Customer Service Assistant

Job title:

Customer Service Assistant

Company

Page Personnel

Job description

To be the first point of contact for all clients and their employees, providing a service that assists with timely and accurate payments. This call centre and customer service type role is to carry out all tasks within SLA time scales, following procedures, ensuring audit trails are maintained and spot checked for compliance. Delivering excellent customer service and the required results to support KPI’s by maintaining the key responsibilities.The key responsibilities for the Customer Service Assistant roles are:

• Responsible for dealing effectively with queries from customers (both internal and external) by telephone, email or in person, at all times conveying a professional and efficient attitude following customer service standards.
• To resolve as many, if not all, queries as possible during the initial contact
• To be proactive to customer needs and actively participate in customer service improvement
• Achieving standards set within the SLA for KPI needs on behalf of all trusts
• To provide clear, concise and accurate information to clients, their employees and third parties ensuring at all times that a positive and professional manner is deployed.
• Follow the guidelines laid out under the Data Protection Act
• Be proactive in ensuring that payroll staff achieve Key Performance Indicators in respect of call resolution
• Maintain a basic awareness of statutory regulations in respect of National and Local deductions from pay such as PAYE and NI.
• To construct suitable responses to queries from staff, HMRC and other outside organisations verbal and written.
• Flexibly process multiple enquiries on multi customer payrolls.
• Adherence to NHS SBS internal policies.
• Compliance to Departmental Internal Controls and the financial framework determined by the Client.

Hybrid workingLocal role based in SouthamptonThe successful candidate for the Customer Service Assistant role is someone with the following:Essential Skills

• The ability to work in a team
• Excellent Customer Service Skills
• Numerate and methodical
• Good pc skills, using Microsoft word, Excel and the ability to input from basic data source and produce basic spreadsheets
• The ability to multitask
• The ability to prioritise
• Basic understanding of Time Management.
• Understanding of performance targets
• Previous experience of working in an Customer service environment

Desirable Skills

• Able to analyse situations and explain to individuals in a variety of ways where necessary
• Standard Health & Safety manual handling skill.
• Previous experience resolving basic pay enquiries
• Worked with a range of different terms and conditions
• Worked on a shared services platform before
• Basic understanding of Payroll processes and deadlines
• Has an awareness of the law relating to payroll (i.e. data protection)
• Aware of PAYE, National Insurance and NHS Pension Scheme

Page Group are working with a well established company based in Southampton who are a proud members of the NHS family and market leaders in their field, they provide finance and accounting, digital, procurement, workforce, and bespoke support to more than half the NHS in England.The candidate for the Customer Service Assistant will receive the following:

• Competitive Salary
• Hybrid Working
• Holiday Package
• Pension Scheme

Expected salary

£25519 per year

Location

Southampton

Job date

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:14:29 GMT

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