£21.34 per hour
Remote working
Monday - Friday - Full Time
Temporary - currently until Feb 2027
Tate are recruiting a Complaints Case Manager to join a local authority in Bristol. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced complaints professional to manage complex and escalated cases, support fair and timely resolutions, and help turn customer feedback into meaningful service improvements.
About the role
You will manage a personal caseload of non-statutory escalated complaints, Ombudsman enquiries and related work. You will coordinate detailed and complex cases, assess risk, meet relevant deadlines and ensure that customers and other stakeholders receive clear, appropriate and timely responses.
Key responsibilities
- Manage escalated complaints, comments, compliments and Ombudsman enquiries efficiently and in a customer-focused way.
- Assess complex cases for risk and coordinate input from relevant services and stakeholders.
- Build effective working relationships and clarify the roles, responsibilities and actions needed to achieve appropriate outcomes.
- Provide expert advice, guidance and support to colleagues on complaint handling.
- Identify themes and learning from complaints, recommending improvements to services and working practices.
- Contribute to improvement projects and workstreams, delivering agreed benefits and improving satisfaction with the complaints process.
About you
- Knowledge and experience of the principles and practice of customer care and complaints case management
- Knowledge of public service statutory/non-statutory complaints systems and procedures, and/or Local Government Ombudsman
- Experience of providing advice and guidance sessions and running training
You will be confident handling detailed and sensitive complaints, balancing customer needs with organisational and statutory responsibilities. You will bring sound judgement, strong relationship-management skills and the ability to communicate clearly with service users, families, carers, providers and colleagues, including when matters are complex or challenging.
Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.
Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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