Customer Service - Front of House

Join our friendly and supportive team as a Customer Service - Front of House. This key frontline role provides a professional point of contact for students, staff, and visitors, handling face-to-face, telephone, and email enquiries while ensuring high standards of customer care.

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Join our friendly and supportive team as a Customer Service - Front of House. This key frontline role provides a professional point of contact for students, staff, and visitors, handling face-to-face, telephone, and email enquiries while ensuring high standards of customer care.

Main Purpose of the Role:

To manage all incoming communications and provide excellent frontline support to both new and existing customers, representing the College with professionalism, courtesy, and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

  • Welcome visitors and provide courteous, professional assistance.
  • Handle incoming calls, emails, and messages promptly and accurately.
  • Maintain the College telephone system and report faults.
  • Record and manage enquiries, including College prospectus requests.
  • Keep accurate visitor logs, reception day books, and other records.
  • Ensure signing in/out procedures and College security measures are followed.
  • Support Health & Safety and safeguarding initiatives, promoting the welfare and wellbeing of students.
  • Participate in College CPD, events, and occasional evening or weekend duties.
  • Any other duties compatible with the role as required.

About You:

  • Experienced in a customer service or reception role.
  • Confident communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Comfortable using Microsoft Office and handling telephone enquiries.
  • Flexible, reliable, and able to work as part of a team.
  • Committed to safeguarding, equality, diversity, and inclusion.

 

The right candidate will have:

  • Holds GCSE English (or equivalent).
  • Demonstrates professionalism, initiative, and attention to detail.
  • Thrives in a busy, frontline environment, maintaining a positive, welcoming approach.
  • Can adapt to a variety of tasks and contribute to a supportive team environment.

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.