Revenues Officer (Recovery)
Lowestoft, United Kingdom2h ago
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Key details
- Salary
- £30K–£32K/yr
- Location
- Lowestoft, United Kingdom
- Work style
- Remote
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- other
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 2h ago
Skills
About the role
- East Suffolk Council - Anglia Revenues Partnership
- Location: East Suffolk House, Melton IP12 1RT, Riverside, Lowestoft NR33 0EQ, Thetford IP24 1BT or March
- Salary: £29,542 - £32,046 per annum
- Hours: 37 hours per week
- Contract: 3 x Permanent posts
East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work and a great place to make a real difference to people’s lives, delivering vital services to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.
Be part of our successful Recovery team to collect outstanding Housing Benefit overpayments, council tax arrears, negotiate with debtors, maintain client records, apply appropriate recovery actions, and liaise with other revenues teams.
This will include communicating with the public, various Government bodies and enforcement agents.
Requirements of the roles:
- Team player and can work on own initiative
- Great communication skills – written and verbal
- Monitor client accounts to check payments received
- Excellent customer service skills
- Dealing with telephone contact from the public
- Accurately update computer systems & records
- Keep up in a fast-paced partnership environment
- Liaise with other departments, Citizens Advice and Enforcement Agents
- Ability to work from home where necessary
- Can be based at any of the ARP offices
- And above all enthusiasm!
Why work for us?
East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, take a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work (YouTube).
Here are some of the main benefits:
- Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
- Local government pension scheme
- Flexible working arrangements
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.
Find more information about what we offer in our benefits brochure (pdf).
The majority of our teams are working in an agile way, with a mixture of home and office working, depending on individual preferences and service requirements. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements if you were the successful candidate, please contact the recruiting manager listed at the bottom of this advert.