Counter Assistant
Riada Resourcing
Phone Number: 02870326600Email: info@riadaresourcing.com
Web: www.riadaresourcing.com
Job description
Join the team at the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in Derry/Londonderry as a Counter Assistant. Apply now to express your interest in this role. About the role: £13.69 per hour Monday to Friday (9.00 am - 5.00 pm) 37 hours per week Holidays: 35 days pro rata Duration: Temporary, ongoing
Responsibilities
- Collect information to understand a customers need and accurately capture information on systems.
- Provide advice on housing benefit, universal credit, payments, repair requests, housing solutions and application support, properties available, planned maintenance, community issues.
- Provide assistance with reporting repairs, provision of documentation, form filling, reporting ASB.
- Signposting and passing customer requests to other officers and department.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- Have five GCSEs at Grade C or above to include Maths and English, or equivalent qualification.
- Plus at least two years’ relevant general administrative experience within a busy team environment.
- Experience of direct delivery of handling customer queries professionally and efficiently.
- Experience in using a range of computer packages including Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Ability to prioritise own work in order to meet deadlines.
- As part of the reference checking and vetting process for this position you will be requested to undertake a Basic AccessNI Disclosure. Having a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position.
- Vacancy ID
- 1789327
- Job ref.
- 37313
- Job Sector
- Customer Service and Call Centre,Secretarial and Administration
- Area
- Derry or Londonderry
- Location
- Derry/Londonderry
- Salary
- £13.69 per hour
- No. vacancies
- 1
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Weekly hours
- 37
- Published date
- 29/09/2026
- Closing date
- 29/10/2026
- Worktime
- Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm