Customer Service Advisor

Job Title: Customer Service Advisor

Location: Moorgreen Hospital, Southampton SO30 3JB

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday

Employer: NHS Professionals

Role type: Temporary for 6 months with possibility of becoming permanent

If you’re great with people, enjoy helping others and passionate about giving advice, a Customer Service career at NHS Professionals could be a great choice for you.

Join us and you’ll be part of a customer-focussed community, receiving first-class training, and exceptional career development opportunities, within a culture truly driven by care.

We are recruiting for a Customer Service Advisor (Internally Known as Flexible Worker Advisor)

Role Details

In this busy and exciting role, you will receive and respond to queries from our workers and support them with their shift booking. The aim of the on-site team is to facilitate filling bank shifts whilst ensuring the workers requirements are also met or exceeded. But this isn’t just any customer service role – every call our Customer Support Advisors answer, and every query we resolve, helps support healthcare professionals working in NHS trusts and hospitals across the country.

We are particularly proud of being the first NHS organisation to gain the accreditation of Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute.

We are seeking candidates with:

• Customer service experience in an environment where delighting the customer is the core focus
• Administration experience
• Ability to deal with high volume internal and external customer enquiries and conflicting priorities
• Advanced ability to connect and communicate effectively in writing, face to face and over the telephone with a wide range customers
• Proactive approach to relationships and trouble shooting
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively
• Prioritising conflicting workloads
• Key to success in this role is to establish strong working relationships and to be able to prioritise tasks.

This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years relevant experience.

You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS  
2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times  
3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation 

You’ll have the following skills/experience:

• Ability to plan and organise work to meet deadlines.
• Excellent telephone manner
• Relationship building
• Reliable and organised paying attention to detail, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Car driver (desirable but not essential)

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
• Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
• Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
• Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
• Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
• Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

Disclaimer

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