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As a Customer Services Administrator you will contribute to the effective and efficient management and progression of cases, providing administrative support to the local Family Court Advisers and Service Managers.
Should you join us your tasks will include:
- Supporting and contributing to organisational wide activities to meet statutory and professional responsibilities with regard to safeguarding children
- Receipt and check information on new complaints received via post, email or over the telephone
- Input data/information onto databases, or other electronic retention and retrieval system, as required
- To support the Customer Services Team with outstanding complaints and SARs through the agreed process and keep records as up to date as possible at all stages
- To process SAR requests and ensure the agreed timescale for completion is met
Job description
We are recruiting for the role of Customer Services Administrator in our teams working from the National Business Centre in Coventry.
You will provide support to the complaints element of the customer services team to ensure effective business support is given to service user and colleagues by using specialised databases, e.g. Case Management System (CMS) and ECF as required.
The Customer Services Administrators are responsible for logging and tracking incoming complaints and Subject Access Requests (SARs) and ensuring all agreed timescales are met.
Cafcass trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment, and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures.
We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.
We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Person specification
A relevant qualification in business administration (e.g. NVQ2), or a willingness to work towards to a qualification and/or significant experience in a similar role- A minimum of two years experience in a complaints environment
- Confident and capable of using MS Office applications to a basic / intermediate level
- Clear, confident communicator via email, phone and in person
- Someone who thrives working in a team
- Able to prioritise work in a fast-moving environment with strict deadlines
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Benefits
- 28 days holiday (including three for Christmas) rising to 33 days with five years continuous service, which could include your current employment. You can also buy more holiday or sell any you do not need.
- 19.4% employer contribution to Local Government Pension scheme, potentially building on your current pension.
- Most colleagues work in a hybrid way, having the benefits of working both from the office and home, we also accommodate flexible working requests (e.g. 9-day fortnights).
- Generous discounts with wide range of companies covering leisure, technology, travel, personal finance, fashion and supermarkets.
- This list is just a selection of main benefits and we have a range of policies and processes that allow us to support our colleagues - and their families – and we look forward to providing you with further information about these in due course.
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Below we have given you an indication of a timetable we are hoping to work towards, although dates are subject to change.
Closing date:
Sunday 23 July 2023
Final Interview:
Friday 28 July 2023
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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