Customer Resolutions Support Officer WCC623992

As a Customer Resolution Support Officer in our Housing and Homelessness Service, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Playing a vital role in a front-line team responsible for responding to enquiries, complaints and requests from residents, you'll help directly improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

Ensuring cases are logged, progressed and communicated accurately and promptly, you'll use your judgement to screen and triage correspondence against acceptance criteria. Your day-to-day will be fast-paced and varied, so you'll take an organised, proactive approach to your work. Whether it's monitoring inboxes for enquiries or complaints, drafting resident correspondence, or providing advice and guidance, you'll put residents at the heart of everything you do.

An established professional with experience of providing administrative, triage or coordination support within a customer-facing service, you'll be confident handling enquiries, complaints and case-related correspondence. Having maintained accurate case records in a previous role, you'll be confident managing multiple tasks simultaneously to meet service standards and deadlines

On a personal level, you'll be a strong communicator with excellent active listening, organisational and prioritisation skills. Bringing empathy, sensitivity and strong attention to detail to everything you do, you'll be capable of keeping calm in emotive or challenging situations. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive, inclusive team making a direct impact on the lives of people experiencing homelessness, and to supercharge your career in the process.

Housing Needs in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. For Abbie, a Homelessness Officer, the work is often about stopping a crisis from happening at all

This might mean negotiating with landlords, working through financial difficulties with residents, or finding practical solutions that allow people to remain in their homes.

In one situation, Abbie worked with a resident who was at risk of losing their home after the rent became unaffordable and possession action had started. By working closely with the landlord, she took the time to understand what had driven the landlord to increase the rent and the residents' financial situation. Through careful negotiation, she was able to secure an affordable agreement that worked for both parties. The possession action was withdrawn and the resident was able to stay in their home.

At Westminster, we understand that homelessness is multifaceted and caused by various factors, and addressing homelessness often goes beyond providing emergency accommodation - it requires an in-depth understanding of the root causes. This is why, alongside her negotiation work with the landlord, Abbie worked with officers across the department and the wider Council to help maximise the resident's income. For Abbie, cases like this are not only about securing housing in the interim, they are about ensuring that residents are also able to sustain their tenancies in the long-term.

This kind of work requires persistence, judgement and empathy. Across Westminster, this is what our Housing Needs officers do every day: working with residents to turn difficult situations into new beginnings., Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.