Customer Services Call Handler - 12 Months Secondment Role in Coventry

We are currently recruiting a 12 months fixed term role for a Customer Services Call Handler based within the National Business Centre within Coventry. We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment, and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures.

These vacancies are part of a team based from our National Business Centre office within Coventry. We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.

We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us. As a Customer Services Call Handler you will help to promote a culture of excellent customer service, which will enhance the service user’s experience of Cafcass and present a positive and service user-focused image at all times.

Should you join us your tasks will include:

• Providing a responsive, effective service responding to callers with routine enquiries coming into the Call Centre including service users, courts, legal representatives and other professionals and local agencies, ensuring all calls are responded to or re-directed, as necessary.
• Validating known information and updating data onto any database or other electronic retention and retrieval system keeping records as up to date as possible at all stages.
• Alerting local teams to changes to data or new information provided during calls.
• Ensuring all information is accurate and, where inaccurate data is provided, chase up and re-enter.
• Ensuring compliance with data protection legislation and information assurance policy and procedures at all times.

This is a key role in helping to ensure the smooth running of our services and so here are some things we look for in suitable candidates:

• Good customer service and care skills, with a commitment to continuously improving the service user experience.
• Excellent oral communication skills including excellent listening skills including the ability to adapt oral and written communication methods and styles to suit the audience.
• Excellent written communication skills including a good working knowledge and comprehension of written English, in particular grammar.
• The ability to deal with sensitive matters and an understanding of confidentiality issues including data protection.
• The ability to deal tactfully and sensitively with people.

Next steps / timelines: If and when you are ready to apply, our application process is straightforward and quick to complete. You don’t need to complete your application in a single visit, you can start it and come back and amend your responses / update your CV, just make sure you come back before the closing date to submit.

Closing date: 18 January 2026

Final Interview: 26 January 2026

We understand that starting a new role is a big decision, and you may require further information before applying. You can find out more about the role in the Job Description and there is a wealth of information about Cafcass on our Cafcass Careers page.

If you wish to speak with a member of the team for more specific information you can contact Narinder Kaur from our HR Resourcing team, providing your contact information and best times / methods to get hold of you. Whilst we will always try and respond a.s.a.p. we wouldn’t want you to miss the closing date before we are able to.

Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed.