Complaints Team Leader

The Riverside Group; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Complaints Team Leader
Contract Type: 6 months Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £45,000
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday-Friday
Location: London

If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.

The difference you will make as a Complaints Team Leader

You will be accountable for a team of complaints professionals, ensuring they are delivering against all objectives and performance measures and providing complaint resolution service to customers ensuring an empathetic approach at point of contact.

About you

We are looking for someone with:

• Knowledge of the Housing Ombudsman’s complaint handling code.
• Customer first ethos and the ability to elicit customer needs quickly and deliver to those needs, where possible.
• Excellent coaching skills with the ability to drive performance.

Why Riverside?

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

• Flexible working options available.
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology.
• A wide range of benefits.

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:

We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.

This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Role Profile

• To support the Complaints Operations Manager to actively & visibly champion the customer and embed a coaching & performance culture across the team.
• To maximise team productivity, quality of service and customer satisfaction through an innovative approach.
• The CTL will lead and develop their team to create a culture that encourages individual autonomy and freedom to solve customer problems within milestones.
• The CTL is accountable for the performance and delivery of their team and is responsible for the management and continuous development of people, processes, systems and governance within the complaints process working with the Operations Manager and Head of Complaints.
• The CTL will ensure that all complaints and disputes are investigated or reviewed fairly and impartially, using an evidence-based approach.
• The CTL will ensure that the team are working efficiently and effectively and in accordance with agreed performance targets, service standards and quality standards.
• The CTL will work closely with other key areas of the business to share learnings and to ensure delivery of service improvements as a result of customer feedback.
• Lead on local improvement activity.
• Work with the wider Complaints leadership team to create a highly engaged workforce within the group Complaints Centre of Excellence.
• To ensure knowledge of Riverside policies & processes is maintained in order to support colleagues with more complex enquiries & resolve issues where intervention at a more senior level is necessary.
• Manage the operational performance of a team of between 8 to 10 Complaint colleagues.
• Allocate casework appropriately and monitor completion of work in line with officer’s targets to contribute to Riverside’s corporate objectives.
• Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and statutory obligations within their team including QA being delivered.

Person specification

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of the Housing Ombudsman’s complaint handling code.
• Customer first ethos and the ability to elicit customer needs quickly and deliver to those needs, where possible.
• Excellent coaching skills with the ability to drive performance.
• Experience of complaint handling.
• Knowledge of identifying service improvements as a result of feedback, service failures and complaints.
• Experience of managing and developing a new team.
• Provision of providing high quality business focused customer service.
• Proven track record within a customer service environment.
• Outcome and solution focused with ability to show initiative and propose solutions to issues identified.
• Strong organisation skills with the ability to prioritise conflicting demands.
• Resilience and tenacity to see things through to conclusion.
• Excellent team player able to work in collaboration and flexible to meet business requirements.