Housing Complaint Officer - London, United Kingdom - Service Care
Description
Job title - Housing Complaints Officer
Location -Farringdon EC1M (hybrid working 2 days from home)
Contract - Temp Ongoing
Hours - Full Time
The Role Summary
Our client is looking for a Property Services Complaints Officer to provide comprehensive and qualitative responses to the resolution of Customer Complaints service
Your key duties within the role will include:
- The responsibility for investigating and responding to, complaints that have been allocated to you
- Excellent organisational / case management skills, with experience of prioritising your own workload, ensuring that complaints, dissatisfaction, MP, Councillor or Executive enquires are responded to within required timescales.
- To ensure all complaints and enquiries are dealt with in a professional manner.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to remain calm and resilient in any difficult situation.
- Proactively liaise with the complainant to keep them informed about progress and manage their expectations regarding a realistic outcome.
- Having a structured, objective and transparent approach to how you make decisions, being able to assess situations and understand risk
- Application of creative solutions to streamline and improve current processes
- Providing support and participating in special project work as and when required
- I can perform a variety of duties effectively, often changing from one task to another and can manage competing demands.
- Providing a comprehensive response addressing all issues raised by the complainant.
- Being financially capable of raising and monitoring compensation requests and recovering costs from contractor where necessary
- Continuous learning to ensure best practice for complaint handling and resolution
- To act upon feedback from the Service Improvement Team to improve complaint handling, resolution, and offers of redress
Key requirements
- Knowledge of the housing sector
- Awareness of the Housing Ombudsman code of practice
- Understanding of Complaints policy and procedure
- A logical, thorough, and analytical approach to problem solving
- Excellent written communication skills able to present and communicate in a clear, succinct, and compelling manner
- Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrates empathy with customers and avoids becoming defensive, passive, or aggressive when dealing with conflict.
- Ability to manage customer expectations and be clear about what can and can't be done
- Results oriented, works efficiently and accurately within set timescales
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