Bilingual Customer Service Representative

**Classes starting in November 2024**

For over 75 years, Medavie Blue Cross has been a leading health and wellness partner for individuals, employers and governments across Canada. As a not-for-profit organization, we proudly invest in communities to help address some of Canada’s most pressing health care challenges. We are one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Life & Health Insurer of the Year for 2021 and an Imagine Canada Caring Company.

Our 2,400 professionals work across six provinces, united by our shared values of being caring, accountable, responsible, innovative and community-minded. We’re committed to ensuring our employees thrive in our award-winning, collaborative culture focused on ensuring health, wellness, and personal and professional growth through a variety of programs and support across our organization.
Together with Medavie Health Services, we are part of Medavie — a national health solutions partner with over 8,250 employees. Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of Canadians.

**Job Title**:

- Bilingual Customer Service Representative**Department**:

- Federal Contact Centre**Competition**:

- 87259
- **Internal/External**:

- Internal/External**Employment Type**:

- Permanent Full Time**Location**:

- Atlantic Provinces and Ontario (Remote and Onsite available)**Salary**:

- Competitive Compensation**Reports To**:

- Team Leader**Motivated by helping others?**

In this role you will provide support and service to our members where you will have the opportunity to effectively problem solve and contribute positively to a team environment. Your objective in this role is to ensure that the person making the inquiry receives the highest level of customer service possible.

Far from your typical contact center experience - we have some of the highest employee satisfaction scores in the whole company.

**We offer**:

- Comprehensive health and dental plan that is 100% employer paid effective on your first day
- Monday to Friday shifts / No overnights / No weekends
- We offer an extensive virtual paid training program, ensuring you are prepared to hit the floor and take calls.
- Opportunities for career development and advancement
- Emphasis on work life balance, providing wellness benefits, health resources and fitness center discounts
- We will send you the necessary equipment you will need to get started

**Superstars on our team**:

- Respond to 75-100 calls per day
- Respond to inquiries related to health care benefits, program eligibility, payment-related information, and other general inquiries;
- Quickly assess and resolve any challenging situations and provide effective strategies, aiming for a first
- call resolution
- Are committed to excellence in customer service; providing the highest level of dedication in all service areas.

**What you need to succeed**:

- The ability to work varying shifts between 7am - 10pm Monday to Friday
- You like helping people - this is non-negotiable;
- Whatever it takes attitude, you like a new challenge every day;
- You have training and education and/or relevant working experience in customer service or health and at least a high school diploma;
- Ensure you are able to concentrate, have high attention to detail and sit while using a computer and on a head-set for prolonged periods of time
- Those who have 2+ years with Contact Centre experience and enjoy this industry have proven to be very successful in our environment;
- You can handle the good and challenging calls;
- You are a problem-solving master, you understand the callers needs and learn quickly how to get the best results in any environment.
- Must be fluently Bilingual (English and French) both written and verbal in-order to provide services to our customers and communicate with internal stakeholders in both official languages.

**Security Clearance**:

- In conjunction with our contract with the Federal Government, you will be required to have Reliability Status Clearance (Enhanced Level B) through the Public Works and Government Services Canada Department prior to your first day. This includes; Fingerprinting, Criminal Record Check and Credit Check.

**Remote work requirements**:

- Based on the types of data CSRs have access to, there are different physical security requirements for home office setup including:

- Private working area that has a locked door, secure locked perimeter doors (patio doors require a locking bar or pin), an approved locking file cabinet and a locked office space in a controllable environment.
- Employees must connect to an approved home network (we would either provide or specify the acceptable routers/connectivity equipment).
- Work area must be private and free of household noise.
- Location of the work area mitigates risks to privacy; for example, that information on the monitor can only be viewed by the employee. The use of privacy screens is required if the home is shared with o