Hmrc Customer Service Advisor - Portsmouth, United Kingdom - HM Revenue and Customs
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Salary:
- £25,082 - £25,082
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade: - Administrative Officer
Contract type: - Permanent
Business area: - HMRC
- Customer Service
- Other
- Across all Customer Services Business areas
Type of role: - Operational Delivery
Working pattern: - Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available: - 50Contents
About the job
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Things you need to know
Location
- PortsmouthAbout the job
Job summary:
Discover a career in your hands at HMRC.
Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC.
Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.At HMRC we have a vital purpose. We help people pay the correct amount of tax and provide financial support to families and individuals.
We make sure money is available to fund the UK's public services such as hospitals and schools, answering around 50 million calls and handling 15 million items of customer correspondence every year.
Our services support customers on behalf of the entire department, dealing with a broad range of different and complex customer enquiries.
This is a great chance to start your career with HMRC and we offer real opportunities to progress and develop your career with us or the wider Civil Service if you choose.
We're striving to be the best customer service organisation in the UK, and we need enthusiastic people to help us achieve this.
Job description:
Our Customer Service Advisors are the voice of HMRC, using their brilliant communications skills to give our customers the best possible experience.
The majority of roles available will be in our Debt Management Directorate.
The main duties will include:
- Speaking to customers on the phone, helping them with their questions or issues.
- Helping customers to pay the correct amount of tax at the right time.
- Discussing, calculating and collecting interest and penalties for late payments or late filing of tax returns.
- Taking payments by phone and via our online services.
- Creating customer records and keeping them up to date.
We work a variety of shifts between 7:45am and 8pm, Monday to Saturday, to make sure we can help customers when they need us.
You will work a maximum of one late shift per week (ending at 8pm) and a maximum of 6 Saturdays each year.
The majority of roles within customer services allow you to work from home two days a week if you choose, this includes Saturday and 8 pm shifts.
On the days you attend the office, you will be working in the location shown in the title heading of this advert.
However we do require you to complete your training in the office on a full-time basis, usually 6 weeks Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
You can find out more about what it's like being a Customer Service Advisor at HMRC on the Civil Service Careers website.
Our Professions
- Customer Service
Our Professions - Customer Services Group at HMRC
Our Customer Service Advisor role - all you need to know
Person specification:
What are we looking for?
No experience is necessary as you will be fully trained, but we would like you to be comfortable talking on the phone and discussing debt with our customers.
We are looking for individuals with the drive and passion to make a difference to people's lives, and need people:
- With great communication skills, both verbal and written in English language (and Welsh where required)
- Dedicated to providing a brilliant customer service
- With a cando attitude and a real passion for supporting people
- With the personal resilience to work in a demanding and rewarding environment
- Able to provide information both quickly and clearly
- Comfortable handling different types of conversations
- With an ability to do basic maths calculations
Benefits:
- Alongside your salary of £25,082, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £6,772 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what ben
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