Job description

Part time in our Hamilton office

£22,000 full time equivilent - salary is pro-rated dependent on hours worked

first direct is a modern fast paced customer service environment, change is a way of life and you’ll be in the thick of it helping first direct to drive forward its ambition to really challenge the  challengers. On a day to day basis you’ll be speaking to our customers to help them navigate in this new world, it’s not for the faint hearted. But if you thrive on the challenge and you’re at your best when you’re busy, we are the place for you! You will speak to upwards of 60 customers per day.

Let us tell you a secret about first direct’s award-winning customer service. It doesn’t grow on trees and we don’t have any superheroes. Amazing customer service comes from our people, but they’re not just any people, they are people people. They’re passionate, dedicated, and ready to go above and beyond always keeping our customers at the heart of everything they do, our personality shines through every time we connect with our customers. We love talking about our great digital channels and how easy banking with first direct is so if this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you

We have some cracking benefits and perks, including:

• Flexible working opportunities
• On-site gym, personal trainer, virtual yoga and regular health and wellbeing events
• Holidays will be 231 hours per annum based on a 35 hour week
• Opportunity to take up to 2 paid community days each year
• Free parking
• Subsidised on-site nursery
• Market leading healthcare for you and your family
• Competitive maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoptive leave policies
• Development programmes & career progression.
• Comprehensive training programme backed up by full on the job support for the first 2 weeks

Qualifications - External

We believe that our workforce should reflect our customer base therefore we want to build a team that is as diverse as our customers. We recognise the value that diversity brings in our business, recruiting the person who is most suited to the job is our aim and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, age, disability, gender, sexual orientations, nationalities and religions (we have a prayer room on site). We want everyone to bring their true selves to first direct!

Shift Patterns:

Friday 0900 to 1500 and both Saturday/Sunday – 0900 to 16.30 

Requirements

first direct is part of HSBC group.

We are a hybrid working organisation who offer a mix of office and home working. All of our people do come into the office periodically to meet your colleagues and sample the culture that makes first direct so unique.

 Your first weeks of training will be undertaken remotely, followed by a period where you will be in the office so that we can fully support you getting up to speed with the role whilst taking your first customer calls.

Once you have settled in and completed your training, we will work with you to confirm what your hybrid working pattern looks like.

All our job vacancies are posted on the HSBC Group careers site

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.          

As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by local  law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Within the work place you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.  HSBC has in place processes in order to avoid nepotism, which means to avoid creating circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process