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Valuation Office Agency

Customer Service Officer – Customer Service Centre - Durham

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<h4>Job summary</h4><p>The Head of Service Delivery, Customer Service, is a senior leadership role, responsible for providing visible and empowering leadership across multi-site service operations. The post holder will work closely with Service Delivery and Customer and Strategy Leadership teams to deliver efficient, high-quality customer focused service ensuring that the organisation meets its service standards and customer satisfaction targets.</p><p>Passionate about people and public service, the individual will be accountable for the delivery of high quality customer service across all contact points, including customer support centres and complaints resolution teams. The successful candidate will champion customer satisfaction, drive continual improvement initiatives, and foster a culture of excellence through effective coaching and leadership. This role directly supports the HMLR 2025 strategy of creating easy services for everyone. The Head of Customer Service will champion initiatives that streamline processes, enhance service efficiency, and ensure that every customer touchpoint reflects a commitment to excellence and inclusivity.<br><br>This is a prime opportunity for an experienced customer service leader to shape customer experience and drive service excellence in a multi-site hybrid environment. The Head of Customer Service plays a vital role in defining the organisation’s reputation by delivering effective, customer-centric solutions.<br><br>Success in this position requires strong stakeholder engagement skills, influence at all organisational levels, and a dedication to high service quality and accessibility.</p><p>Check out the video below to see what it is like working for our Service Delivery directorate.</p><p></p><h4>Job description</h4><p>The successful candidate will embed a culture of empowerment through a coaching approach to leadership, driving high performance, operational excellence, and strong leadership capability across the service. They will deliver improved outcomes for customers by ensuring effective performance across Customer Support Centres, Complaints, and Resolution Teams, promoting customer focus and continuous improvement at every opportunity.</p><p>They will champion innovation and efficiency by evolving the customer support framework, leveraging technology and customer insight, and enabling teams to identify and implement creative solutions to service delivery challenges.</p><p>Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, they will design and deliver services that meet customer needs, ensuring performance against agreed Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors. They will provide clarity and leadership through organisational change, supporting colleagues through transformation while maintaining service standards and adopting best practice and industry developments.</p><p>The successful candidate will collaborate effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders, using data and business intelligence to drive measurable improvements and influence service design, whilst creating an environment that supports capability development, talent management, and succession planning, fostering high-performing teams across multiple sites.</p><p>They will align strategies and policies with organisational objectives and customer needs, advocate for the customer voice in service improvement initiatives, and ensure robust governance and accountability by setting and monitoring Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators, while managing budgets and resources to deliver value for money.</p><h4>Person specification</h4><ul><li>Proven experience in a large multi-site and channel contact centre management, including complaint teams, demonstrating delivery of improved customer-focused outcomes. </li><li>Delivery of an improved customer experience at an organisational level</li><li>Proficient in analysing the Voice of the Customer; data, identifying trends, and using insights from customer feedback, complaints, and service metrics to drive evidence-based improvements and inform service enhancements</li><li>Ability to lead a high-performing culture and inspire teams to embrace new ways of working and continuous improvements. </li></ul><p>Due to the nature of the role regular travel to other HM Land Registry offices will be required, including some overnight stays. </p><p>Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.</p><p>For more information about the role and the full Person Specification, please see the attached Job Description.</p><h4>Behaviours</h4><p>We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:</p><ul><li>Managing a Quality Service</li><li>Changing and Improving</li><li>Making Effective Decisions</li><li>Leadership</li><li>Delivering at Pace</li></ul><h4>Benefits</h4>Alongside your salary of £75,731, HM Land Registry contributes £21,939 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. <a href="https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/memberhub/joining-the-pension-scheme/benefits-of-the-pension-scheme/" target="_blank"> Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.</a><p></p><p>#WeAreHMLR</p><p>At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.</p><p>We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.</p><ul><li><strong>We have integrity </strong>– we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.</li><li><strong>We drive innovation </strong>– we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.</li><li><strong>We are professional</strong> – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.</li><li><strong>We give assurance</strong> – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.</li></ul><p></p><h4>Things you need to know</h4><h4>Artificial intelligence</h4>Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our <a href="https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/" target="_blank">candidate guidance (opens in a new window)</a> for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.<h4>Selection process details</h4>This vacancy is using <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles" target="_blank">Success Profiles (opens in a new window)</a>, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.<p>To apply, you will need to complete the short application form and copy and paste your CV onto the online application form detailing your qualifications and work history.