Casual Customer Services Advisor

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Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: SK2 pro rata (£12.60 per hour plus £1.52 rolled up holiday pay)

Contract: Fixed term (18th August 2025 to 26th September 2025)

To provide a high quality, multi-disciplined and effective customer service ensuring that any enquiry is responded to in a timely, accurate and efficient manner. (The duties and responsibilities attached to the job may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed).

• Receive and assist customers visiting and contacting the Council via any means of communication to the highest standards of customer care as specified in the Customer Service Standards.

• Provide customer services across the waste service functions on behalf of the Council.

• Record all contacts in the Customer Relationship Management System (CRM). If unable to deal with an enquiry, then identify service specialists and make appropriate transfer to ‘back office’.

• Interpretation of customer enquiry to establish correct management of enquiry which could include signposting, part completion or full resolution.

• Use comprehensive IT systems to manage enquiries, access information and to provide customers update information on outstanding enquiries (access and updating of administrative systems in ‘back office’ sections may be required).

• Actively encourage and promote the use of self service, supporting customers to do so face to face and over the telephone in a call centre environment.

• At all times, act as an ambassador for the customer service centre and South Kesteven District Council and assisting communications and/or liaison with staff in service sections, senior management, Councillors, members of the public and other agencies.

• Proactively help to resolve complaints including them on the CRM database and advising customers of applicable Complaints Procedures.

This role is not politically restricted.