Job description
About The Role
At HomeServe, were looking for proactive and organised individuals to join our Service Operations team as Dispatchers in Nottingham. This is a fantastic opportunity to build a rewarding career in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly enhance the customer experience.
Start Date: 13th July 2026
Salary: £28,650 (full time, 40 hours)
Fully flexible Hours: 7am - 9pm Monday - Sunday which includes weekends and Public Holidays. Rotas are published in advance to help with your work/life balance.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Our Deployment team is responsible for planning and dispatching all work across our Gas and Water Field Operations. The team ensures jobs are allocated efficiently, engineers are fully supported, and customers receive a safe, reliable, and seamless service.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Dispatchers will proactively monitor internal systems ensuring that all scheduled jobs are completed within the agreed appointment windows, any jeopardy jobs are managed and ensure timely communications to Customers where changes are required. Dispatchers also take personal ownership of the engineers' plans, ensuring that jobs are assigned in a way that maximises our level of customer service by making the most effective use of HomeServe's field resources. Ensuring our engineers always have access to the parts they need. Dispatchers will work closely with members of the contact centre and field management teams to ensure that any priority appointment requirements are accommodated, and effortless customer service is delivered.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
To contribute to the success of a dynamic Customer Delivery team who delivers a great service to Customers while achieving specified advice, service, quality, and other targets.
- Effectively use in-house systems to optimize in-day and future job deployments which enhance field/ engineer productivity and provide good customer outcomes
- Identify and raise any issues which might cause performance issues resulting in poor customer/business outcomes
- Appropriately utilise field resource levers used to ensure customer attendance within the agreed customer SLAs
- Responsible for encouraging and developing collaborative working with Field Engineers, Service Excellence Manager and Heads of Service Excellence to shape and influence behaviour and performance across the Service Operations team
- Ensure individual, team and field engineer performance are optimised
- Accountable for the achievement of individual KPIs which drive team, departmental and field KPIs
- Ensure regulatory compliance is met in line with business and FCA requirements.
- Continuously maintain competence and develop skills, follow Best Practice, and adhere to operation processes to achieve individual, team and business KPIs
- Respond to and support Transformation projects as required ensuring they are fully embraced
- Always safeguard sensitive customer information and actively support HomeServe as a trustworthy, dependable organisation
- Comply with all legal and statutory requirements applicable, including but not exclusively legislation, data protection, health and safety and corporate governance
About The Candidate
Who are HomeServe looking for?
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following knowledge, skills, and attributes:
Essential
- Effective communication, negotiating and influencing skills to maximise deployment opportunities
- Attention to detail
- Elevated level of commitment to customer service
- Confident in dealing with customers and conflict handling
- Ability to take ownership of issues to resolution
- Good decision making
- Computer literate
- Ability to interpret Management Information
- Elevated level of analytical skills
Desirable
- Experience of operating within field dispatch/planning environment
- Knowledge of HML products and services
- Fully conversant with HML systems and processes
- Knowledge of UK geography
What happens next?
If you are successful at CV screening stage, our interviews are due to take place from 10th June 2026 with training for successful applications commencing on the 13th July 2026.
Extra information
- Status
- Closed
- Education Level
- Secondary School
- Location
- Bulwell
- Type of Contract
- Full-time jobs
- Salary indication
- £28,000 Per Month
- Profession type
- Customer Service
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- No
- Cover Letter Required
- No
- Languages
- English
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