Customer Services Advisor

We are currently looking for a Customer Services Advisor to join our Customer Services Team based at St. Peter's Hospital. The post is to provide a 24/7 Switchboard Service via an 8-week rota pattern, rostered hours are not negotiable, the job requires someone who is able to work days, nights, weekends and bank holidays, there is also an element of lone working on the night shift once full training has been completed. Also, to be an active member of the Estates and Facilities Helpdesk and provide administrative support to the senior management team. Switchboard is often the first contact for patients/visitors/GP's/companies and contractors, who contact the Trust and therefore the initial impression you give is what counts, therefore good communication skills are essential for this job role. You will play a key role in enabling the Customer Services function to maintain and develop relationships with Service End Users by effectively handling enquiries on a wide range of service-related issues. You must have strong communication skills, be good at problem solving skills and the awareness of the need for good customer care. Main duties of the job To work as part of a team of Customer Service Advisors on a busy switchboard, providing a quality response service to Trust employees, members of the general public, and other health organisations and provide a 'one stop shop' Helpdesk Service for staff. It is imperative to have a good understanding of the wide range of written procedures and practices of the Switchboard equipment and its operation, to ensure the smooth and safe operation of the centralised Switchboard service. Accurate record keeping including, fault reporting, emergency calls received and made, alarm activations, major incidents and system failures. To operate the Estates and Facilities Helpdesk, logging maintenance calls and printing and entering Facilities Department data, this includes having close working relationships with all other Trust Departments. The post involves a considerable amount of liaison with other members of staff and the general public. Therefore it is essential the post holder ensures that they adopt a courteous, friendly and professional manner at all times. Benefits The full range of NHS benefits and discounts. Job responsibilities To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work. Switchboard Role + To provide a Centralised Switchboard Service to both Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals. + To ensure that Service Level Agreements negotiated by the Telecommunications Manager with other health and non health organisations for the delivery of Switchboard, Alarm monitoring, and a multitude of other operational duties, are adhered to in respect of service delivery, response, and quality. + Receive external telephone calls and route them to the correct hospital extension / Department / or individual. + Monitor progress of calls, routing them elsewhere if the extension is engaged or not responding. + Receive internal telephone calls from hospital extensions and route them via Telephonist dialling to an external destination. + Receive requests for paging of individual staff, initiate paging call and connect the person being paged with the telephone extension. + Respond immediately to requests for emergency group or individual voice over paging. + To work effectively as part of a team and an individual to ensure that department and personal targets are achieved. + Accurate record keeping too include, fault reporting, emergency calls received and made, alarm activations, major incidents, equipment received and forwarded from the Department and system failures. Job Data by YubHub .