Inbound Enquiry Centre Advisors - Stafford

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Stafford, Staffordshire, England, GBR
In-Office
26K-26K Annually
Entry level
Professional Services
The Role
Provide empathetic telephone support to new and existing PIP claimants, handling enquiries, booking appointments, resolving simple and complex issues, accurately entering data, and completing administrative tasks. The role requires teamwork, flexibility, attention to detail, and a professional customer-focused approach while working scheduled contact-centre shifts and attending the Stafford office at least three days weekly.
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Company Description

Discover better with a career at Capita.

We’re helping people unlock their value and potential, giving them access to a huge range of unique and diverse opportunities, which offer real career progression.

This is our purpose, and it defines our very existence. We provide an inclusive and diverse environment for our people to thrive, develop and realise their true potential. Whoever you are and whatever your background, we want you to be yourself.

Our commitment to finding better solutions for our clients has seen us become one of the UK’s leading providers of consulting, digital services, and software.

We're proud to work with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department for Communities (DfC) for the provision of the Health Assessment Advisory Service (HAAS), which includes Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

Capita pride themselves on delivering the entire PIP process to the highest standards.

Job Description

Salary: Starting at £26,227.50

Non-sales environment, taking inbound service calls.

You will be based at your home address with an assigned office in The Riverway Centre, Stafford, which you will attend minimum of 3 days each week. The in-office days will be a Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

This is a full-time role - 37.5 hrs per week, Monday to Friday between 8.00 am and 8.00 pm with some Saturday between 9am and 5pm.

We are looking for Inbound Enquiry Centre Advisors to join our expanding customer service team on a full-time permanent basis in Stafford, UK.

The role involves providing a high-quality claimant experience by telephone to new and existing claimants of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) who are looking to place a new claim for PIP or are already receiving the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and are at the point of renewing their benefit.  Our customer service teams are responsible for resolving both simple and complex issues for a whole range of customers as well as completing administrative tasks. 

Key Accountabilities:

  • Answering calls from claimants/representatives and dealing with queries such as appointment bookings, in a professional and effective manner, ensuring the highest standard of claimant experience.
  • Accurate data input, with attention to detail for completion of administrative tasks.
  • Any other duties that may be deemed necessary by the business to ensure successful delivery of the PIP assessment service.

Qualifications

  • Good listening skills – able to understand customer problems and give clear and concise explanations.
  • The ability to work well within a team and demonstrate flexibility to meet the needs and expectations of the team/business.
  • The ability to take ownership of issues, resolving wherever possible at the initial stage of the enquiry.
  • Polite and professional telephone manner, showing respect and empathy to callers.
  • Genuine enthusiasm for customer service.
  • Good time management.
  • High attention to detail and accurate data inputting.
  • Ability to work a range of shift patterns during contact centre opening hours.
  • Be adaptable to change in a constantly shifting environment.

Additional Information

We have a training programme starting 11th January 2027 so you will need to be able to commit to this. We cannot approve any annual leave within the first 6 weeks of training.

All offers will be subject to satisfactory completion of Baseline Personnel Security Standard vetting, which includes a basic criminality check.

Benefits:

  • Starting salary £26,227.50
  • Discretionary quarterly performance bonus.
  • 25 days annual leave plus 8 statutory holidays.
  • Opportunities to progress and develop a rewarding career with a FTSE 100 company (over 70% of our managers are home-grown).
  • Company matched pension (we will contribute up to 5% of your salary), life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more.
  • Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel, and technology.
  • The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice.
  • Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.
  • Employee assistance programme – 24/7 support and advice on personal or work matters.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident Leader, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email [email protected] and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. Adaptations are available on request. For further information or to discuss any reasonable adjustments you may need, please contact us on [email protected].

Skills Required

  • Good listening skills and ability to understand customer problems and provide clear, concise explanations
  • Ability to work effectively within a team and demonstrate flexibility
  • Ability to take ownership of issues and resolve enquiries at the initial stage where possible
  • Polite and professional telephone manner with respect and empathy for callers
  • Genuine enthusiasm for customer service
  • Good time management
  • High attention to detail and accurate data inputting
  • Ability to work varied shifts during contact-centre opening hours
  • Ability to adapt to change in a shifting environment
  • Commitment to the training programme starting 11 January 2027, with no annual leave during the first six weeks
  • Satisfactory completion of Baseline Personnel Security Standard vetting, including a basic criminality check
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The Company
24,363 Employees
Year Founded: 1984

What We Do

Capita Personal Independence Payment (PIP), part of Capita’s Health Assessment Advisory Service, delivers outsourced functional and clinical assessments for government benefits. It evaluates how claimants’ health conditions or disabilities affect daily activities and work-related capability, then prepares evidence-based reports and clinical recommendations for public authorities. The service supports PIP and Work Capability Assessments for the DWP and, in Northern Ireland, the DfC.

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