Customer Service Practitioner (Level 2 Apprenticeship)

Your actions will influence the customer experience and their satisfaction with your organisation. You will demonstrate excellent customer service skills and behaviours as well as product and/or service knowledge when delivering to your customers. 

You provide service in line with the organisation’s customer service standards and strategy and within appropriate regulatory requirements. Your customer interactions may cover a wide range of situations and can include; face-to-face, telephone, post, email, text and social media.

The role of a customer service practitioner is to deliver high quality products and services to the customers of their organisation. Your core responsibility will be to provide a high quality service to customers which will be delivered from the workplace, digitally, or through going out into the customer’s own locality. These may be one-off or routine contacts and include dealing with orders, payments, offering advice, guidance and support, meet-and-greet, sales, fixing problems, after care, service recovery or gaining insight through measuring customer satisfaction. You may be the first point of contact and work in any sector or organisation type.

Entry requirements

• Two GCSEs at grade 4/C or higher. It is desirable that you have English and maths at grade 4/C or above but this is not essential as Functional Skills are delivered as part of the apprenticeship programme
• You will need to find an employer to employ you as an apprentice.

Course content
You will need to show competance in the following areas.

Knowledge

• Knowing your customers
• Understanding the organisation
• Meeting regulations and legislation
• Systems and resources
• Your role and responsibility
• Customer experience
• Product and service knowledge

Skills

• Interpersonal skills
• Communication
• Influencing skills
• Personal organisation
• Dealing with customer conflict and challenge

Behaviours

• Developing self
• Being open to feedback
• Team working
• Equality
• Presentation
• Right first time

English and maths

• English and maths qualifications are a requirement for most jobs and it is important that you are able to demonstrate your ability in these areas. If you do not already have a grade C or above(4-9) in GCSE English and maths you will automatically undertake further study in these subjects as part of your apprenticeship.

You will be assessed through on programme assessment of knowledge, skills and behaviour outcomes on-route to final synoptic end point assessment consisting of:

• Apprenticeship Showcase
• Practical Observation
• Professional Discussion

You will be required to provide paper, writing materials, and memory stick.

You will study in your workplace and attend classes at Barnsley College if required.
Completion of this apprenticeship will lead to eligibility to join the Institute of Customer Service as an Individual member at professional level. You could progress onto a Level 3 Customer Service or Team Leader/Supervisor Advanced Apprenticeship.