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Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

At Onward we’re working towards creating positive spaces, which extends to not only to the communities we serve but to our workplaces being positive spaces that are open, diverse and inclusive. Onward is committed to being a diverse and inclusive organisation in every aspect of our work.

We are looking for 5 Customer Service Specialists to join our Customer Services team.

Working as part of a great team, your focus will be on help and advice to new and existing customers. You will be handling inbound telephone calls, e-mails and social media requests from existing customer s and also people who are looking for a home with us. Your role will be to help people with a wide variety of enquiries associated with their tenancy from raising and appointing repairs, managing their payments or helping customers to apply for a new home.

We are looking for people who have experience of working in a customer service, contact centre based environment, who can manage multi channel contacts efficiently using a wide range of ICT packages. You must be able to manage a varied workload whilst achieving priorities and objectives. Excellent communication and listening skills are essential in order to deliver a high quality service.

This role will be based at our Accrington office and will predominately work from that office, although some travel to other offices/sites may be required. Some flexibility may be offered to enable ad-hoc working from home from time to time. Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday 8am – 6pm. Full time colleagues work 35 hours per week across the opening hours on a shift rotation basis.

As well as a competitive salary and a generous annual leave entitlement, we offer a range of benefits for a rewarding career including a health cash plan, pension scheme and personal development.

If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to Covid-19 and the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [email protected] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.