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Complaints Investigator

  • Public sector
  • 13/03/2025
  • £28,312.00 - £34,361.00 /yearly
  • Full Time & Permanent
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Job Overview

Job Type

Full Time & Permanent

Salary

£28,312 - £34,361 yearly

Date Posted:

13/03/2025

Expiration date:

26/03/2025

Additional Detail

Job ID

22771

Work Location

Remote and/or Onsite

Job Description

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going.

Our Complaints Investigators play a critical role in helping deliver justice. You will be responsible for making sure your team deliver excellent administrative support and customer service to service users and management.

About us

 Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)  the administration of criminal, civil and family Courts and Tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues within HMCTS, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. 

Our National Services (NS) Directorate manage centralised administrative and contact functions (telephone helpdesks) in HMCTS and were looking for individuals who are committed to public service and making a difference in peoples lives to deliver justice. If you are interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.   

Your role

Working in the Regional Support Unit (RSU), you will be part of a dynamic team that carries out integral support functions for the region. The work can often be fast paced, require initiative and problem solving, and we are the point of contact for a wide range of work covering all jurisdictions and disciplines. Our operations colleagues and leaders rely on the RSU for support and assurance enabling their teams to focus on their core operational objectives.

Reporting to the Complaints Manager, youll be responsible for dealing with all complaints escalated to your team from first point of contact. The team focus on investigating complaints and measuring action, or lack of it, against HMCTS standards and user expectations, feed into analysis of trends in complaints and user feedback and determine appropriate compensation. The role will focus on the short, medium and long term needs of National Services and other parts of HMCTS.

Your skills and experience

  • Experience of working in a customer service environment requiring engagement and negotiation with people and working with complex written material (desirable).
  • Experience of complaint handling - to be able to easily understand the circumstances of when a user may express dissatisfaction with our service (desirable).
  • IT proficient with the ability to learn and adapt to different technologies and software packages.
  • Excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills

For a full job description, please read supporting document included before applying.

Further details

New recruits to the Civil Service joining  are expected to join at the band minimum.

Non-contractual hybrid working may be available. Hybrid working arrangements will be determined by the business and will only be available when it has been established that delivering the service from home can be done effectively. We may not be able to facilitate requests for a particular work from home/working in the office schedule.

Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. HMCTS welcomes part-time, flexible, and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs and are agreed prior to appointment. All applications for part-time, flexible, and job-sharing working patterns will be considered  the MoJs Flexible Working policy.

Occasional travel to other courts

For this post, occasional travel to our National Services sites will be .

Application Process:

Please note, dependent on volumes of applications received, the sift stage may be based solely on your Experience answer.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Scenario based: Drafting and presenting a complaint response.
Alongside your salary of £28,312, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £8,201 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Access to learning and development
  • A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
  • A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
  • Annual Leave
  • Public Holidays
  • Season Ticket Advance



For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • 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)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
  • Email : [email protected]
  • Telephone : 0345 241 5359

Recruitment team

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commissions Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL ([email protected]) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

 
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