BeWell Receptionist

As a Be Well Receptionist, you will work within the various leisure facilities across the Borough. You will act as the first point of contact for service users and will support customers with range of enquiries including bookings for swimming lessons and Gym session and promote the benefits of the Be Well membership packages.

You will provide a comprehensive, efficient, and effective telephony, online and face to face customer advisory service by acting as the first point of contact to the leisure centre. You will use effective communication skills to actively engage and provide professional responses to resolve customer queries., The Be Well team are committed to support the health and wellbeing of our residents across the Wigan Borough. Whether this be supporting our youngest residents embark on their first swimming lesson or supporting individuals and community groups with existing exercise and wellbeing programmes. We pride ourselves on offering an extensive and diverse range of physical activities to support our residents to encourage everyone to get active and achieve a healthier lifestyle and increase sport participation.

The ideal person for this role needs to be able to plan, work and manage their time efficient and effectively demonstrating accurate and concise work. You must have good organisational, verbal and written communication skills and use your own initiative and work flexible as part of a team. A good knowledge of computer systems and experience in inputting and extracting data such as databases, spreadsheets, word-processing packages, and email is key to the receptionist role. The role at times is demanding so experience in working in a customer service environment is beneficial and you can identify problems and seek effective solutions.

Wigan Council has been voted 'Overall Council of the Year' at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

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