Inbound Customer Service Operative

Do you take pride in delivering the very best levels of customer service when you turn up to work in an office environment or maybe even in hospitality or retail role?

We have a new exciting challenge for you!

We are recruiting four Inbound Customer Service Operatives to act as the initial point of contact for all NHS SBS clients and staff to resolve their payroll and pensions queries. We will provide all the training and support for you to become a dedicated, knowledgeable member of the team, able to be flexible in you approach, whilst delivering excellent customer service.

This a hybrid role is predominantly home based with the teams spending each Monday in our new modern office setting in Southampton, overlooking the marina.

What you'll be doing:

• Resolving queries from both internal and external customers by telephone or email
• Providing clear, concise, and accurate information to customers and third parties, making sure that a positive and professional manner is deployed at all times
• Consistently deliver outstanding customer service levels whilst achieving standards set within contractually agreed time frames
• Effectively listening to customer queries and striving to resolve them on first contact, wherever possible
• Constructing suitable responses to queries from staff, HMRC and other outside organisations verbal and written and flexibly process multiple enquiries on multi customer payrolls.
• Working within set processes to Departmental Internal Controls and the financial framework determined by the client

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in a dedicated customer service environment, either face to face or in a telephony role
• Proficient at using MS Office (Word, Excel etc.)
• The ability to multitask and prioritise workloads
• Experience of working towards performance targets

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Southampton
Security Clearance Level: DBS
InternalRecruiter: Mark
Salary: £24,000 per annum
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support many ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.