Revenues and Benefits Customer Service Advisor
Sittingbourne, Kent
Temporary 16 weeks
Monday - Friday (30 hours)
£16.09 PAYE
Social Housing Experience Needed
Daniel Owen are proud to be representing a well-known company based in the Sittingbourne, Kent area who are looking for a highly skilled Revenues and Benefits Customer Service Advisor to join their team.
Duties - Revenues and Benefits Customer Service Advisor
* To answer phone calls relating to Revenues & Benefits in a timely manner, always ensuring high levels of customer To interpret queries/problems that are generated by customers in order to generate solutions to meet their needs whilst the customer is on the phone with you
* Promote and encourage self service and online services, including ebilling and client wide notifications, whilst recognising vulnerability and where there may be the need to support residents through their enquiry
* To ensure confidentiality of all evidence/information held on all systems accessed
* Ensuring customer data is up to date, this includes correct spellings of names, adding first names to accounts/profiles, email addresses and telephone numbers
* Through active listening and conversation have an awareness of other support and benefits/assistance that customers may be entitled to and signposting customers as appropriate
* Responsibility for recognising signs of fraudulent claims, understand what key information should be recorded and following the correct referral process
* To apply operating standards when responding to each enquiry and to follow the clients complaints procedure when appropriate Tasks to be carried out with customer on the phone include:
* Setting up Tax arrangements and payment plans for customers
* Reprofile Tax accounts to ensure instalments are correct
* Make changes to customers payment method and instalment due dates as well as taking payments and signposting to self service
* Set up direct debits
* Send copy bills on request