About the Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to become a customer service advisor within St John Ambulance. If you are passionate about customer service, we would love to hear from you.
The Retail Customer Service Advisor is responsible for delivering service excellence to all customers but with specific focus on retail customers. To provide an effective sales service via phone and email (cases), using our email management system to respond to customers queries across multiple channels, ensuring queries are dealt with in-line with SJA targets, Service Level Agreements and ensuring the customer has a great experience with us, ensuring training/supplies requirements and requests are dealt with accurately and efficiently, whilst maintaining the agreed internal/external service levels and meeting the organisations core values.
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
About You
You will have the ability to build strong and effective relationships with internal colleagues across all levels of the organisation and liaise/negotiate to ensure customer requirements area achieved within a timely manner
- To be able to produce effective and accurate written communication, dealing with incoming emails and cases for bookings and general enquires in a professional manner whilst meeting the service level agreement and individual targets
- To effectively deal and process inbound communications to the Customer Service department
- Perform any other duties commensurate with these responsibilities, the band of the post and skills and qualifications of the post-holder
To ensure you are successful in this role, you will be inducted into a fantastic training and coaching program to allow you to be Confident, Satisfied and Informed
We want our customer service team to be the best, so you will have a background in customer service, whether that be business to business or business to customer and have experience working over the phone and email.
Specific customer service and email management system will be given; however, you must have the knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Office/365 to an intermediate level.
About Us
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, providing first aid, keeping people safe at events and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people learn how to save a life through our training, education and youth programmes.
Over the next decade, we have bold ambitions to help transform out-of-hospital care, having a positive impact on the people we treat and the communities we serve.
We are a team of 1,600 employees and 18,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through first aid.
You will receive:
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Competitive salary & pension scheme
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Cycle to work scheme
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Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
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Discounts – you’ll have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym memberships, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping.
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Application Review Date: 14/04/2023
We may review applications before the Application Review Date, however, if you apply after the Application Review Date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role.
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here.
For all other candidates, or SJA volunteers wishing to apply, please see below
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, so are particularly interested in applications from women, trans and non-binary people, as well as those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and those with different accessibility needs.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any speculative CVs submitted without invitation will not be considered