Customer Service Officer - 14 Month Ftc

Chime Housing; Waterford; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days' annual leave (pro rata)

Employer pension contribution up to 11

Development opportunities

Comprehensive employee rewards scheme

Job summary

Chime Housing is seeking a Customer Service Officer to join our Customer Service Team on a 14-month fixed-term contract. This office-based role supports residents and helps deliver a high-quality service across channels.

The role focuses on first-point contact, handling enquiries, coordinating repairs, and ensuring timely, courteous responses. After probation, a review of working from home may be considered, with an emphasis on delivering KPI-driven customer experience.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years' experience in Customer Service / Reception
• Qualifications in Customer Service / Customer Care
• You will need to maintain a satisfactory basic level DBS check

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for the organisation's customers, assisting with a range of enquiries and liaising with other staff members as required.
• Assess and resolve enquiries, requests and complaints by telephone, email, online or face to face as reasonably possible.
• Effective administration of the repairs process to include call handling, email responses, diagnosing faults, raising jobs, allocating and issuing jobs, managing work in progress, updating, and completing works on the system in a timely and effective manner.
• Focus on creating a first-time resolution for the customer ensuring queries are dealt with where possible at first point of contact, taking ownership to resolve queries effectively.
• Apply sound judgement to resolve customer queries in relation to repairs and maintenance. Doing so in a timely manner as well as managing such queries sensitively and effectively through to satisfactory resolution.
• Provide accurate repairs advice to customers.
• Demonstrating empathy, professionalism and the ability to manage conflict, achieving a balance between requirements of customers and internal stakeholders.
• Acting as a key point of contact for customer enquiries and signposting customer queries appropriately.
• Ensuring that all customer enquiries and requests are dealt with in a prompt, courteous manner that demonstrates excellent customer service in all communications with customers.
• Provide a comprehensive information service to all customers, advising on services, policies, procedures of the organisation to either inform or resolve the needs of the customer.
• To use sound judgement and take decisions within the established procedures/policies for each service request including logging, processing and progress chasing enquiries or repairs requests whilst adhering to the procedures, policies, service standards and key performance targets to maximise customer satisfaction.

Skills

Customer service

Reception

Education

Customer Service Qualifications

Job description

Customer Service Officer - 14-Month Fixed Term Contract

Chime Housing

Salary: £30,386 - 37 hours per week

The Vacancy

37 hours per week - this will be an office-based role, with a review of working from home once probation has been passed

Introduction to the role

We work with our customers and communities to change lives, and we're looking for a highly motivated Customer Service Officer to join our Customer Service Team and help us deliver an exceptional experience to our customers.

As a Customer Services Officer, you will act as the \"voice and face\" of Chime Housing and be instrumental in enhancing the customer experience by exceeding customer needs whilst supporting the team to achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within a call centre.

Role purpose

We put the customer at the heart of everything that we do and take a proactive approach for each customer contact through multi-channel communication. As part of our Customer Service team, you will use your communication skills to help us deliver high-quality customer services.

The right candidate will be highly customer-focused and committed to delivering quality services to our residents, and work effectively and proactively with colleagues to give our customers an exceptional customer experience.

What's the role?

Key Accountabilities:

• Be the first point of contact for the organisation's customers, assisting with a range of enquiries and liaising with other staff members as required.


• Assess and resolve enquiries, requests and complaints by telephone, email, online or face to face as reasonably possible.


• Effective administration of the repairs process to include call handling, email responses, diagnosing faults, raising jobs, allocating and issuing jobs, managing work in progress, updating, and completing works on the system in a timely and effective manner.


• Focus on creating a first-time resolution for the customer ensuring queries are dealt with where possible at first point of contact, taking ownership to resolve queries effectively.


• Apply sound judgement to resolve customer queries in relation to repairs and maintenance. Doing so in a timely manner as well as managing such queries sensitively and effectively through to satisfactory resolution.


• Provide accurate repairs advice to customers.


• Demonstrating empathy, professionalism and the ability to manage conflict, achieving a balance between requirements of customers and internal stakeholders.


• Acting as a key point of contact for customer enquiries and signposting customer queries appropriately.


• Ensuring that all customer enquiries and requests are dealt with in a prompt, courteous manner that demonstrates excellent customer service in all communications with customers.


• Provide a comprehensive information service to all customers, advising on services, policies, procedures of the organisation to either inform or resolve the needs of the customer.


• To use sound judgement and take decisions within the established procedures/policies for each service request including logging, processing and progress chasing enquiries or repairs requests whilst adhering to the procedures, policies, service standards and key performance targets to maximise customer satisfaction.

What are we looking for?

Essential:

• At least 2 years' experience in Customer Service / Reception


• Qualifications in Customer Service / Customer Care


• You will need to maintain a satisfactory basic level DBS check

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the housing sector


• Be able to engage effectively with a diverse audience using a varied range of communication tools

View full Job Description HERE

Who you'll work with

• Responsible to: Customer Service Senior / Customer Service Team Leader


• Department: Customer Service Team

What can we offer you?

• 28 days' annual leave (pro rata)


• Employer pension contribution of up to 11%


• Development opportunities


• Comprehensive employee rewards scheme

How we work

We embrace agile working - blending time in our communities, shared spaces, and remote working. With digital technology at the heart of our approach, we empower teams and individuals to work flexibly.