Join our Specialist Customer Support Consultant team and make a meaningful difference to customers when they need us most. In this role, you'll support customers experiencing complex life events or circumstances that may impact their ability to manage their finances, using your judgement, problem-solving skills and customer-focused approach to identify the right solutions. Working across telephony and administrative channels, you'll collaborate with colleagues across the bank and external partner organisations to provide tailored support and deliver positive customer outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to develop specialist expertise in a rewarding role where your knowledge and decisions can have a genuine impact on customers' lives.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll be located at our nearest regional office or hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration and in some locations you’ll be expected to spend at least two days a week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, in the office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.
Virgin Money is now part of Nationwide
Nationwide acquired Virgin Money in October 2024. Virgin Money continues to serve customers on the high street, and there will be a phased and considered integration over the coming years.
You’ll be employed by Nationwide from day one, delivering real impact and benefitting from a highly competitive range of benefits. We’re a workplace where you’re rewarded, recognised and celebrated.
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
As a Specialist Customer Support Consultant within our Specialist Support Team, you will play a vital role in helping customers navigate complex life events and challenging circumstances. Using your expertise, judgement, and problem-solving skills, you will identify the most appropriate support solutions to ensure customers receive the help they need.
Managing inbound customer calls, you will take time to understand each customer's individual situation, asking insightful questions and actively listening to identify the right course of action. You will assess customer needs, make informed decisions, and coordinate specialist support where required, working closely with internal teams and external organisations.
This is a role where you can make a real difference. You will support customers through a wide range of circumstances, helping them access tailored solutions while delivering a positive and compassionate experience.
Working collaboratively with colleagues, solicitors, debt charities, and other external partners, you will ensure customers receive comprehensive and timely support. You'll also contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by sharing best practice and helping to develop specialist knowledge across the team.
You will have:
- Experience of working with vulnerable customers with empathy and compassion, showing resilience and emotional intelligence when handling difficult conversations
- A proven track record of telephony experience, handling complex situations with a calm, professional manner, remaining customer-focused always
- Examples of where you used active listening and strong communication skills to ensure the best outcome for a customer or client
- Worked with other teams to support customers, evidencing good decision-making skills and problem solving to identify tailored solutions
- Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:
Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes
You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
25 days holiday, pro rata
Access to private medical insurance
A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
Access to an annual performance-related bonus
Training and development to help you progress your career
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
We forge our own path at Nationwide.
As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.
If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.
At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.
We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.
If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
Once we’ve received your application successfully, we will invite you to the first stage; our online assessments!
Within a few hours you’ll receive a link to your unique candidate hub – here we’ll ask you to complete some online assessments within 48 hours of applying; these include a situational judgement test, checking and numerical assessments – all focussed around what’s important to us in a member facing role at Nationwide.
In your candidate hub you’ll also be able to get hints and tips and watch videos from our colleagues giving you a really good idea of what it’s like to work here at Nationwide.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
If successful in the role, your job title on internal systems will be Customer Support Associate.
