Advice Line Training
Training for all Advice Line volunteers. Please complete this course before taking your first calls.
How it started
What the Advice Line can help with
Opening hours and phone number
Call statistics and queuing
What you'll need
Taking calls
Active listening
Free Legal Advice with Working Families
Legal referrals
Valla
Taking care of yourself
How do we receive calls?
Setting up your Virtual Call Centre (VCC) account
How to make yourself available to receive calls
How to take a phone call
How to make a call
VCC Softphone
Which Softphone option to use?
Using the browser phone
Using the App phone
Recorded VCC demo with Call Handling
VCC Summary
How we log calls to the Advice Line
Logging a call using the Beacon Call Log form
Viewing Beacon records
Top tips
Download your Advice Line Toolkit
Test your knowledge
Next steps