Admin Officer – Telephony.

We are currently recruiting for AO’s based in Belfast city centre. The successful candidates will be required to start once the vetting paperwork and ANI completed.

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 51 weeks with possible extension

Hours of work: Full time 37 hours

The contracted hours are 8am – 8pm Monday – Friday and every 4th Saturday on a rota basis. However, at present staff are working various shift patterns between 9.00 – 5.00 Monday to Friday.

Rate of pay: £11.99

Duties will include:
Call handling
– Handling inbound calls from Paying Parents (PP), Receiving Parents (RP), and potentially Employers.
– Making Outbound calls to Paying Parents (PP), Receiving Parents (RP), and potentially Employers to retrieve maintenance payments including arrears and to ask for further information on evidence received.
– Managing customer’s expectations, taking the time to explain processes clearly and providing realistic and accurate timeframes for action to be completed.
– Collecting and recording evidence and information by phone to speed up the processing of new claims and to action ‘change of circumstance’ requests quickly and accurately to ensure paying cases continue paying.
– Handling all calls in a calm and professional manner

Other duties/responsibilities:
– Where appropriate, making decisions in relation to maintenance calculations and recording those decisions fully and accurately
– Making appropriate use of Child Maintenance computer systems to record and retrieve information
– Taking efficient and effective action on all incoming correspondence to deliver a high-quality customer service
– Using available ‘tracking tools’ to manage own workload and contribute to achieving the organisations targets
– Ensuring adherence with GDPR by ensuring that all customer information is held appropriately and securely.

Essential Criteria:

– 5 GCSE’s A-C to include Maths and English (You must be able to provide proof)

**Please note that successful applicants will be required to complete an AccessNI check**

To apply please send your CV via the link or email

Alana.mccoy@therecruitmentco.uk