Job description
Terms and Conditions: Permanent, 37 hours per week
Department: Customer Services
Interviews will take place week commencing 15th September 2025
Our customers deserve to receive fantastic service, and we are focused on making life easier for our customers by providing high quality customer service.
In our customer service team, we provide front-line support for a wide range of council services across all contact channels, including:
* Telephone, email, social media and live chat in our contact centre
* Face to face services in our 3 reception centres in the borough.
Staff will be trained to deal with specific enquiries across all channels and varied services, dependent on your experience.
The services that we handle are diverse and include Adult Social Care, Council Tax and Benefits, Registrars, environmental services such as Household Waste and Recycling and street services such as Highways, Streetlighting and Parking Services.
For each of our services, it is important that you have strong empathy, communication, listening and questioning skills. You also need to have patience as we deal with some difficult situations, ultimately to get the best outcome for our customers.
We use multiple systems to assist our customers so you must have strong IT skills and the ability to summarise a customer enquiry in a concise written format.
Successful candidates must have the ability to retain extensive service knowledge and will receive in depth training and support to allow them to excel in this fulfilling role.
If you are flexible, friendly, up for a challenge and already have a taste for giving great customer service, then why not join the Customer Service Team, it's a great place to work
Along with the application form, please upload your CV and a covering letter. Your CV and covering letter must outline how you meet the role profile and key requirements.
If you have applied for this role within the last 6 months and have been unsuccessful, please do not reapply as we will not consider your application.
Please note that the listing may be closed before the closing date should sufficient applicants have been received.
Job details
Job reference
REQ04280
Date posted
01/09/2025
Application closing date
14/09/2025
Location
Blackburn with Darwen
Salary
Grade D, SCP 5-8 £25,583 - £26,824 per annum
Package
Blank
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Council