Customer Relationship Officer - Switchboard & Exception Line Payments

Salary: £34,939

Grade Level 2, Zone 1

Location: 5 Pancras Square

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

Hours: 36 Hours, Full Time

Closing date: Sunday 30th August 2026; 23:55

About Camden

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. We’re not just home to the UK’s fast-growing economy, we’re also home to the most important conversations happening today, and we’re making radical social change a reality, so nobody gets left behind. This is an exciting time to join our team at Contact Camden in their offices at the 5 Pancras Square, providing a variety of key front line services as a Customer Relationship Officer.

The role

Contact Camden is the public facing hub of the London Borough of Camden, and with almost 1,000,000 contacts each year, our role is to ensure a great experience for every citizen that contacts us.

In this role you will be working as part of a team to promptly answer and manage incoming calls from the main switchboard line and the exceptions payment line. You will be expected to work as part of a team to provide high quality customer care within an Omni Channel Contact Centre. The service operates Monday to Friday from 8am-6pm, but the needs of our residents are paramount, so a flexible approach to work is important.

This is an exciting time to join our team at Contact Camden in their offices at the 5 Pancras Square with a team providing first point of contact through multiple channels and working collaboratively to achieve our purpose - ‘Build trust in Camden, empower citizens and change lives’.

We have a big focus on development – this means getting you involved in projects/improvements, having career conversations and getting you ready for your next step and your Team Manager/Performance Coaches will hold regular coaching conversations with you to support you in improving the quality of your customer conversations.

For more information please refer to the job profile by clicking on the below link:

http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/11817398/file/document?inline

All About You

Ideally, we’re looking for someone who has excellent customer service skills and previous experience of working in an omni channel customer service environment.

Most importantly, the right candidate must show positivity, take ownership of customer contact to ensure a resolution for the citizen, be self-motivated, enjoy working with people and take pride in delivering a high-quality customer service for the people of Camden.

You will demonstrate the ability to resolve front line customer service enquiries and take decisions to a high standard across multi channels. You will work flexibly with the ability to move across services and channels to respond proactively to changes in customer demand.

You will strive to continuously improve citizen satisfaction with the services delivered playing an integral role building positive relationships and working in a relational way with our customers, gathering feedback and taking a solution-based approach. You will be able to identify and feedback on the barriers our citizens face when accessing Council services. You will have great interpersonal skills and the emotional intelligence to identify and meet the needs of the citizen via phone, email, face to face and social media.

You will also take personal responsibility for making appropriate decisions for our customers with minimal supervision.

We’re looking for someone who has excellent customer service skills and previous experience of working in an omni channel customer service environment.

If you feel you can demonstrate the skills, knowledge and behaviours outlined above then we would love to hear from you.

For more information regarding this role please refer to the job profile.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details of our excellent benefits scheme

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at [email protected] or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.