We have an excellent opportunity for a Customer Relations Officer to join our Corporate Complaints Team here at Wokingham Borough Council, on a full-time, 12-month fixed term contract.

As the Customer Relations Officer, you will coordinate, triage and manage all highways and transport enquiries and complaints, ensuring residents receive a timely, empathetic and high-quality response. You will act as a key point of contact between customers, operational teams and senior managers, providing clear oversight of issues, maintaining strong complaint governance, and using insight from customer feedback to drive continuous service improvement.

You will role model best practice in complaints handling and customer care across the service, supporting colleagues with advice, guidance and training where required. Through robust performance reporting and root cause analysis, you will help senior leaders understand emerging themes, identify opportunities for improvement and embed learning that enhances the customer experience.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a central role in shaping how Highways and Transport engage with residents, delivering tangible improvements in service quality and ensuring customer voice is at the forefront of decision-making.

⭐Staff Benefits⭐

Not only is this an excellent opportunity, but it’s a fantastic time to join our team. You will receive an extensive range of employee benefits including:

⭐Generous Annual Leave – 27 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years of continued local government service), plus bank holidays

⭐Local Government Pension Scheme 

⭐GP Helpline - Available 7 days a week

⭐Employee Assistance Programme - Including a 24/7 Your Care Helpline

⭐Free Eye Tests and Flu Vaccines

⭐Free Onsite Gym - Located at Shute End Offices, Wokingham

⭐Salary Sacrifice Schemes - Including Car and Cycle to Work schemes

⭐Local & Lifestyle Discounts - Save on shopping, entertainment, dining out & more

⭐Move through Menopause Course

⭐Sports & Social Group Activities – Including running, football, cricket & more

⭐Learning & Development Opportunities

⭐Employee Networks

⭐And more!

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, triage, and report on all aspects of Highways and Transport enquiries and complaints.
• Role model and promote best practice in complaints handling and Customer Excellence across the Council.
• Support and provide performance reporting to support Senior Managers in Place and Growth, highlighting areas for potential service improvements
• Provide general support and advice to teams including Senior Managers on complaints procedures, including best practice on handling, and responding to complaints.
• Arrange or provide training on complaints handling where required.
• Engage with residents to discuss and clarify complaints, making sure they are supported throughout the process.
• Provide performance reports on complaints including contribution to Annual and Quarterly reports, ensuring root causes of complaints, learning and areas for improvement are identified.

Candidate Requirements:

• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills                              
• Experience of supporting customers within a front facing service, with a drive for customer excellence
• Ability to analyse data and communicate to groups, including recommending appropriate action
• Ability to use customer feedback and outcomes from complaints to provide intelligence and insight to inform improvements in customer experience

Our Area:

Wokingham Borough is set in the heart of Berkshire with excellent transport links to Reading and central London. Our area comprises of a vibrant and historical market town, attractive villages, and miles of beautiful countryside. 

We’re home to a range of high performing schools, a host of international businesses and an incredible community. The borough has a strong local economy with accelerated growth, a range of excellent public facilities and low levels of crime, offering an exceptional quality of life. 

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Alternatively, to arrange an informal discussion about the role, contact Jo Hinton via email Jo.Hinton@wokingham.gov.uk (Strictly no agencies).

Closing date: Tuesday 17^th February 2026 at 11pm

Interview date: W/C 23^rd February 2026

Whilst this is a fixed term contract appointment, for anyone already employed by Wokingham Borough Council this would be classed as a secondment if successful.  Therefore, the usual permission requests for secondments apply and you must speak to your line manager in the first instance before applying.

If your application is shortlisted for an interview, you will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage. Additionally, successful candidates must present proof upon receiving a job offer.

Please note that all offers are conditional and subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

Please be aware that we will be reviewing the applications we receive on a daily basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified.

Wokingham Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, other workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to every applicant individually.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the application closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

We appreciate your interest in joining Wokingham Borough Council and thank you for taking the time to apply.

Wokingham is an equal opportunities employer.