuring the highest possible conversion rates are achieved.

Qualifications

• Academically educated to A level/NVQ level 3 standard or relevant experience in a customer service environment or business administration.

Experience and knowledge

• Knowledge and expertise gained through experience of working within the financial and/or transport/motor industry/staff benefit fields or a customer service related industry.
• Knowledge or experience of working with databases.
• Call Centre Experience
• Call centre experience

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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