Are you passionate about delivering exceptional customer service, connecting with people, and making a real difference?
Join Our Team as a Contact Centre Advisor!
At the British Heart Foundation (BHF), we believe every interaction matters. We're looking for dedicated Contact Centre Advisors to join our team and help us build long-term relationships with our customers, supporters, and fundraisers.
Role Overview
As a Contact Centre Advisor, you'll be the first point of contact, providing accurate, effective, and friendly responses and information. You'll use your active listening, empathy, and problem-solving skills to guarantee a seamless and positive customer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responding to and resolving inbound queries via telephone, email, social media, and live web chat.
- Providing information, taking donations, and resolving customer queries and feedback
- Using our ticketing and CRM systems to update customer records.
- Enhancing satisfaction and relationships through stewardship activities.
We are currently recruiting two customer service advisors one a permanent and one 6 month fixed term basis.
What Makes You Great for This Role?
Your ability to connect with people is your superpower. You're a quick learner, curious, and can build strong relationships quickly. You get to the heart of the matter, listen, ask insightful questions, and provide the right help and build relationships with our customers and supporters.
Your empathy and enthusiasm shine through in your strong communication skills, turning every interaction into a delightful experience for our customers. You're resilient, perform well under pressure, and make customers feel genuinely valued. Comfortable with technology, you have experience in Microsoft Office, data entry, and databases.
Your proactive, positive “can do” attitude means that you can solve a variety of queries, giving customers the time they need. Driven by customer satisfaction, you transform challenges into opportunities, creating unforgettable experiences. Your strong administrative and time management skills help you prioritise and manage your workload effectively.
Benefits and development
We offer our staff generous benefits, such as:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Private medical insurance, dental health cover, and money towards gym membership.
- Pension scheme with employer contribution up to 10%.
- Full pay for 12 weeks for family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
- Life assurance.
- Extra paid leave of up to 10 days to support colleagues who may need more time off work to look after themselves or others close to them.
To find out more about our benefits you can download the Benefits document at the bottom of this page or check out our Benefits and Development pages.
Working Arrangements
- Working Hours: Normal working hours are 09:00am to 05:00pm, Monday to Friday, with flexibility to work 11:00am - 07:00pm and some Saturdays during peak event season.
- Hybrid Role: A week typically involves 1 day a week (usually Wednesdays) in our Birmingham office (B37 7YE) to collaborate with your team and other 4 days will be working remotely at home.
Interview Process
Our interview process involves two stages:
- Initial Stage: One-way video interview, allowing you to record responses to pre-set questions at your convenience, showcasing your personality, skills, and experiences.
- Second Stage: Assessment Centres will be held in person at our Birmingham Office (B37 7YE) on 24 - 26 March 2026. Please note that these dates are fixed and cannot be changed
Start Date & Induction:
All new team members will start on 29 April 2026 and this date is not negotiable. The induction training will last for four weeks, during which you will be required to come into the office more frequently. After completing the training, your office attendance will reduce to once a week.
Belonging
We celebrate and value the diversity of the communities we serve, recognising that embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and drives innovation. By fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and supported, we are better equipped to achieve our mission of helping people have a healthier heart for longer.
To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
Marie Curie is the UK’s leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they’re likely to die from.
Job DescriptionJoin Us in Making a Difference at Marie Curie
As a Community Fundraiser, you’ll be at the heart of building and championing our volunteer community. You will work closely with local fundraising and volunteering groups, inspiring them to create meaningful activities that raise vital funds for Marie Curie. Reporting to the Deputy Head of Region, you’ll collaborate with passionate fundraising colleagues to grow and energise our volunteer network—helping new and existing volunteers feel empowered, supported, and excited to make a difference in their communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Grow, recruit and support volunteering and fundraising groups, building trusted relationships and nurturing an engaged, motivated volunteer community.
- Lead local delivery of flagship campaigns, including The Great Daffodil Appeal, working alongside volunteers to maximise reach and impact.
- Champion volunteering in your area, increasing community involvement through active outreach, events, and relationship-building.
- Collaborate across teams and with external partners, ensuring volunteers have what they need to thrive and succeed.
- Maintain accurate records and uphold excellent fundraising practice, safeguarding volunteers and supporters.
- Use social media and local communication channels to celebrate volunteer achievements and inspire new supporters to get involved.
What You’ll Need
- Proven experience working with volunteers including recruitment, engagement, and ongoing support.
- Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to inspire confidence in individuals and groups.
- Strong organisational skills, including planning, prioritising and managing budgets.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and experience using databases or CRM systems.
- A full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel across the region, including some evenings and weekends.
To view the job description, please click .
Application Process
As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role. Please cite your preferred location.
Close date for applications: Thursday 5th March 2026
Salary: £27,450 - £30,500
Contract: Full time hours (35 hours per week)
Based: Home-based role with occasional office visits(once per week) and county travel (once per month) frequency will vary based on business needs
Benefits you’ll LOVE:
- Flexible working. We’re happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
- 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
- Continuous professional development opportunities.
- Industry-leading training programmes
- Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
- Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
- Access to Blue Light Card membership
- Subsidised Eye Care
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments
Additional InformationFor more information or an informal chat please contact Thomas Howell on [email protected]
At Marie Curie, our values are central to everything we do. They guide how we care for people, how we work together, and how we make decisions every day. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe for everyone — staff and volunteers alike — supportive, inclusive and rewarding. We take stringent steps to ensure that anyone who joins our organisation are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. We actively consider our impact on the planet, embedding sustainability into everyday decisions to create a lasting, positive difference for the individuals we care for and the world we share.
We believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive and fulfil their potential. Marie Curie is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, recognising both the social justice imperative and the strength a diverse workforce brings. We actively encourage applications from people of all cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. If you require any support, please contact us at .
Every application we receive is personally reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team, and in return, we ask that your application authentically reflects you — your experience, perspective and voice.