</p><p>Your CV will be assessed against the essential experience criteria detailed in the attached Job Description.</p><p>The Personal Statement section (in no more than 1,000 words) should be used to outline your wider skills and experience for the role and detail how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:</p><ul><li>Proven experience in a large multi-site and channel contact centre management, including complaint teams, demonstrating delivery of improved customer-focused outcomes. </li><li>Delivery of an improved customer experience at an organisational level</li><li>Proficient in analysing the Voice of the Customer; data, identifying trends, and using insights from customer feedback, complaints, and service metrics to drive evidence-based improvements and inform service enhancements </li><li>Ability to lead a high-performing culture and inspire teams to embrace new ways of working and continuous improvements. </li></ul><p>In the event of a high volume of applications for this vacancy, an initial sift will be conducted on your CV and a full sift only carried out on those applications that pass the initial sift stage.</p><p>Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.</p><p>The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a face to face interview at one of our HMLR offices and deliver a pre-prepared presentation, from week commencing 26th January 2026. Further details will be provided on invitation to interview.</p><p>The blended interview will assess the essential experience and behaviours listed in the Job Description, as well as the strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to the strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles" target="_blank">strengths questions</a> is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.</p><p>Please note that we will not be testing any of the desirable criteria throughout this process.</p><p>Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.</p><p>HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage may be invited to attend an interview. If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.</p><p><strong>Visa Sponsorship</strong></p><p>Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role <strong>does not </strong>meet that category, and <strong>we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa.</strong></p><p>You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. </p><p>You can <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-land-registry-job-applicant-personal-information" target="_blank">find more information on how we use your personal data on our website.</a></p><br><br>Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.<h4>Security</h4>Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-baseline-personnel-security-standard" target="_blank">baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window)</a> checks.<h4>Nationality requirements</h4><p>This job is broadly open to the following groups:</p><ul><li>UK nationals</li><li>nationals of the Republic of Ireland</li><li>nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK</li><li>nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families" target="_blank">European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)</a></li><li>nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)</li><li>individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020</li><li>Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service</li></ul><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules" target="_blank">Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)</a><h4>Working for the Civil Service</h4>The <a href="http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/code/" target="_blank">Civil Service Code (opens in a new window)</a> sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.<br><br>We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's <a href="https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-principles/" target="_blank">recruitment principles (opens in a new window)</a>.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.<h4>Diversity and Inclusion</h4>The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-plan-2024-2027/civil-service-people-plan-2024-2027-html" target="_blank">Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window)</a> and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy-2022-to-2025" target="_blank">Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window)</a>.<h4>Apply and further information</h4>This vacancy is part of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans" target="_blank">Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window)</a> initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. <a href="https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/prison-leaver-recruitment/" target="_blank">Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window)</a>.Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.<h4>Contact point for applicants</h4><h4>Job contact : </h4><ul><li>Name : Emma Ellis</li><li>Email : <a href="mailto:Emma.Ellis@landregistry.gov.uk" target="_blank">Emma.Ellis@landregistry.gov.uk</a></li></ul><h4>Recruitment team</h4><ul><li>Email : <a href="mailto:hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk" target="_blank">hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk</a></li></ul><h4>Further information</h4>If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email <a href="mailto:hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk" target="_blank">hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk</a> in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: <a href="http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/" target="_blank">http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/</a><br><br><h4>Attachments</h4><a href="https://files.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/admin/fairs/apptrack/download.cgi?SID=b3duZXI9NTA3MDAwMCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZkb2NfdHlwZT12YWMmZG9jX2lkPTEyNzY0OTQmdmVyaWZ5PTU3NjhlZjk0MGRkMWNlYjk1ZDhmMjkxZWJhMjAxNzNi" target="_blank">Head of Service Delivery - Customer Service Opens in new window</a> (pdf, 154kB)<a href="https://files.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/admin/fairs/apptrack/download.cgi?SID=b3duZXI9NTA3MDAwMCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZkb2NfdHlwZT12YWMmZG9jX2lkPTEyNzY0OTUmdmVyaWZ5PWYyZjQ1YWVjNTFlM2NkNmEyZDM1MzY4YzFiNWY4ZGVj" target="_blank">Service Delivery Candidate Pack 2026 Opens in new window</a> (pdf, 1677kB)

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