This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Location:
Spennymoor, County Durham
Salary:
Up to £33,188 per annum, plus Local Govt. Pension Scheme and other benefits
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full-Time (37 per week)
Are you a natural problem-solver with a can-do attitude? We have an opportunity for you to join our Customer Experience and Insight Team. Sometimes we don’t get things right first time and we need to make sure we learn from this to stop it happening again. This dynamic role will co-ordinate the development and delivery of our excellent customer feedback service across all customer contact channels.
About us
We are an award-winning not for profit housing association that currently owns nearly 9,000 homes across County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our places. We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, sustainable and adaptable, while meeting tenants’ current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into work and training and increase their financial confidence and stability.
Our Plan A sets out our strategy for a realistic path to success. It's flexible. It can cope with the things we do not yet know. Importantly it’s cohesive, ensuring we are working together with our teams, partners, tenants and residents to maximise the impact we can make by improving lives through the provision of sustainable homes and places.
About the role
You will work within the Customer Experience and Insight Team and support the Complaints and Feedback Manager in ensuring the smooth running of the Customer Complaints and Feedback service, ensuring an excellent customer experience and that the regulatory requirements for complaints are always complied with.
Your focus will be on providing outstanding support to all staff in handling complex and/or contentious customer feedback issues to ensure that giving customer feedback is an excellent and positive customer experience
You will also support the Complaints and Feedback Manager in the supervision of the Customer Feedback Assistant.
About you
Dealing with our diverse customer base, you will be skilled in analysing and interpreting data to develop interventions that amplify the customer voice to deliver a first-class customer experience. Possessing excellent interpersonal qualities, you will use your knowledge of customer service principles to continually improve our customer feedback performance, whilst using your experience of dealing with customer complaints to report on trends and emergent issues.
Benefits
To see the fantastic benefits available to our employees, please visit here
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Ange Smurthwaite, Customer Experience Manager, via email at ange.smurthwaite@livin.co.uk
The Company
We are an award winning not for profit housing association based in County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our communities.
We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, efficient and adaptable, while meeting your current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into employment and qualifications and increase their financial confidence and stability.
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The following explains how we Livin Housing (Controllers) intend to use the information you provide in your application, along with your rights, our reasons for requesting it and who will have access to it.
As defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Livin Housing is the Data Controller and ultimately responsible for ensuring the data you provide is kept secure, processed correctly and that you understand your legal rights in relation to the data you provide.
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The types of information we collect and the sources
This notice covers the information you share with us and/or which may be acquired by third parties during the application or recruitment process including (but not limited to):
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Your information will be used by Livin for the purposes of carrying out its application and recruitment process which includes:
Assessing your skills, knowledge, experience, values, behaviours, qualifications, and interests against our career opportunities.
Verifying your information and carrying out reference checks and/or conducting background checks (where applicable) if you are offered a job.
Communications with you about the recruitment process and/or your application(s), including, in appropriate cases, informing you of other potential career opportunities at Livin.
Making improvements to Livin’s application and/or recruitment process including improving diversity in recruitment practices.
Complying with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.
Proactively conducting research about your educational and professional background and skills and contacting you if we think you would be suitable for a role with us.
Statistical analysis.
If you are offered and accept employment with Livin, the information collected during the application and recruitment process will become part of your employment record.
We use some automated screening tools as part of this application process. The answers you provide to one or more of the questions (excluding any special categories/equal opportunity questions) may result in your application being automatically declined. This technology is used to help us manage the high volume of applications we receive and can assure applicants the same outcome would occur if we manually reviewed your application. The reason for the decline will be made available to you in your candidate account.
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Who will have access to your information?
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Livin may also use service providers acting on Livin’s behalf to perform some of the services described above including for the purposes of the verification/background checks.
Livin may sometimes be required to disclose your information to external third parties such as regulatory bodies and/or law enforcement agencies for the purposes of complying with applicable laws and regulation in response to a legal process.
All service providers and external third parties are required to complete a Third-Party Information Security Assessment to ensure they comply with GDPR and Data Security obligations.
How do we store your personal information?
If you apply for a job at Livin and your application is unsuccessful (or withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Livin will retain your personal information for 24 months after the vacancy has closed. After this period, it will be fully anonymised and purged from the networx system.
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We are dedicated to providing reasonable access to visitors who wish to review the personal information retained when they apply via our website site and correct any inaccuracies it may contain. If you choose to register, you may access your profile, correct and update your details, or withdraw your details at any time. To do this, you can access your personal profile by using the secure login. In all cases we will treat requests to access information or change information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
You have the following rights in relation to the way in which we deal with your personal data:
the right of erasure or to be forgotten- You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
the right to rectification- You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. the right of data portability You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing- You have the right to object to Networx and the controller and processors handling of your personal data in certain circumstances
the right to withdraw your consent with regards to the handling of your personal data
Subject Access request- you have the right to ask for a copy of your personal information that we hold about you
Within your candidate account, you can also use the Download Data feature to generate an XML file of the current data we hold about you that you have provided and/or have access to within the account.
Where you exercise your right to object or withdraw your consent, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where we are permitted or required by law or regulatory requirements to do so. In such a case, we will not process more personal data than is required under the circumstances.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at Livin Housing Limited, Farrell House, Arlington Way, DurhamGate, Spennymoor, County Durham, DL16 6NL.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
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