Job title - Senior Complaints Officer
Location - London
Contract - Temp - Ongoing
Start Date: Asap
Salary: £27.13 Umbrella P/H
Our client is seeking a Senior Complaints Officer to join their team. The company is a high-profile organisation that is dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the city. The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting the team to manage and respond to complaints effectively.
Job Responsibilities:
- Act as a point of contact for residents wishing to raise a complaint or general enquiry.
- Provide an effective front-line housing information and advice service and deal proactively with complaints and enquiries.
- Manage and draft responses to enquiries from Cabinet members, MPs, and Ombudsman ensuring that deadlines for responses are met.
- Support the creation of case files for the Housing Ombudsman.
- Manage all recommendations made by the Housing Ombudsman in its final determination report.
- Ensure the complaints system is maintained and complaints and enquiries are recorded within target times.
- Support and train officers in their use of the complaints database.
- Produce performance reports for the complaints and enquiries service and undertake monitoring/auditing tasks as directed by the team manager.
- Manage information within the Housing Team to ensure responses to complaints and enquiries are comprehensive and meet the requirements of the City Council and Housing Ombudsmen.
- Produce an overview for the complaints and enquiries regarding contract performance.
Requirements:
- Experience of investigating complex complaint investigations, particularly for the Housing Sector or with the Housing Ombudsman.
- Ability to reach a balanced outcome when you do not have enough evidence to support/disprove the complaint.
- Can write a technical response in lay terms to ensure it is understood.
- Evidence of contacting residents to understand their complaint and to explain your decision over the phone.
- Can work collaboratively to ensure resolution to complaints/tracking actions and escalating cases/issues where there are identified or emerging risks.
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